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[ficker22]

Any plans for you to leave Germany and head for greener pastures?

Currently no (as in the next 10-15 years), I have a save job and my tuition is being paid for, I do reckon that there are other nations which offer over higher QoL, as in more pedestrian friendly cities, politically more aligned with my views etc., but having paid tuition through scholarship + a high paying job with future perspective is

a.) Quite rare in germany nowadays
b.) Making me very complacent with current things


I complain ALOT about the current trajectory of german foreign, domestic and economical policy, but frankly I am still very young (in SDF terms) and already have stable financial conditions, I only see it with my high school friends and all those who weren't as fortunate as me and now are wagey slaves with their beginning 20's having trouble feeding themselves studying subjects that probably aren't even yielding jobs due to the ecnomic situation today.


This and coupled with the unnecssary deindustrialisation and a government that is 100% complicit with american sabotage just makes my blood boil from time to time.

Germany's future just wont be good, the 2000's and 2010's were our prime .


Europe in general, I consider part of the blob of american aligned lackeys, maybe austria and swizerland are a bit better than germany + they do speak german there, but all the other European nations are quite as cucked as germany.

 

[Sardaukar20]

CGTN's review of Loongson 3A6000 PC. A PC made with fully Chinese components except the AMD GPU. OS is a Linux-based homegrown Chinese OS. The Loongson's CPU is competitive only against older Intel CPUs. The OS is relatively friendly for Windows users, but is still a work in progress.

All in all, it's definitely not the most impressive PC out there. CGTN was obviously positive about this PC, but is also quite objective to point out its current limitations. Nevertheless, considering China's position in the PC manufacturing world, this is a more than impressive start. No other non-US country have come this close to producing a fully homegrown PC up to this level of competitiveness.

This is exciting news for me, because China had narrowed significant technological gap against the US. I can't wait for the day when China can produce a PC with its own OS that could give decent competition to US brands.

 

[ficker22]

Lol just look at his pose.

Baerbock and her party of American bootlickers are such an embarrassment for the "powerhouse of europe"

Not a powerhouse in any means today, look at our national football (soccer) team, it is China national team level nowadays, 1:4 lose against japan...

 

[james smith esq]

Exactly. There are at least 4 ports to load-unload between India and Greece, compared to just one direct transit through the Suez Canal. The British Empire built the Empire Suez Canal in 1859 as a shortcut shipping route between Britain and the British Raj. So those Jai Hind and Western clowns are proposing a solution to a problem that was already solved 153 years ago. And this route is not even optimized.

They could have optimized this route by building a cross-border railway line through the bulk of the Middle East, northeast of the Persian Gulf. Through maybe Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and then Central Europe.
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But oh wait... India doesn't like Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey? And they don't like India too?

Plus many of them are already on the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor. The first freight train from China had already crossed it 2016, from Xi'an to Prague, in 18-days.
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Jeez, this India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor is gonna be more complex and costly to operate, 100% more costly to build, built by nations who can't even maintain their own infrastructures, have no idea where the money is gonna come from, and is proposed 7 years behind an already completed BRI competing route.

The bigger question is who is gonna benefit more? India is definitely gonna import lots of stuff from the Gulf Arab states, Israel, and Europe. But what can India ship back to them in return apart from agriculture products, low value goods, and some pharma products? India is not the world's factory like China was when it initiated BRI. Make in India has not been gaining any traction, despite all the hype since 2014.

This is what happens when a mega projects are planned by clowns, only with political objectives.

Wasn’t the canal built by the French?

 

[Sardaukar20]

Wasn’t the canal built by the French?

Yes, you're right. My history was wrong. The canal was built by the French with mix govt-private funding. The British opposed it at that time due to its colonial checkpoint in South Africa. The British eventually invaded and captured Suez in 1882 after panicking upon seeing its success.

Nevertheless, despite my historical inaccuracy. My argument is that the Suez Canal had already solved the problem of the long shipping route between India and Europe 153 years ago. So the current India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor is just not a practical project to improve shipping between India, Middle East, and Europe. It is just a hyped-up political project.

 

[daifo]

CGTN's review of Loongson 3A6000 PC. A PC made with fully Chinese components except the AMD GPU. OS is a Linux-based homegrown Chinese OS. The Loongson's CPU is competitive only against older Intel CPUs. The OS is relatively friendly for Windows users, but is still a work in progress.

All in all, it's definitely not the most impressive PC out there. CGTN was obviously positive about this PC, but is also quite objective to point out its current limitations. Nevertheless, considering China's position in the PC manufacturing world, this is a more than impressive start. No other non-US country have come this close to producing a fully homegrown PC up to this level of competitiveness.

