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I'm not familiar enough with Bancontact, but.... Doesn't Bancontact take up to 3 days to the money to get to business?

Does it support every bank? It feels for me Bancontact feels like a Visa/Master thing?

The point about Pix is how it was created by the Central Bank. Between person, it's 100% free, no fees at all. Between business, they allow banks to charge a fee, but the cost it's super low, so a few banks don't have fees at all.

Pix it's just a way on how you can transfer money from your bank app.

About Google Pay thing, Google Pay here integrated Pix, by using open bank solution. So Google Pay basically becomes a 3rd party client for your bank, and thus, allows you use Pix with Tap to Pay, or... with every website on Chrome's.

As soon as you copy the Pix Code to pay, it invokes Google Pay, and you can pay seamless, without switching to any app.

And because every website, store, supports Pix... This basically delivered Google Pay to everything.

In Brazil, they called it Dolphin Mini. It's been a huge success. BYD now it's ahead of Toyota in sales.

If you told someone like, 3 years ago that this would happen, people would call you crazy,

TOP 9 from May was:

1. FIAT

2. VW

3. GM

4. BYD

5. Toyota

6. Hyundai

7. Honda

8. Caoa-Chery

9. Jeep

Do you buy on amazon with SEPA? Can you do your gym automatic subscription with SEPA? Can you buy stuff on Chrome with Google Pay with SEPA?

All of this is possible with Pix.

Just a reminder that Google Pay supports Pix! You can pay using Pix with QR Code, keys or just NFC with it.

There were reports that Apple doesn't want to implement on Apple Pay...

Being against Pix in Brazil is even worse than the 50% tariffs.

It's the only thing that unify today's polarized Brazil society.

In Brazil as well

I didn't mention any rumors. I talked about an interview Lula gave that I watched. Not sure why you are so stressed.

Sorry, didn't understand what are you saying...? Did you confuse me with another person?

Lula said today that they will try to negotiate (how? Trump is asking something that you can't negotiate), and if the day comes the tariff starts, then Brazil will retaliate with another 50% back.

Spain is actually one of the few countries in EU that is growing a lot, actually.

Also, does it count the COVID checks?

Unemployment might say the same, but there's also data about wages, so, not sure what do you mean.

Oh, wow. I was sure it was Si-Co. This is now even more ridiculous then lol

Meta seems to be the worst with ads. So many scam ads... Even AI ads, showing a famous person and saying product X is from them, or just straight up asking for money.

For foreigners? Not common I think

There was rumors iPhone 17 would have it

And considering Samsung showed Galaxy Edge with the new battery...

I believe it's been 5 years that some Chinese phones already have Silicon Carbon battery... Samsung/Apple was crazy slow on this, and later this year everyone will get "Shocked" when apple supposedly show up their new phone with the new battery...

And they still didn't launch the new Dolphin Surf in Europe, which will cost 16k euro I believe.

For light theme, their default color... The grayish combined with the UX in general feels for me very Windows 2000 or so.

But talking about real UI/UX, I do guess it's just about everything. It feels like the UI/UX was developed by programmers. It feels unpolished.

Border radius, paddings... A lot of things there being square and not round... The default icons. The context menu being to square, again. Even the default close/minimize buttons.

Like, UI wise, Finder and Nautilus is just way ahead than Dolphin for me.

Libadwaita apps also feel very consistent. I can find most of my apps with basically same consistent design on gnome.

UI wise I find gnome beautiful, their problem it's with UX and the excess of simplicity, like removing real features from Nautilus...

But at the same time I guess, KDE made the mistake of being too much complex UI wise. Even their screenshot tool it's a little insane hahahah

Maybe I just find it KDE ugly because I got super used by Gnome, macOS and Windows 10/11 UI? Likely.

Although Deepseek is old, I find the V3 (without reason) still to be the best non reasoning model out there.

Now, ChatGPT main advantage for me right now it's search + o4-mini. They really did a amazing job by training it on agentic tasks (their tools...) and the search with reasoning works amazing.

Way better than grok search or anything.

Yes, I tried!

I really like KDE in general, and how full featured it is, but their design just feels dated compared to all modern OSes and other DMs on Linux...

The only reason why I'm a gnome user, it's because of that.

And yes, I know I can just customize, but everytime I try, it just make KDE more sluggish for some reason, and doesn't really feels natural.

Brazil it's actually building a project to give tax breaks and change/simplify a few regulation for datacenter projects. Import tariffs will also be 0 for them...

Finance Minister it's in the California trying to bring investments from the big techs... He met with Jensen Huang already.

I wouldn't doubt if Brazil might be interested.

TikTok is also interested in building a datacenter in Ceará, Brazil, as part of this project.

Not fossil fuel, so less carbon footprint.

There's a few buses here in Brazil which uses biomethane, and a few biomethane gas pipelines as well.

The thing is, Argentina just have a lot of natural gas production and infra.

Brazil natural gas are all offshore, on the coast, mainly São Paulo and Rio coast. And there is a lack of infra connecting these to countryside. We just don't have pipelines...

Brazil end up importing natural gas from Bolivia too, and soon, from Argentina Vaca Muerta.

And Brazilian natural gas are not cheap (but natura gas cars exists too).

Biomethane/biogas meanwhile, it's growing quickly because you can just use cattle, swine, and poultry manure, sugarcane, trash waste, etc. And well, Brazil is big with agriculture, so...

In 2024, 8,4% of electricity was using biomass too, for this exact reason.

PS: Reminder that most cooking gas in Brazil is all in a bottle, that you put in your home, which is LPG (liquefied petroleum gas, made of propane and butane). Most showers and heaters are all electric.

Which languages?

Temu "produces" their own clothes, etc? I was under the impression that it was just a marketplace.

Shein biggest thing is actually AI/ML. As far I remember, what they really invested is on the service per see. Shein gather data from consumers on internet, on what's the latest trends/art, and just create clothes. And they do this like, always.

There's no "Summer" or "Winter" season clothes. They just update them continually.

In Brazil there's Shopee, which honestly, I find way better than Temu...

Even without reasoning, isn't Deepseek V3 from March better?

There is a Discovery feed by default for sure.