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.

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 don't think they thought it would work. Companies have been firing people because we are in a recession for some time now.

Sometimes they fire too many and they end up having to hire some of them back. But they always use AI as the excuse for firing them in order to prevent investors from discussing the deep deep recession we are actually in.

Remember the only thing making the GDP look positive is that the Epstein class is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI bullshit that doesn't create any jobs.

They know nobody new is going to compete because we aren't enforcing antitrust law.

Like it or not, is you want cheap RAM vote Democrat (or whatever your local equivalent is)

Because mark my words in 10 years we'll find out they were all colluding. Just like the flat panel guys were

Thanks. So this compares fairly well then, and is doubtless a lot safer, even if you don't care about the zero emissions.

Bill Gates invested in one of the covid vaccines and made a ton of money. He passed it off his charity but when it came time to make the patents free that's strangely didn't happen. None of these fuckers do real charity any more than Trump did. It is always a scam and a grift.

If you gave 20 bucks at a grocery checkout you've given more of your income or hell more real money than any billionaire has ever given the charity in their lives. That's raw dollars that's before we talk about all the money they diverted into their pockets

Indeed, this has been well known in Europe for many years, and rules put in place to mitigate the problem.