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Also worth mentioning are the numerous intellectual property rights that companies like Apple enjoy and skillfully use to stave off competition. If Apple wants lawmakers to drop market regulations like the DMA, then maybe we should consider cutting IP protections. Only then can we have a conversation about free markets and government intervention.

Nice analogy. The problem is, that ExamplePrint is the only shop the author can use to reach his customers. There is also PrintExample (Android), but it's customer base has zero overlap with ExamplePrint. Therefore the author has no choice but to use ExamplePrint's service.

I also avoided smart appliances when replacing an oven and a washing machine recently. I would have considered them, though, if the "smart" part was based on the matter/thread standard. What I don't want, for sure, are appliances that need an internet connection using my Wi-Fi and only work with the manufacturer's app.

> It's a bit disappointing to see Haier's very reasonable response (an extra high AWS load is expensive, because AWS is just expensive by design) but only after internet wide outrage.

If this is the real reason, how long can you expect Haier to support the API free of charge for existing customers? Not very long I bet.

The only sane solution are applicances that can be controled locally without an internet connection.

Hit and miss I would say.

Budget Sony headphones I bought last year work great with my iPhone. No complaints at all.

The Bluetooth stack on my iMac has a bug where it will crash hard after around two weeks of uptime. Very annoying, because the (Magic) Keyboard and (Magic) Mouse stop working. Only way to fix it is a restart.

> I'm not saying the App Store is infrastructure-like.

It is infrastructure-like. Try to live in modern society without a smartphone. It will be very difficult. Not impossible, but much less convenient.

Do you happen to have a source for this comparison? I'm curious to know what the economics of grid scale electricity storage are.

All three networks have disabled 3G access in 2021, as far as I know.

I was mistaken about this apparently. There are tools though, that can discover subdomains using long lists of commonly used names and patterns. Anyways thanks for the correction.

Thanks for submitting this article. I wasn't aware it's so easy to misconfigure the TLS settings of web servers. It might also explain some TLS errors I have encountered in the past in Firefox.

It would be super helpful if someone could recommend easy ways to check web servers for bad configurations like this.

I was wondering recently if it's better to use wildcard certs because of this. On the other hand, all sub-domains are discoverable through DNS anyways. Does it then make a difference if the sub-domains are logged in the certificate transparency logs?

They are very convenient when I work on remote servers over ssh, even if it's just my server at home. Programs I use regularly (no specific order):

vim ncdu nnn mqqtui htop gitui tmux lnav lazydocker ctop

You can check the rated cycle counts for most Macbooks on the following Apple Support page:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102888

Most recent Macbooks should last for 1000 full cycles. Though I'm pretty sure you can brick your battery quickly by keeping it at 100% charge all the time or if you use it in a very hot environment.

You can check the cycle count using the System Information app in the power section. Option-click on the Apple logo is a convenient shortcut to open System Information.

There is also the third-party Coconut Battery app that gives you other nice statistics and keeps track of battery health if you open it occasionally.

https://coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

Neat. A tool like this but for VPN profiles would be nice. I had to manually create them to connect to my internet router. The number of available options is quite intimidating.

Add to that, that you can't upgrade RAM in most Desktop Macs anymore.

I want to buy a Mac soon, and I'm really struggling to decide how much RAM I should order. Unfortunately, my budget is limited. If it wasn't, I would probably go for at least 32GB. I'm still hoping Apple might change their RAM pricing, but probably in vain.

This is an important consideration. Thanks for mentioning it.

I have the same tool and charger and only noticed the out-of-spec voltage after trying to charge the tool with a regular USB-C cable and charger. It's really disappointing someone thought this is a good design.

Newer revisions of the tool don't seem to have this flaw though. They only come with a USB-C cable and no charger in the box.

Also thanks for reminding me to put a big sticker on the charger with a warning!

Ok, sorry. I did not understand that you just mentioned that to give more context. Totally makes sense.

Thank you (and all the adjacent comments). I don't really need so much RAM for my regular work. Running the llms locally would only be for fun and experiments.

I think 32GB might be the best middle ground for my needs and budget constraints.

It's really a pity that you can't extend RAM in most Apple Silicon Macs and have to decide carefully upfront.

Thank you for this detailed response. I'm not sure if it was clear, but I was going to use just the Apple Silicon CPU/GPU, not an external one from Nvidia.

Is there anything useful you can do with 24 or 32GB of RAM with llms? Regular M2 Mac minis can only be ordered with up to 24GB of RAM. The Pro Mac mini M2 is upgradable to 32GB RAM.

This is a bit off-topic and probably a noob question. But maybe someone with experience could help me. I'm about to buy a M2 or M3 Mac to replace my Intel Mac, and would like to play around with locally run LLMs in the future. How much RAM do I have to buy in order not to run into bottlenecks? I'm aware that you would probably want a beefier GPU for better performance. But as I said, I'm not worried about speed so much.

Sales have decreased from 565,000 to 485,000 or 14% in "Europe" YoY in the third quarter 2023. I would not call that a collapse.

A doubling of travel time is harsh. But I'm wondering how you managed to charge so inefficiently (time wise). Could it be, that you traveled with the smallest Škoda Enyaq which only supports up to 50kW of charging rate?

I checked your route with abetterrouteplanner.com using two different Enyaq models. One with 50kW charging and one with 100kW+. Here are the travel times:

- Enyaq iV 50 (50kW charging): 33 hours

- Enyaq iV 80 (100kW charging): 26 hours

- Google Maps (w/o charging time): 22,5 hours

I think you just had the wrong car model for this kind of trip.

They are cheaper built because of the high share of R&D cost each car has to contribute.

I don't think we will increasy taxes for electricity. How do you even to that, when most cars are charged at home. The more likely scenario is that governments will impose higher road use charges. That has been a trend anyway in most of the developed world.

Rare earths are not a major component in car batteries. They are mostly used in the electric motors for the magnets and it's acutally quite easy to replace them. Mining of lithium, copper, nickel, will have to expand in the future. But it's nothing in comparison to the damage that is done with the extraction of oil and gas.

Right now, electric cars are still at a disadvantage because of lower production volumes. It's not only the material cost of the battery and the motor that makes them more expensive, but also the share of the development costs that each sale has to recoup. In the not so distant future I think petrol and diesel cars are going to be at a disadvantage because of this.

I still own a quite old (12 years, but low mileage) petrol car, because I don't drive a lot and really only need it for errands in my city. In this scenario it's very hard to justify buying an almost new electric car. The used ones available on the market right now are still not very attractive in my opinion.

This seems to be good advice for single cells. But what about packs with cells wired in series and parallel? My understanding is, that packs always come with a battery management system (BMS) that will balance the cell voltages and therefore compensate for slight variations between cells that can manifest during use and charging. This seems to be necessary for both performance and longevity of the pack. Now the question is, do these BMSs work properly if you never or rarely charge your pack to 100%? I tend to charge packs to 100% to give the BMS a chance to do the balancing and then keep it off a charger for as long as possible. Not sure if my thinking is correct though. Maybe someone with more knowledge could chime in.

It looks like they are rolling it out in stages. I have Excel for Mac on two devices. One has it already, the other one not yet. It's also marked as "BETA". On macOS you can find it in Preferences and then in the "Edit" category.

I'm glad they finally introduced this option. Unfortunately the previous behavior is still the default. If someone sends you data and does not know about this, your data will still be subject to the old conversion rules.