Coward said, because when the wing falls off at 30,000 feet, rest assured - it's okay, because Airbus has good documentation. All fixed.

First reply? A fine example of Whataboutism. Let's face it, you are excusing Airbus issues, by another condemnation of Boeing.

Let's face it, Boeing turned into a shitshow.

But remember that when your properly documented wins fall off, I*t's okay to die in a flaming wreck, because Boeing. Good to know.

Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you people"?

I'd like an eInk tablet, but I've been waiting for a reasonably priced large format one.

Their entire business model is that you are reliant on their servers to run AI. The last thing they want is you buying a power PC that can run it locally.

The only hope seems to be that Chinese manufacturers are improving rapidly. Already a lot of mid range products are using Chinese RAM, and they are supplying DDR 4. Once they reach competitive DDR 5 and GDDR levels, the price should come down.

Same with SSDs. The only decent offers are from Chinese brands using Chinese flash memory, like Fanxiang. The performance isn't mind blowing but they have proven to be reliable.

US vehicles imported to the EU still have to comply with regulations. The easiest way is type approval. But most US cars don't have type approval that so they need individual approval with is reams of paperwork, work to change light clusters & software, speedometer, emissions and a vehicle inspection. The inspection tests the car against EU regs. For cars made since 2024 that includes GSR2 (general safety regulations), which virtually no US car would pass. Then it has to be locally registered and that might incur another country specific inspection, & more taxes. Even if it DOES pass all this, the expense and effort is so prohibitive nobody would bother unless it was a classic vehicle.

This is why Cybertrucks are defacto banned in Europe because by design they're unsafe & uncompliant and cannot be brought into compliance. A few people tried but it didn't go well for them.

It's funny you think that China is communist.

It's because they are already invested in the Apple ecosystem, i.e. lock-in, or because it's the default safe choice for people who don't know much about phones and tablets and computers.

Android has better privacy protections, if that's what you care about. You also have the option of running a privacy focused version of Android, like Graphene OS. Even on standard Android you get extensive privacy controls and access to F-Droid, an app store for open source apps that bars anything which requires Google's services to work.

Android has supported IPv6 since the early days. I've got an ancient Galaxy S3 that I was seeing what I could do with, and that is on Android 4.3 which supports it.

Unless you are trapped deep in the Apple revenue farm, I don't think there is much point buying an iPad these days. At the low and mid levels Android tablets are cheaper and more than good enough for sheet music, web browser, most games, watching video, and so on. At the high end, Samsung tablets are better anyway. Better pen for drawing, better handwriting input, better screens etc.

Gouging, but also Chinese tablet manufacturers can use Chinese made RAM. It's a bit lower performance than the latest DDR5 stuff, but it's fine for tablets and quantity is more important than speed here.

Have a look at the price of AM4 Ryzen CPUs now, even used. They have shot up because DDR4 RAM is cheap.

That would suck. Some of the best features of modern EVs are that you can do things like pre-cool them remotely, and they take a lot of the effort out of cruising long distance with lane following automation.

The best outcome would be if such features were available with data not leaving domestic servers, or even better being able to use your own home server.

A better reference would be automotive batteries. 100kWh is on the larger end, but still fits within a typical European mid size car.

I have some portable ones. They aren't really the sort of thing you would need at home though, more for public areas where people come and go. Cafes, offices, that sort of thing.

I notice you have dropped your other argument without acknowledging it.

And no, I do not have reading comprehension problems. "I made a mistake" puts the blame on you. "[something] made me make a mistake" puts the blame on [something].

Given that English is not your first language (my presumption being based on a reference to German news sources in 1986) I think it's fair to say that this is an understandable error. English is a fucked up amalgamation often jokingly referred to as "three other languages in a trench coat" so a simple grammatical error like this is easily explained by the language barrier. I have a bunch of German colleagues that all have some word and grammatical choices when speaking English (saying things like "unpossible" rather than "impossible," for example) that probably make perfect sense as a direct translation and I would think this falls into that category, wouldn't you say?