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.

Filling gas cans abroad is already limited to 10 liter in all EU countries, above that limit you have to declare them and pay taxes.

Traders react to what they think is going to happen, not what is currently happening. Also they usually do not trade as emotionally, but rather based on processed information.
It becomes clear that this war is going to last and oil supplies will be further delayed, lowering economical prospects worldwide, which causes the market to react. A volatile market also creates some opportunities for profit as traders can gain both when the market value increases and decreases, depending on how they are trading (although it also increases risk). If you are skeptical, market manipulation is also a possibility as Trump administration is already being investigated for this.

It’s true that they probably will not start their own butcher’s shop. Then again, what do Germans need? Most want affordable meat, which requires cheap labor. They want affordable houses, which requires cheap construction workers. They want affordable logistics and shipping, which requires cheap personnel.

These jobs are never going to get a top loan because that would cause inflation for everyone. And most Germans aren’t even motivated to work there even if the wages were good, because the work is hard/irregular/dirty.

Western European countries have always needed foreign workers, many of which have become part of our society such as the people from Turkey that came here decades ago. If Germany wants to continue without their foreign workers they would be immediately having around 8 million vacancies even by removing the people who don’t have a citizenship yet. Germany has one of the most aging populations in the world, there’s not a chance those vacancies will be filled without foreign workers.

In Germany, there are truly many vacancies in some areas. For instance, there are around 35k open vacancies for nurses and this number is expected to grow to around 150k in the coming years as the baby boom generation is getting older. Most Germans just don’t like the prospect of working irregular hours and wiping elderly patients’ butts, even though wages and secondary conditions are improving for nurses.

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.

Exactly this, there’s a huge market for energy storage, where cost, power and cycle life matter way more than size and weight. And Na-ion can be produced in countries that do not have access to lithium mines, making transport less of an issue and countries more self-sustaining.

Weird reaction though, how many phone suppliers with an open bootloader and documented architecture are there really? If Fairphone doesn’t live up to their standards, I’m sure they can cooperate as a team instead of clinging to a big tech US monopolist that can make their lives hard at any moment.

Png is the right choice as it is lossless. Jpg works well for photos but it’s not designed for abstract depictions such as the lines, panes and texts in applications and web sites. Meaning artifacts become noticeable with smaller jpg file sizes.

Article says 47 Wh/kg. Thats around a third of LFP cells. But the power density is way higher. Meaning it can do enormous peak currents.

For grid energy storage, energy density is not the most important factor, but the power density is a great plus. It means these cells can rapidly charge or discharge in the grid, offering flexibility to buffer in any way that is required. And the cycle life is also way higher.

This, the Shuffle function should play every song exactly once, just in a random order. This is what cd players have been supporting since the late '80s.

It is a very simple algorithm but Spotify turned it into something complex that barely works. By default, in large playlists, it will heavily prioritize some songs while others are almost never heard. People have complained about this for years and there is an option in the settings for it now, although I am not yet sure if that setting really disables all of the “smart” algorithms Spotify has associated with shuffle.