From my understanding Apple has memory contracts locked in for years ahead. This is a benefit they have for being an enormous player in the consumer electronics world. They can keep their memory prices “low” (or at least what Apple normally considers low) because of that.
Other smaller manufacturers don’t have that luxury. When their current contracts run out they have to negotiate new ones, and they will be negotiated at the current market rate.
While high oil prices are a great incentive to go with renewables instead, a sudden spike in oil prices like we have seen over the past few weeks does not really give people time to respond. Instead they just have to accept paying for higher prices for everything (give it a few months before the high price of oil and energy will have trickled down to virtually everything you buy)
Diesel is even worse, averaging € 2,486 / L or $ 10,87 / US gallon
$ 10,17 / US gallon in the Netherlands (€ 2,336 / L)
This is in no way a justification for what Google is doing, but they came to a “compromise” where you can still opt-in to being allowed to “sideload unverified apps” (read: install apps that didn’t have to get approval from Google).
You have to enable it in the settings, and then you need to wait 24 hours before the setting is enabled. After that you can continue to run “unverified” apps
I am not familiar with Empower (ride sharing apps are illegal here in the NL) but that used to be the case too with Uber and Lyft, back before they established themselves and needed to increase profitability
I think the majority of people at this point don’t have a computer with a CD / DVD burner anymore. And at least over here the supermarket also does not sell blank CDs / DVDs anymore.
Most people would have to go out of their way to acquire the means to burn their own CDs
And that is the tactic commonly used to slowly boil the frog.
Imagine trying to blackmail the police…
The police fucked up by sending him the files and there should probably be an investigation as to how that could happen, but that doesn’t mean the man just gets to keep those files and do with them however he pleases.
Edit: To the people who are downvoting me, consider that these are confidential police files. The guy has no business keeping these files, and the demand of the police that he deletes these files is completely justified.
If he simply complied (without attempted blackmail) the arrest and house search would not have been necessary.
The military wants the best equipment, and currently in terms of specs that is the F-35.
That comes with a dependence on the United States, which at the time of purchasing these jets was not considered to be a particular concern because America is a good ally and a part of NATO.
Following Trump’s re-election and antics over Greenland, that calculation is now different. It might not be worth it to buy new F-35s at this point (though Germany seems to be considering it still), but the Dutch army has pre-existing F-35s which we should be able to use even if America doesn’t want us to for whatever reason.
At this point for the purchase of new jets we really should be looking at the new Eurofighter though, imo
As if Trump actually cares about Melania
It is not disabled yet, but they will be resticting age gated channels by the end of the month to anyone who hasn’t provided them with a copy of their ID
Worth noting that Discord had a pretty bad data leak a few months back, where it turned out the ID verification company they hired was not deleting the IDs after they were checked
Edit: I’m not completely against the idea of age checks for adult content, but it needs to be implemented in a transpatent manner, and the verification should be non-traceable.
The EU appears to be working on a pretty solid solution as part of their digital wallet.
But that is not what Discord is using.
Edit 2: Added some relevant links
Streaming is progress in terms of convenience, but the trade-off is a lower image quality and forgoing ownership of the media you buy/consume.
These days I buy Blurays and rip them to my Jellyfin server. Worth it for me, but I would hardly call that process convenient.
I think that is incorrect. They discontinued the model X and model S, meaning they are only going to focus on the model 3 and model Y (which are their better selling models)
Probably best to make a report, that way they see it.
Dus dat betekent weer vier jaar waar ze niks voor elkaar gaan krijgen. Dankjewel VVD
Risky bet as NATO would probably not survive the US invading another member. If NATO dissolves I would argue that that is defeat.
It is not quite that bleak. They went from 100% EV for all new car sales in 2035, to 90% EVs and 10% being allowed as combustion engine cars.
That 10%'s emissions also has to be offset by EVs sold. And they are introducing a new M1E category for cars that needs to be Electric, European-built, and under 4.2 meters in length (Volkswagen Golf or smaller essentially). Each M1E car sold will count for 1.3 regular cars sold in terms of offset.
So essentially Europe is dangling a carrot to produce small, European-made EVs for the car manufacturers. And car manufacturers still need to produce 90% of their cars as EVs
Just like how you are able to obtain citizenship in the US without being born in the US, you are also able to obtain citizenship in a coutries with descent-based citizenship without your parents being citizens of that country.
A descent-based system would also have worked in the US. Immigrants who want to become citizens need to apply for citizenship under both systems.