OMG not the Krebs cycle! Can we do Linux From Scratch instead?

I can tell the difference.

I concur. Although you can’t get one right away. I think you’d have to wait a few months at this point.

Prolly /c/opensource

I’ll def buy some of these for a camping batt as the B-grade cells get thrown on Ali.

That’s such a big problem…

All true, however the consumers of the finished battery cells would be North American EV production, because there’s large scale battery production in the rest of the world. Maybe the EU could import some. Or maybe they’ll just want raw material for their battery factories. But on our end, as far as I’m aware everyone of the auto manufacturers here is cancelling or scaling down their Canadian EV plans. The EV landscape in the US doesn’t look good either with Trump actively working to undermine them. Point being that without considering the Chinese EVs, the investments that haven’t been cancelled yet, already are at risk. I expect investors being fickle as they are, especially during uncertainty and downturns, to cancel further supply chain investments, unless our gov’t steps in. And I think our gov’t should step in but less to prop them up and more to buy these projects and put them under a crown corp that develops these resources. That still leaves us with the problem of what to put those batteries in. Chinese EVs built here could fulfill that role. Any such work should start early so that it can be operational by the time the batt supply chain is up. As for direct imports, those would compete with ICE vehicles built in NA. That poses a risk to Canadian auto manufacturing since we only build ICE. But we do have a problem with auto prices the rest of the economy so the gov’t has to consider that risk vs the risk of layoffs. For example the price of the F-150 used across the construction industry is a cost for the tradespeople working in it. Finally if we consider the worst case scenario where we get mass layoffs due to Trump’s actions, then the high vehicle price problem would become more significant for a lot of people who have their incomes slashed. That’s where cheaper direct imports could help dampen the impact on our car-dependent economy. If I were Carney, I’d probably model these scenarios and if here’s a benefit, set appropriate taxes/quotas on these EVs to achieve it, and change it as needed to match the rest of the economic context. As for new factories, I’d start those yesterday.

and have a good experience on fedi?

Be excellent to newcomers and each other!

Just three years after Canada called China a “disruptive global power,” Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada now views Beijing as a strategic partner in a dangerous world.

“We must be nuanced in our diplomacy. We must stress our concerns relating to security and public safety on the one hand, and we must seek to build additional supply chains on the other. That is pragmatism,” she said.

A much welcomed change given the US has tanked multiple parts of our economy within less than 9 months of this presidency. And strategic partnership is the right approach. We could also use this as leverage in our negotiations with the US. That is if negotiations resume after the abrupt bullshit Mango Mussolini pulled today.

Can’t make this shit up:

Worse, a lot of US manufacturing is dependent on products of China’s manufacturing output. Destin from SmarterEveryDay tried to make a BBQ brush in America with no foreign components. He couldn’t find chainmail made locally. He bought some supposedly Indian one which turned out to actually be made in China. It’s crazy.

Ouch.

Holy fuck, the avg price for LFP was around $60/kWh last year and this is starting at a third of that.

If power consumption isn’t a huge deal, then an Intel-based Mini PC. This will allow you to do transcoding for streaming as well as any other more CPU-intensive task. It also gives you stellar USB 5Gb support which can be used for quite a large storage pool. I’m running a 5x 16TB ZFS pool on an Intel-based Lenovo mini PC. It’s in a multi-bay USB box. Unfortunately AMD’s pre-Zen 5 USB controllers aren’t reliable for this use case which is why I recommend Intel. Pre-Zen 5 AMD-based mini PCs might be OK with one disk per USB port, but as soon as you peg a USB port to its limit, you start running into USB resets.

TIL: Nexperia also sold itself to a Chinese firm.

Also:

Nexperia produces large volumes of semiconductors in the Netherlands, which are widely used in the automotive industry and consumer electronics. The majority are packaged in China, from where they are sold back into global industries.

If you’re going to nationalize a firm, its operations better be happening entirely within your borders. 🤦

Could be. I’m just watching the rate at which the AfD is growing in the polls and it makes me think they may not need them.

AfD don’t want his fake ass, they’ll replace his party in the next election.

OMG of course it’s called “X Chat.” This guy has the creativity of a brick.

Also there’s multiple existing chat tools called some version of “X Chat.”

They better be built on FOSS. Not only that would help with the market failures others highlighted in this thread, but it would produce an industry American firms can’t compete with due to the lower software cost. Software implemented once, then shared at no additional cost is a significant competitive advantage than having to have dedicated softwate teams implementing the same things at every corporation but differently, in order to create lock-in.

In practice firms consolidate regardleas of individual wallet voting. Wallet voting has no bearing on one corporation acquiring another. It has also no bearing on a few corporations dividing the user base amongst each other through lock-in and unofficial cooperation. If wallet voting was a strong influence, pervasive market failure wouldn’t be a thing. The fact is that firms accumulate financial capital over time, buy failed competitors along with their customers, then rinse and repeat until there’s few firms left. And they have vastly more money and therefore vasrly more “votes” that they use in various “elections” than individuals. Individual wallet voting could only ever work if massively organized and that is extremely difficult to achieve. Not the least due to these same firms spending their capital to keep individuals from collectively voting, via various well-known behaviour modificaton techniques.

And the anti-competitive practices won’t stop unless we persistently step on corporations’ necks. Capitalism incentivizes these behaviours.