PRC's NEV industry is only slightly younger than Tesla, and has been a "strategic sector" in CCP parlance almost from the start.

You have no idea what you're talking about. Ask your favorite LLM to tell you about history of Chinese NEV industry.

You're almost certainly right, because we don't know how current teenagers are going to turn out as young adults.

Frankly only one thing is all but certain. They won't be like us. They'll be something different, something new, something that is a reflection of the world they were raised in.

And that is nothing like worlds that boomers, x'ers, millenials or zoomers were raised in.

Unfortunately sensitivity to degradation is an inherent disadvantage of density when it comes to magnetic and flash memory mediums beyond a certain point.

It's like running an MLC SSD in SLC mode. It will remain readable far longer after being disconnected from power, because there's a much wider tolerance for voltage shift.

The actual reality.

The reason why their cars don't last is the reason why their sales are high. They're selling cheap cars that last less than a decade in normal use, and then they get to sell another new car.

Cheaper Chinese models intended for domestic market often don't even have galvanic rust protection. They become rust buckets in just a few years in wet regions. And almost all of PRC's rich areas are in fact wet.

But even for more expensive models, UV exposure makes plastic come apart after a few years, and breakages begin around the same time. You're supposed to buy a new one at this point. In PRC, there's a reason why there are new EVs and older ICE cars, but there are almost no old EVs other than Teslas. They don't last, because they're not supposed to last. They're supposed to break down and look like shit after a few years, so you get a new one.

I don't think you want to make any claims about UK trains being "proper".

At least not until you try them out.

This is on the level of saying that "US projects housing is really nice for aspiring 19 year old white college girls to live in". Don't say this nonsense until you see what you're talking about.

The hardware running water/sewer systems, electrical grids, irrigation dams and the like are generally SCADA systems on their own air-gapped network. Generally they're required to be air-gapped by law if they're considered critical infrastructure. **HOWEVER** the organization that runs them is more frequently targeted through its back office systems, which can still be pretty disastrous . Imagine if your electrical utility's phone and/or email system is taken down and they have no way to dispatch service trucks or buy/sell power.

Because retail stores are cheap. They don't want to pay to hire someone competent to do it, much less pay them enough to maintain them in the position.

Service, maintenance and monitoring.

And how many people out there "have a clue" these days? Do you know anyone under 30 who has ever replaced parts in their computers, or repaired their own cars? We're becoming a society of hardware illiterates. If it doesn't have a GUI the majority of the people have no clue that it even **CAN** be accessed.

Service on the device. If a company charges $150/hr for a service tech would you rather they make changes remotely or charge you an additional two hours minimum for travel (for each site)?

You've never worked in retail, I take it. Stuff gets moved around all the time, what's in the cabinet next week may be bags of ice or frozen salmon.

Service is the big need, I've covered it a bit in https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

Service. Testing. Troubleshooting. Dispatching a service tech is very expensive, to the tune of $150/hr or more from the moment they leave the shop. If they unexpectedly need a part they then have to charge for going to get it. If they can access the system remotely and know they need Part #1234 and Filter #5678 before they leave the shop it's a huge saving for both the customer and the service company. If meat rather than milk is going to be stored in the unit the service company can make the change and test that it's working correctly. Plenty of other reasons, mostly due to the necessity to service them.

I worked in the Physical Security world for 17 years (key cards, cameras, alarms, that stuff). Default passwords are generally a necessity, since you need to be able to set the equipment up the first time. If the manufacturer doesn't require it to be changed after initial config that's an issue, but even if they do require it there's almost never any requirement that the installers **NOT** change it back to the default and that's what will be done more frequently than not. The reason is for ease of service, there's no guarantee that the guy who installed it today will be the same one who services it when it breaks or needs maintenance next year. Not that I'm saying that this is good practice, just that it's common.

Even more common in systems that allow secondary user accounts to be created (not all do, even with security equipment, and many building management systems don't) is to create one login to be used across all customers of the installation/service company. I could have logged in with God-like permissions in any installation in North America that was set up and/or serviced by the second-largest security company in the US, because we had their service account information. My company originally did that, until I instituted custom logins for all our customers and stored them in a Keepass database on the network. Our salescritters used that as a selling point, frequently after demonstrating how we could log into our competitions' installs.

Never updating the system software is more common than not, no one wants to take their core systems down for an upgrade unless there is critical new functionality or reliability being added, and there's always the risk of a catastrophic failure. In 2012 I updated the Lenel system at our local Coast Guard base from NT4.0 on SQL 2000, and then it was only because the hard drive on the server was spitting out errors.

Check your company's background systems (building management systems, security, elevators, power management, etc.) you may be shocked at what you find. It's terrible to find your security system is your company's biggest security hole.

The irony is that this reveals you to be the "old internet user" who's used to "people on the internet" being different from "people I know in real life".

For younger internet users, there is little difference. Internet is where they interact with schoolmates, work colleagues, friends, teammates, etc. They see people like you and I as "these weird boomers who think internet isn't full of real people".

Meanwhile interest based groups are reasonably localized. I know something like 75-80% of people in most of those, and have met them face to face at least once. Same goes for those massive snapchat/whasapp/discord/etc groups. While some are international, for most of the young people these have in fact replaced bars, gentlemen's clubs, book reading circles, bowling alleys, etc social gatherings. They're the normal place where they socialize with friends and acquaintances now. And these old ones are slowly withering and dying as youngsters don't see a reason to go to a bar to meet up with friends any more.

What happened to "AI factories"?

Also, it would seem that they have overhired on PR people, if they're this desperate for something to do.