AI is a gift for the Chinese. Even if their DRAM and AI training chips and GPUs aren't top tier, because of AI making everything else unobtainable, people will buy it.

The high prices mean they don't have to have small margins either, so there is more to invest back into R&D.

In the UK it's a mixture of Russia bots and the far right, mostly.

If only adults would. What we really need is a ban on Facebook. It's the adults on there that need protecting.

Thanks. Column mode is really useful too.

This is actually a very important point, because an argument that local Google subsidiaries frequently use to try to get out of lawsuits is that they aren't the ones providing the service, and the litigant must instead sue their US parent company (not the Irish one for some strange reason). It is of course much harder and much more expensive to sue a US company, and to enforce any judgements.

EU courts don't fall for it. Structuring their international corporation to make suing them harder doesn't fly. Their local subsidiaries are substantial and considered to be representatives of the parent corporation, for the purposes of legal challenge.

"Users have a choice" is not much of a defence in the EU, if your company also boasts about it's dominant market share.

The basic principle is that the bigger and more dominant a company is, the greater its responsibility to not distort the market. They can compete fairly.

Unfortunately the website doesn't show the edit menu, but where most alternatives are lacking is the extensive tools for manipulating text that Notepad++ has. When you need to wrangle some text, like say you copied a table out of a PDF and need to bash it into the shape of a set of C macros, it's very good. Does Geany have that?

The other really nice thing about Notepad++ is that you never lose anything. If you create a new document it saves it internally, even before you save it to a specific file. If you make some edits to a file they are cached on disk. It's saved me a few times when a computer has failed to resume from hibernation, or a dodgy Intel GPU driver has crashed.

It's also doable as a DIY job. Some cars are easier than others, but for example a Leaf can be done on your driveway if needed (it's easier with a lift). You can even do cell replacement in Leaf batteries yourself. There are companies that make brand new replacement battery packs too, but the issue is always the shipping cost due to their size and weight. That should improve over time.

There is also Nio that do battery swaps. Just roll up to the station, the car parks itself and 4 minutes later your have a fresh battery swapped in at 90% SoC. It's actually faster than pumping fossil fuels into an ICE vehicle, and you don't even have to get out of the car or pull out your credit card.

No, that's not how it works.

Norway is a good source of data for your use case. Very cold for much of the year, months of sub zero temperatures, partly in the Arctic Circle. Large country too, plenty of long distance travel to be done.

You would typically be looking at over 90% capacity left at 5 years. It depends on how the manufacturer measures it, e.g. Kia and Hyundai state the usable capacity so often are still at 100% after 5 years because any degradation was within the extra "buffer" they give you and doesn't have any effect on usable range.

Also you will never have to wait an hour to charge. Even a decade back that was unrealistic, but these days it's more like 15-20 minutes maximum and some cars are under 4 minutes now. Older used EVs like those aforementioned Kia and Hyundai ones might be half an hour as they charge more slowly, but also keep in mind this will be after 4-5 hours of driving so you will need that time for a comfort break anyway.

I've been accused of being an LLM a few times already. It's often when people see a certain phrase used that they associate with AI.

Resolve only officially supports a couple of Linux distros, but there are ways to make it work on others, e.g. https://github.com/zelikos/dav...

Beyond that some codecs are missing for opening and exporting to some common video formats. Again, you can work around it.

I use Resolve myself and it's good once you learn how to use it a little.

Directory Opus. It mostly replaces Windows Explorer with an unrivalled file manager interface. There is nothing like it on Linux, and nothing else really like it anywhere.

I've been using it since it was an Amiga app.

AI has really helped people switch to Linux. Instead of dismissive or outright rude responses to Linux questions from the "community", people can ask an LLM and get an actually helpful answer that is applicable to the current version of their distro.

This was mentioned at the wrap-up for the most recent Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge. One guy said that if he googled some issue and the first few results were Reddit, he just asked an LLM instead and it usually fixed his problem with minimal hassle.

Although I'm not a beginner I've found this to be true with Raspberry Pi OS too. As an example, try googling for how to do something that should be extremely simple in C: control some GPIOs. There are at least three different APIs, and all but one are deprecated, and most of the forum/blog posts are out of date. The RPi forum responses are often deeply unhelpful too.

European commercial customers can reduce the cost by being consistent too. High power factor, constant load. They can also reduce costs by load shifting.

They have then benefit of 230V as well.

France built a lot of nuclear, but it isn't really sustainable, or all that clean. Their choice now is throw more money at it, or take the cheaper route with renewables. They will build at least some new nuclear, to keep their supply of weapons grade material and expertise up.

At the time it was a reasonable decision. Nuclear was promised to deliver much, and to be fair looked like it might. But now we have the benefit of hindsight, and more important we have better alternatives.