My setup to make YouTube bearable:

Firefox mobile and the following extensions:

• uBlock Origin
• DeArrow
• Hide-Shorts
• SponsorBlock

Also important that Mac primarily supports their own proprietary graphics api, while other platforms support open standards like Opengl and Vulkan. Which makes coding games for Apple a pain few are willing to endure.

That’s a question for your bank. Wero is a system designed for mobile payments between banks, but in 95% of all cases it’s your bank implementing it for the user.

High speed is a waste of energy regardless of the power source. Air resistance increases quadratically with speed. And half of the yearly produced electricity in Germany is generated using fossil fuels. Plus electric cars are not yet mainstream for the masses as prices are higher, only 4% of all cars in Germany are fully electric. I don’t think giving privileges to a select few is ethical.

A maximum speed limit is a sane idea and reduces both pollution and accidents. As all countries know except for Afghanistan and Germany.

That’s probably true! However the telescope was not yet invented in the 15th century

VW has 75% ownership in the Tavascan factory since 2020.

VW got an exemption on the additional import fees based on certain conditions (agreements on minimum selling price level, EU car industry investment assurances)

iOS doesn’t support alternative browsers unless they use Webkit underneath which comes with limitations. You have to upgrade to a better OS for it to work, or wait for the tide to turn (the EU has already forced Apple to be more open here)

Thanks for the follow up. It is worth mentioning that both Tesla and Cuprsa Tavascan are not Chinese owned.

The biggest/most popular Chinese manufacturers in the EU are BYD, SAIC, Geely, NIO and Xpeng.

13% is certainly not the average. Not sure who upvotes such utter dubious information.

All foreign cars have a 10% base import fee in the EU. Adding to that up to 35% extra anti-subsidy tariff.

Byd: 27%

Geely: 28%

Saic: 45%

Nio: 31%

Xpeng: 31%

Other: 45%

Excluding shipping, handling and homologation and not including VAT that is applied on top of the tariffs.

Chinese EVs have up to 45% tariffs in the EU. The exact amount is different for each company and depends on the amount of state funding that company had received

Depends on your angle. The Pixel is a good phone and the OS works well, but it is a Google device. A growing minority wants to avoid investing in US big corp, or in anything US related in general given the current political situation.

It’s weird though. Pencils were never a good way to transport tape. It was also investigated that only certain Japanese pencils fit as these are bigger. In my memory we always used a BIC ballpoint pen which fits perfectly.

I agree with your point. However that’s not what the article is about. It’s about the social and aesthetically engaging aspects that come with physical media compared to the utilitarian services where music is presented like “tap water”, and the sense of indifference that’s created through abundance, hurting the artists financially.

That authors’ view is explained in the article.

Unlike a burned CD from a friend, there’s no social contract that compels me to sit with something new, and take the time to better understand it. There’s very little on Spotify that will compel me to dive into the catalogue of a new-to-me artist, then seek them out when they go on tour.

This is just a proposal to unify company rights. It makes it easier for everyone to set up companies without the hassle of having to deal with the individual rules for companies in every independent country. That is a plus for everyone, even if your company is small. In fact, it makes expanding business activities abroad more reachable to small businesses as it does away with a lot of expensive and specific legal requirements.

Usable addition, and the fact that it is only in-browser is actually a merit in some cases. Firefox gets a lot of hate but is way more privacy centric out of the box compared to Chrome. AI is only opt-in and you can literally customize the entire browser using about:config. Mozilla also maintains the only real competing web engine (not considering Apple’s locked in ecosystem) and they are the reason browsers are open source these days.