Jiral
@Jiral@lemmy.world
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 1 day ago:
This has absolutely nothing to do with wind power in France. The US pays a French company a lot of money to not build wind power in the US. Not France’s or Europe’s strategic problem.
France has massively increased renewable sources and is also in good position regarding EV transition.
No matter how you turn it, there is no reason to make oneself dependent on gas or oil from an openly hostile dictatorship in Moscow.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 1 day ago:
You should readjust your irony detector.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 1 day ago:
Personal traffic is currently shifted to electricity, so is home heating. Heavy rood traffic is currently the implementation of vehicles that can cover everything up to mid range. China is already getting into transition in that market too. Europe would be irresponsible not to follow.
What is left is rather small in volume. Making oneself reliant on an openly hostile Russian dictatorship which won’t waste a second to use that dependency as a weapon against France or Europe, is not necessay than anymore.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 2 days ago:
That’s exactly Russian propaganda. France doesn’t need “cheap energy” ftom Russia. It needs a sovereign reliable energy supply, one that pnly renewable energy (and possibly nuclear under certain conditions) can enable. France is working on this.
“Cheap energy” from Russia is also a lie. Putin’s vassal Orban didn’t get cheap energy either. Hungary did have higher energy prices abd much higher inflation than other EU member states.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 2 days ago:
His views go beyond dislike. He wants the EU functionally dismantled and that is why Putin doesn’t care if he or Le Pen make it to power.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 2 days ago:
Putin doesn’t really care if European countries ard governed by communists, fascists or whoever, as long as they are nationalists, working towards the balkanisation of Europe and the functional destruction of the EU because this is tge precondition to enable the next steos of Russian conquest and dlmination of Europe.
There are not only right Putinist parties in the EU. In Germany Wagenknecht is openly pro Russian and pretends to be left as well.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 days ago:
Left nationalist, if that makes any sense.
- Comment on France's left-wing presidential candidate has opinions on GTA 6 and the discless PlayStation fiasco 3 days ago:
He also has opinions on the EU and those happen to be quite of the kind Putin approves.
- Comment on It's always the ones you expect 1 week ago:
It always happens that all those super correct and honest politicians get corrupted by corrupt and evil Brussels. Happened to the former interior minister of Austria as well, as soon as he became an MEP. /s
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 1 week ago:
It really depends where you are and also if you are in a dense city or on the countryside. Climate Change has made an impact on that as well.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 1 week ago:
Because they can. It really is just a cartell. Especially institutions pay a fortune for bundled access.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 1 week ago:
Welcome to the world of scientific publishing, long before AI. Except authors even have to pay g free or creating “content”, and reviewers are expected to work for free.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It has to be shipped to the US as well. Shipping isn’t a meaningful extra cost. But you have to compare netto prices with US prices. The Euro price is lower than the USD price.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
AAA totles work just fine at 1080p, possibly even on 1440p at optimised settings (and games come with optimised settings on Stream). The 4k claim was a lie.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
A 5070ti mobile is not a 5070ti. the makor thing is 4GB more VRAM, performance wise hiw much stronger is it at 60W GPU TDP? Maybe 25%?
That laptop is also 25% more expensive with an inferior and louder cooling system. The screen is redundant for the living room, 16GB RAM on Linux are still ok for gaming, this isn’t Windows. SSD capacity is inconcenience but not a oerformance issue.
So yeah, I would say, the laptop is certainly comoetitive performance wise but it is not a rrpkacement for a compact silent living room PC.
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 1 week ago:
Weather forecast currently is 12-18C in a week ;p
- Comment on I love houses that trap heat! /s 1 week ago:
I am going to fly to Finland ;)
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 week ago:
What off the shelf part is less expensive and can deliver that performance at 110 W TDP (CPU+GPU) in this form actor?
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 week ago:
A system with CPU+GPU TDP of 110W at comparable (or better) performance, at this size, at comparable silence under full load? This thing is designed for the living room so these things matter to more than a few.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 week ago:
This isn’t really a mass product like a (subsidised) PS5. Have a look at what a Ryzen Max 385 with 32 GB board costs. RAM is only a part of that SSD is another one (both went through the roof). They aren’t doubling the price but they certainly pushed it beyond 1000 USD/ EUR. They are also probably the reason why much less of the thing will be available than planned. Before the madness started, maybe Valve targeted 700-800 USD or so.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
Full price at 0 EUR shipment on 1EUR order? By which magic can that cover shipment across the world, no matter how it is done?
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
Wrong. The micro orders via Ali Express standard shipping to Austria are sent by the Austrian post, the same company sending any other letter.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
I am talking about Austria because to compare it with other parliamentary democracies it helps to chose one concrete example, you can chose another one if you like. How about Germany, the largest member state. There Parliament’s position in this regard is actually weaker than in Austria.
I have no idea where you are coming from but you seem to lack knowledge how parliamentary democracies work if you hold the completely outlandish view that they are on the same level as the Chinese system in terms of democracy.
