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  • If the US or EU want to keep up, they can sunbsidize EV manufacturing to the same degree

    You can’t allow dumping-inducing subsidies without also allowing defensive tariffs, otherwise the richer and more authoritarian countries, which have greater capacity for subsidies and greater ability to concentrate them in specific sectors, will easily kill foreign competition and establish monopolies.

    The marketplace brah is a place where, without regulations that maintain a degree of fairness, the rich kills the poor, competition dies off, and consumers are drained to their last cent.

    Just think of it: competition is when different actors fight it off and it ends the moment one of the contenders wins.
    If you want the fight to go on forever, you don’t want an unregulated market.



  • Subsidizing sales of EVs (ie. I pay for my neighbor’s new EV because I want cleaner air) does make environmental sense.

    Subsidizing production does not have the same positive environmental impact, mainly because factories in China pollute more than factories, say, in the EU (due to different environmental laws), but also because moving finished products from China to the “west” obviously pollutes more than moving just those components that would need to be sourced from China anyways (eg. batteries).

    As for the “makes economic sense” part… IDK: I guess that mainly depend on your political stance.
    Personally, I don’t like that both sales and production subsidies have the effect of moving money from the poor to the rich, but other people may focus on different effects (eg. more production = more jobs) and support subsides.
    In case you wonder: my take is that, instead of incentivizing adoption and production of EVs, one should disincentivize internal combustion vehicles by adding taxes to them (which, in a sense, aren’t really taxes but just charging for the very real environmental costs society as a whole will have to pay for your shiny SUV).

    Anyone not doing this is an idiot and a climate terrorist.

    You should really think twice before spewing judgements… and also avoid misusing words like “terrorist” because, when misused this way, it only conveys that you don’t like someone, dulling your message instead of strengthening it.


  • That’s catchy, but not entirely true.

    China heavily subsidizes EV manufacturers (and production in general), plus they have cheaper environmental and labour standards… it’s not like there’s a fair market EU companies can compete in without some sort of handicap.

    PS: Yes, “western” countries have been playing along with China’s deliberate long term strategy with full awareness of where it would lead, but that’s another story that is both much older and has a much broader scope than the EV industry.



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    It used to back in the day, especially if you tried using shitty windows usb inkjets.

    Nowadays basically all printers are network printers (they are, aren’t they?) plus we have cups which is the same thing macos uses (so manufacturers actually care).



  • (I assume you meant “I created a separated /var partition”)

    You can move/resize partitions from basically any live usb (via cli or gparted for gnome and kde partition manager for kde).

    Shall you want to, you can also merge the var partition with (say) your root partition:

    1. mount both partitions in two directories (just create empty ones and mount on them, say ~/root and ~/var)
    2. inside ~/root create the new var/ directory
    3. copy the data over
    4. edit ~/root/etc/fstab (remove the line for the old var partition)
    5. use whatever partitioning tool to get rid of the actual partition and expand the previous/next one

    Be aware that you can very easily lose your data ;)

    PS: just in case, try running flatpak uninstall --unused






  • ebay, ebay, ebay (and also pcpartpicker).

    Unless you want to frag people at 4k@140Hz in the latest AAA game, you probably don’t need the latest generation components (and I’d say your requirement are quite low here, consider how the only thing you complain about is storage space).

    Unless you really want to assemble everything by yourself, consider buying one of the second-hand, previous-gen gaming rigs on ebay (but watch out for scams!). Even if you do want to assemble the PC yourself, consider buying used parts on ebay (or buying a full PC to cannibalize reselling the excess).

    What are the specs of your current rig? Except for storage, are you satisfied with how it runs? How much storage do you need for the projects you are working on? How much to archive things? Do you want to do anything about backups? Is a full size tower ok? How good a video do you want? What is your budget?



  • The problem with Chinese EVs is that they show it’s possible to innovate, keep prices down, and mass produce.

    It’s not only possible, it’s easy: you just need terrible labor and environmental standards, poor welfare, cheap access to raw materials, and tons of state subsidies :)

    It’s interesting to note that “we” knew all along it would end like this but just couldn’t resist moving/outsourcing production to China nor investing in China’s fast-growing economy.

    “We” were chasing short-term profits and China was playing the long game. Apparently, both parties won, each at their own game.

    Stop making $70K SUVs and start making $20K Taurus and Escort EVs. You did it once. You can do it again.

    The cost of batteries is (relatively) higher for cheap vehicles, so that’s the segment where it makes the most difference.







  • Sorry to be a bother, but… how do I tell hyprland I want a window to be added to a specific group?

    I was thinking of something like:

    windowrulev2 = tag texteditor, class:(myfirsteditor)
    windowrulev2 = tag texteditor, class:(mysecondeditor)
    windowrulev2 = group XXX, tag:texteditor
    

    but I can’t find what I should write instead of group XXX to tell hyprland/hy3 that I want the window to be added to a group on the left-side of workspace 1…

    I would also be fine with some rule that could be added to exec or probably even some dispatcher, but I can’t find anything that allows to target (or define) a specific group.

    Am I pursuing this from the wrong direction?