We don’t value THEIR workers or THEIR labor either. We value cheap products with many features. That was basically my point from the beginning.

It isn’t. Of course established brands make quality stuff; their brand depends on it. It’s the US/Canada/Europe level of qa expectation and local laws that are driving the quality.

And cars are not only expensive as fuck, but also are an absolute necessity in most of US/Canada. I wouldn’t blame anyone for getting a fully loaded $30k brand new electric car over a similarly priced “budget” Kia. Might as well take advantage of the fact that China is subsidizing the other $20k.

There’s almost nothing that can break in an electric car over typical lease period, but I wouldn’t want to keep it past the warranty or get into a serious accident in it.

They manufacture so much because it’s cheap to manufacture there and that comes at some costs like putting very little value on people and their labor.

Also, designed in California means more than you think for established brands that have to follow American or, usually stricter, California laws.

Government subsidized is not the same thing as affordable. As soon as they are embedded, prices will go up.

Just look at Korean manufacturers in US. Some Hyundais/Kias are more expensive than Toyotas. They used to be a great cheap alternative.

Difference is Koreans actually build high quality cars and Chinese build quality is debatable.

I have to say though, the faster Tesla fucking burns, the better. Nazi trash can go fuck himself.

https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/byd-ev-sales-profit-decline-cash-burn-2025-china-125110300804_1.html

Try Dota while you’re at it. More or less identical game I was glued to for years.

Did you have to request specific equipment to get a static or semi-static IPv4 like you get with cable? Did it cost extra?

I don’t think it’s optional. I think that’s what separates home internet from business internet. Could someone that has this service confirm?

Also, there were like 3 washing machines on sale. Now you have 50/manufacturer.

$70, not $50. And this breaks the deal: https://www.t-mobile.com/business/filtering

Not really usable at home.

Fucking hate all the coax providers. Absolute monopoly granted to them in insane. I’m stuck with an even worse one - Spectrum. No other options where I live. Tmo home internet is cheaper but it’s not reliable enough despite a $400 antenna pointed directly at their tower. And CGNAT breaks a ton of shit.

All this instead of just hiring a few senior devs to contribute to any of the number of existing open source projects that are already infinitely better than any new thing they will come up with.

These are just wrappers for Proton. Why do we need one more? Just contribute those resources to Heroic. My dream is to not need steam either. I want to run games like we did before. Just launch an executable file.

Why? It’s already annoying to have to use steam and heroic. Why would anyone want a third app?

You basically do already. Most cheaper PCs come with S mode enabled from the store. Turning it off requires accepting a scary disclaimer that it’s a permanent change and you’re likely to fuck up your computer.

I have to be honest though, I kinda like it for older relatives that I can’t convince to switch to Linux. Prevents tech support calls to me. And if Android was setup the same way with a one time prompt, I’d be perfectly happy.

Would love to get this in US/Canada

I understand. I was replying to how gov agencies would find out. Any digital transmission is basically “static” to an analog receiver.

A high powered antenna that transmits a lot of “static” would be a dead giveaway.

Maybe an uneducated observation, but doesn’t the male show more nose? You can’t see the nostrils on female at all. Is that an indicator of gender or just random?

Typical tea has around 50mg of caffeine. Typical espresso based drink has 2 or 3 espresso shots at around 65mg each. Plus milk, which a bunch of adults can’t digest to at least some degree.

Connect is great. Been using it since I moved to Lemmy. Never used sync though so there may be features in not aware of that you’re expecting.