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by rzerowan 1y ago
Latest Office or Microsoft365 is being turned almost into a Saas wrapper for the online app , while having an always on siphon for your data to the MScloud and ADs, so many intrusive ads all overthe place. If its an older version that works
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by rzerowan 1y ago
I think the main issue for most casual users is the office suite and browser. LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org unfortunately do not cut it for quirky functionality/aesthetics etc. The most polished alternatives Corel and WPS Office only
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Yep the big three plus Huawei with a bit of an edge on them with te standard essential patent , that they collaborate in a pool with.Although in the matter of mobile modems/radios Qualcomm has an edge over all the others - not so much
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Not a direct competitor, they are at a No3 slot behind Ericsson with a small global footprintmainly concentrated in NorthAmerica and some EU markets. However most of the 5G/5G+ patents are Huawei owned and FRAND so in any case the enti
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by rzerowan 1y ago
I think for generic OEMs that may hold , however for manufactures like Huawei with their matebookX line the build quality is pretty much on-par while the components and options being offthe shelf standard means it should be easier to upgra
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Side effects should be predictably annoying from this. Even in opensource reminded of the fact that many Linux distros have instructions banning transfer to official US enemies , by virtue of being primarily US base entities. And with the r
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Hmm , considering theres some other piece of news out there stating "Trump administration considering eliminating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)" [0] , makes this look like a turf war between the two . Go
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Fingers crossed for convergence rather than divergence in the technical standards.Although the way hings are going it looks like the 2 stacks will diverge sooner rather than later , with the US+ banning the use of CHN models while simultane
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Clearly in this case very destructive, constuctive gets people to the moon and back. With retaliation loading from Beijing , looks like this company is dead/on life support going forward. This action has benfitted none of the entities
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Update from the Amsterdam Court of appeal[0] , as expected large amount of pressure from the USG as well as some pressure on the CEO after the latest US 50% rule that triggered the RE restictions. - US telling Nexperia to ditch its Chinese
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Maybe pressure from the US gov? As a negotiatingtactic vs China - remeber the moves against MotorSich in Ukraine some years back , where the deal was win-win for both but Washington put the kibosh on it and ultimately got destroyed by Russi
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by rzerowan 1y ago
alt link https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3328726/ch...
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Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia(ft.com)
29 points by rzerowan 1y ago|2 comments
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by rzerowan 1y ago
At the scale and specificity , lets take magnets - theres magnets and theres magnets , if youre using them in mil/aero tolerances required are going to be much higher with lower failure rates. Think the way rad-hardened cpus for satel
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by rzerowan 1y ago
RE elemets mining/refining is ~80% China dominated, even US and other producers mined ores go to China for refinement.The concentrations are ridiculous for the process, think several tons to extract some kilos. Then theres the heavy R
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Considering DeepSeek had a peer-reviewd analysis in nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09422-z relaes just last month with indipendent researcher affriming that the open model has some issues(acknowldged
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Well we do have the precedent of HPE/Autonomy in the UK [1], which ruled that the process is essentially fraud. Whether there will be a prosecution in the current corporate environment remains to be seen. Essentially though the roundtr
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Its the same loop de loop NVIDIA is doing with Coreweave as i understand.'Investing' in coreweave which then 'buys' NVIDIA merch for cloud rental , resulting in Coreweave being the top 4 customers of NVIDIA chips.
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Theres the little matter of the US imposed Plaza Accords that have been skipped in the timeline there , which are widely acknowledged to have precipitated Japan's lost decades.
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by rzerowan 1y ago
Also there is the result that from IP to service and support the Gov will get washed.Leading to a lack of expertise and ownership. It essentially becomes little more than a rental - not owned, serviced or extended unless at the whims of the