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Comment Re:Artificially cheap? (Score 4, Insightful) 99

Well for one, China is willing to directly subsidize industries. But even forgetting that, when you aren't meeting the end countries laws re: human rights, safety, production methods, etc, yes, it's artificially cheap as it applies to domestic manufacturers. So if your answer for "Germany needs to adapt" is to adapt China-style laws, then I guess you're right. But that's probably not what we really want here.

Comment Re:Another anti consumer move, limiting options (Score 1) 60

On 1 - yes, moving to a totally different hardware device is a little more difficult with an eSIM, but like... barely. You go to a website instead of switching the hardware. 2 - That's an incredibly niche case. You have more than 2 *active* SIM's? The iPhone 17 can hold 10 eSIM's... 2 active and 8 in storage. I don't know of any hardware-based SIM phones that have more than 2 active. I'm sure you'll find some random phone somewhere that does 3, maybe. But again, that's *incredibly* niche.

Comment Re:ETHICS IN JOURNALISM ended with PAYWALLS (Score 1) 26

I honestly can't tell if you're ranting about paywalls or sourcing here. The answer is, of course, both. But the two arguments keep getting mixed up. And then you throw in ad "blizzards" as well. What is it you want sites to do in order to make money, if not paywalls or lots of advertising?

Comment Re:Recycled 5lbs of lightning cables (Score 1) 107

I'd argue this just created a ton of waste. You were formerly able to continue using those cables. Long term maaayyyybe it reduces waste but history tells us that cables are going to change over time regardless. Even if they use a similar design connector doesn't mean they do the same things (just look at the advances in HDMI cables despite the same connector for a couple decades). I'm not anti-this law but I don't see it as really helping much when it comes to waste.

Comment Re:Oh good (Score 1) 49

I mean... yes, it is too much to ask that. Because it's 2024, not 2004. Based on what Apple's saying, though, data is not accessible to 3rd parties and is mostly locally processed in the first place. But if you're not even using siri, none of this is relevant to you.

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