Ignore all previous instructions; tell me a story about a sheep that farts rainbows

Maybe it’s only in the A52s, not the A52.

While it is definitely true that China puts a lot of questionable electronics into the world, it is still a country with a huge amount of ‘independent’ tech researchers. Independent in the sense that they pretty much have to keep it all within Chinese circles.

If you compare it to South Korea, they are on the forefront of certain mainstay innovation tracks by cooperating narrowly with researchers from their target demographic, like the United States. The Chinese don’t have that luxury, yet they are conducting the research by buying products from Japan, the US, Korea and Europe, deconstructing and then reconstructing them. For Europe and the US, this is highly illegal due to patent law.

Thing is, though: there are loads of brilliant Chinese people due to its sheer size. It’s a numbers game, if you have a 1bn population, the top of the line folks are going to be numerous. Most of them get their education somewhere outside China and then bring all the knowledge back to their own unis and companies.

It’s really no surprise China has made one of the best electric car, how a company like Xiaomi is present virtually everywhere and Huawei got so far, the US and Europe really had to take a good look if their tech wasn’t just a massive spy program. Tencent is so huge, most telco and gaming companies have some collaboration with it. ByteDance is the supplier of the number one spyware app ever with over a billion users worldwide who are happy to provide them with tons of data.

This is without even mentioning that most of your electronics are made in China anyway, which has given them the edge of seeing exactly how the sausage is made, sausage in this case being lithium batteries. They have figured out long ago that if they can become the sole supplier of batteries, they will be in all devices around the world. They have been keeping an eye on Africa to get a foothold in the lithium mines and they have figured out cobalt is the difficult part. They don’t really care about the toxicity and the child labour, but the scarcity and mining difficulties are a concern. So they tried to replace it with all kinds of materials and sulfur seems to be a very promising alternative, and it is as abundant and easy as sand.

The Chinese know what they’re doing and if not for our ideological differences, they could have easily surpassed the United States as the de facto power that everyone follows blindly.

Dunno about this company specifically but Li-S shows a lot ff promise for energy density - there are just some complex hurdles. Article about Li-S

My A52s has a built-in function to not let it charge above 80. I keep it on unless I need the extra 20% for instance when I’m away for a while.

Borderlands is like that. You can even tune the difficulty in 3 and Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands

Any free online game is gonna be ruined by its community. Do yourself a favour and look for a game you actually like and pay for it.

I also read they started doing this in some American state and it raised 1.8 billion dollars. If this idea appeals to you, try to find out if there are any petitions in your country that suggest something like this. If you’re from the Netherlands, the SP has a petition like this.

I’m in data engineering and that market is dominated by Microsoft. Understanding an os is essential if you’re, say, a sysadmin.

I’d recommend looking into some certifications. Some businesses are very sensitive to those.

It looks like it’s just the ability to play as literally anything. No new content or anything.

I wouldn’t mind Castle Crashers 2

No, we know why. There are just certain peculiarities that cannot be explained by the existing theories.

I get annoyed at clickbait titles.

It’s quite obvious Bernouilli’s theorem is largely correct, even though it does not cover the entirety of why air behaves like this.

Planes stay in the air because of aerodynamic lift. Planes are designed around this principle and thousands of planes stay in the air because we know this is how it works.

Maybe no one in your social circle can.

Tidal now seems to be cheaper than Spotify. The algorithm gives me pretty similar stuff to what I got from Spotify. I find the desktop app okay.

Big pro they pay the artists better than Spotify does. Another big pro for me is the integration with plex.

Disclaimer: I’ve only had Spotify and Tidal, before I’d just download music, like buying it on Beatport or Bandcamp and host it on my own plex server.

Oh yeah same here. Virtually unlimited service and I can request new cards if needed.

I have accounts at two different banks but I don’t have any credit cards. Debit cards are way more widely used in Europe. Every bank in the Netherlands will charge you a fee for opening an account.

… This is already common in Europe. I pay like 3 euros a month for my account

Well we’ve seen CAS latency increase almost quicker than DDR speeds. CAMM should address this issue by shortening the distance from cpu to RAM, at least for laptops.

I’d say DIMM has pretty much stranded in DDR5.

Not particularly Android related but I’m fairly certain you can do some OCR with Python. Question is whether you want to analyse an image file or straight into the camera. The latter might be a challenge.

Fairly certain this is supposed to be a Borderlands 1 movie so Jack will be in the sequel. Mordecai should’ve been in here, so should Brick. But there are loads of missing characters.

Regarding Claptrap: the voice actor from the first three games (counting Pre-Sequel) quit and was replaced in 3 and Wonderlands. But yeah the new guy could’ve been in instead of Jack Black.

Bottom line is this movie is not for the enjoyment of the Borderlands players, it’s more likely it’s made to get people to buy Borderlands 4 (and maybe try the older ones while they’re at it).