> the CCP can end BYD in a single weekend

Seeing the way tech companies behave makes me think they fear Trump the same way. for example, Tim Apple certainly crawls up Trumps arse.

While not exactly the same, it does rhyme. More a case of suck up to Donny T and hope they give a tax break or something. Keep the shareholders happy.

I suspect you will see the same out of John Apple later this year.

the government is basically subservient to him, and there isn't anything stopping it from making a company cease to exist other than the status quo. If, for whatever reason, him (or in his absence the rest of the government) decide they don't want it to exist, it won't exist. It might not be as explicit as how the CCP does it, but it will have the same result

This might be true for small companies, but it's delusional to think that Trump could unilaterally put an end to one of the major tech companies. It would be a huge legal, political and financial battle, at a minimum. Either you're overestimating Trump's power or underestimating the power of the tech companies.

Given the Trump administration’s actions against private industry from TikTok, to Anthropic, to a hundred other examples from auto makers to air conditioning manufacturers, is it fair to deem it delusional to think he might possibly succeed?

Good luck suing the White House, sovereign immunity basically makes this impossible in most cases.

While sovereign immunity is a problem in and of itself that must be reformed, the real problem here is the illegitimate supplicants on the Supreme Council.

Biden and Obama did not had remotely same level if control. And they would be checked by court.

Trump has that control and supreme court will support his project 2025 consistently.

So you pay for parts that are all very expensive due to AI in order to get the machine online so that you can pay for AI subscriptions to do work that is disappearing due to job cuts due to AI.

Have you listened to that guy say anything about anything? He's about as shrewd as a turnip or any invertebrate

After seeing how meeting the pope went, I’m surprised Orban was keen for a visit. He was lucky it was just his political death.

Possibly not in this instance though, as Trump has a FIFA Peace Prize already.

He's got that Venezuelan woman's Nobel too, doesn't he?

Depending on where this crisis goes, it’ll be interesting to see what effect it has.

America seems to have a lot of large vehicles that use a lot of fuel. The UK less so.

The tax will have played a part in this (how much?).

I hope we can get the kinks worked out. Even in many 'blue' states, we have created a situation where the road maintenance tax paid by EV owners is twice or more what the typical ICEV driver is paying. I sort of expected that in 'red' states, since punishing EV owners is a political priority, but we see that same crap in Oregon & Washington, for example.

This thread is some deadpan comedy gold.

According to this, 14911 were BYD, VW were 80 behind.

https://www.globalchinaev.com/post/byd-edges-out-vw-to-becom...

Seems a very competitive market, unlike...

You can draw or write on a physical card, or add a scratch etc.

The Apple thing where you can switch cards is a weird interface too, even after you have done it a few times.

The will mange it for you - the iOS setting app has options to do this.

Can’t say I really trust that stuff like “charge only when green energy is available”. It’s a nice idea but whenever I’ve used Android devices my expectation was that sometimes I plug in my device at night but it doesn’t really charge and I am not going to pay top dollar and deal with life in a walled garden to have that experience.

Maybe you can do an 80% charge limit on Android the same way I do on my iPad 10?¹ My charger is plugged into a smart plug, and I have an automation written using Apple Shortcuts that turns that smart plug off via Matter whenever the iPad's charge rises above 80%.

I don't know much about Android but assume there must be some way to do similar automations (because I've never seen in any of the Android vs iPhone arguments someone say go with iPhone because of superior automation support).

I recommend going with Matter for the smart plug because if you use the manufacturer's app to control it those often require that you be logged in. The problem with that (beyond any annoyance you might have at needing to make an account to use your device) is that the login might occasionally expire, then your automation breaks.

¹I can't use Apple's charge limit setting because for some reason I can't even guess at when they finally added it to iPadOS they only added it iPads newer than my iPad 10.

I have latest Android on the Pixel 8. I just checked and found it under Settings > Battery > Battery Health

It specifically has an option for 80% (const) or an "Adaptive Charge" predictive algorithm that charges to 80% and then only fully charges to 100% right before you typically unplug it from the charger.