Back to the EU Commission. Its election is obviously a system where both, the Council / member states and the EP hold power. (“election” is the word in the treaties btw) This is by design. Power is not centralised. It is common in parliamentary democracies that parliaments elect/consent on members of the government but don’t choose them. However government with members that are not to the liking of a majority in Parliament won’t be elected/voted into power. The same is the case in the EU and there is precedent for that as well. The vote on VdL yielded a paper thin majority im the EP and only because VdL was giving the EP concessions in return. If the EP targets candidates as not acceptable they will not make it into the Commission. Again, there is precedent for that.
If that sounds like Chinese dictatorship to you, half the democracies (ie all parliamentary democracies) on earth are in reality a Chinese style dictatorship. Seriously?
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
The EU commission is elected by the directly elected European Parliament based on suggestions by the Council/member states. The Commission can be voted out of office anytime when it loses support in the European Parliament.
The Austrian government is elected by Parliament based on suggestions by the Chancelor candidate (the latter chosen by the President). The parliament can vote the government out of office anytime.
According to you the one thing is utterly undemocratic while the other is not. ok.
The EU Commission is not the EU, but it is its executive and administration. I f you just kill that, you let everthing derail. Bureaucracy is a dirty word but there without it political entities implode.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
“Materially speaking is more expensive to send a letter next town than a packet from something like aliexpress.”
That is wrong. The microdeliveries are sent as letters. So they are literally a letter from next town (just even longer distance) + a consolidated flight freight from the other side of the globe. The last leg alone creates more costs than the entire product plus shipment is purchased for.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
Are also calling for the complete abolishing of the government of your country and thereby call for the destruction of the political system, when you don’t like the government in office, or is it just something you do with the EU
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
It is madness to ship a 1 EUR on its own across the globe. This creates costs way bigger than 3 EUR which pthers will pay via subsidising that shipping at dumping prices. That you think this is a viable thing that people should be entitled to just shows that we actually need that small tariff.
The main benefit is that it removes the perverse incentive to break up orders in a log if small parts under 150 EUR instead of people trying to order stuff at once. This is part of the reason why shipping is drowning in tiny shipments, a horrendously inefficient thing, even with modern technology. Automstisation doesn’t resolve the issue that treaties require the shipping forward at absurdly low rates.
Talk about drones to blacken the sky for 1 EUR deliveries of stuff that goes directly to the trash is nonsensical populism. I am glad that people calling for that don’t call the shots.
The egoism of some people is simply breathtaking. Chinese companies will quickly adapt by increasing shipping sizes to minimise fees, and this will achieve exactly what the aim is here, a much more efficient way of getting products to Europe. Possibly that will also include a strengthening of their logistics basis in Europe, something that will benefit also consumers directly.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
It seems your beef is with democracy itself rather than the EU. Which party publishes an exhaustive detailed list of all coming laws with specific outlines for the coming legislative period, and of course predicting future coalition negotiations. You don’t see that your requirements are completely unworkable in reality, not just in the EU, anywhere, are you?
Party programs are simplifications out of necessity and they focus on specific topics, depending on the party. That focus itself is a strong reason why to vote for them. Those few Euros of tariffs on orders from China was indeed not a big topic. Immigration, Russia, defense and Integration were big topics, understandably.
3 EUR is not cutting off anyone from anything, especially as that is barely compensating the dumping prices on shipping. Or do you believe that 0 EUR shipping on a 2 EUR order is covering the actual shipping costs? Like I said, that shipping dumping is possible because of anachronistic international agreements that were never intended for what they are used now.
I know some don’t care at all about the environment or costs to society. That avalanche of tiny packages is a huge strain on our infrastructure and driven by unsustainably low shipping rates. That legislation will have a positive effect by incentivicing more consolidated ordering and shipping at prices closer to real costs.
Like I said, I am ordering myself in China and I support that. Chinese platforms will adopt fast when it is about money. So the positive effects will be seen soon. Maybe you don’t think as far but that shipping dumping is paid largely by us. At least everyone who is still ordering stuff also within the EU or paying taxes here for infrastructure.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
Yes national parties always campaign on the introduction of new fees and taxes and every new law is in every party program, naturlly also when coalitions govern.
That said, yes the tariffs on small orders are in line with the program of the party I voted for. They are also reasonable. Disposable fashion (and also other Chinese companies) platforms were systemmatically mislabeling shipments to avoid existing tariffs. Thanks to international agreements they can also ship at dumping prices (for less than the cost of a letter to the neighbour village within a country). Adding that tariff merely raises the shipping price to a level that is closer to domestic shipping. It also creates an incentive to not split up everything into countless part shipments, reducing the load on insfrustructure.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 2 weeks ago:
I thonk this is false on many levels. Party groups are acting largely within their programs. Topics like Russia, Ukraine, EU integration (pro/contra), environment, regulation vs fighting red tape, Immigration etc. were present in the debate.
It is not complete, after all coalitions need to compromise and also the other legislative chamber gas a say for good reasons but generally I don’t see more divergence than on national level.
What I do see however, when comparing to Austria is that MEPs are more approachable than MPs and there is a higher chance that they might be influenced by public pressure. They are also much more engaged in actual legislative work in committees and not just in rubber stamping in the plenum.