This is exciting news for me, because China had narrowed significant technological gap against the US. I can't wait for the day when China can produce a PC with its own OS that could give decent competition to US brands.

From what I can tell its a fine machine for everyday task for most people, the biggest hurdle is actually price competitiveness in that price range. If you just need to get some office work / programming done / light video editing etc, there are plenty of Chinese manufacture complete minipc with intel n and amd ryzen 5 mobile chips in that 100-350$ range.

ChromeOS was gotten 10%+ marketshare by being cheap and focusing on school and "good enough." MacOS has gotten 10%+ share by being choice of Creative and being "premium." These Chinese companies will need to find its niche. At the moment they have many potencial choices wintel, macos, native arm , native intel , loongson, future risc-v ....

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

USV - Unmanned Surface Vehicle. Having a crew onboard means it’s not unmanned?

I believe you need to re-read my previous post. And I'll explain it some more bit down below.

Anyways, these things are meant to be disposables and mass produced. If they get damaged and not sunk, they can be towed back to port for repairs.

All navies around the world would definitely want as few of their warships to slip underneath the waves when getting towed back to port for repairs as possible, too. And effective damage control is key to achieving that, which I believe that still very much require human supervision and intervention, especially for larger-size ships, which I have explained in my above post.

Besides, as a matter of fact: Small-USVs (SUSV) like the JARI USVs are very different from the Large-USVs (LUSV). One is only in the X0-tons of displacement range, while the other is in the X000-tons of displacement range. All the costs, material and effort invested for the development, construction, operation and upkeep of the SUSV and LUSV respectively are of the 天差地别-type of different, such that it would be very unhelpful and wasteful to the Chinese war effort by grouping them in the same category (i.e. meant to be disposable).

Nobody would think that "Yeah, us losing many X000-ton ships is perfectly fine, since that is basically the same as us losing many X0-ton boats." This is true regardless of whether the boats or ships are conventionally, minimally, optionally or un-manned.

 

[BlackWindMnt]

Currently no (as in the next 10-15 years), I have a save job and my tuition is being paid for, I do reckon that there are other nations which offer over higher QoL, as in more pedestrian friendly cities, politically more aligned with my views etc., but having paid tuition through scholarship + a high paying job with future perspective is

a.) Quite rare in germany nowadays
b.) Making me very complacent with current things


I complain ALOT about the current trajectory of german foreign, domestic and economical policy, but frankly I am still very young (in SDF terms) and already have stable financial conditions, I only see it with my high school friends and all those who weren't as fortunate as me and now are wagey slaves with their beginning 20's having trouble feeding themselves studying subjects that probably aren't even yielding jobs due to the ecnomic situation today.


This and coupled with the unnecssary deindustrialisation and a government that is 100% complicit with american sabotage just makes my blood boil from time to time.

Germany's future just wont be good, the 2000's and 2010's were our prime .


Europe in general, I consider part of the blob of american aligned lackeys, maybe austria and swizerland are a bit better than germany + they do speak german there, but all the other European nations are quite as cucked as germany.

That sounds like a good plan achieve some seniority in your occupation. While It's true Europe will stagnate and I'm of the opinion it already had a lost decade since 2008. It's still a good place to be, but it's so boring in western Europe it feels like we can only look into the past because the future looks kind of meh there's no big European dream/project or something.

That is one the reason I'm leaving next year I will most likely go and try to find a job in Hong Kong or shenzhen and will leave for at least 4 to 6 years. If I like Hong Kong enough, I heard you can get permanent residency after 7 years..Maybe I will go for Hong Kong permanent residency. Also better pay as a software engineer looking at glass door and LinkedIn posts and also lower taxes.

 

[Sardaukar20]

From what I can tell its a fine machine for everyday task for most people, the biggest hurdle is actually price competitiveness in that price range. If you just need to get some office work / programming done / light video editing etc, there are plenty of Chinese manufacture complete minipc with intel n and amd ryzen 5 mobile chips in that 100-300$ range

Off course its much cheaper to source outdated Intel and Ryzen and produce a competitive mini-pc. But it is exactly this extreme reliance on Western PC hardware that had always troubled China's tech sector. It was much cheaper for Huawei to source Qualcomm chips until the US decided to sanction them. So, China had no choice but to breakout of the US-dominated hardware and software monopoly.

The current iteration of the Chinese homegrown PC is not spec and price competitive. We shouldn't look at it just from this angle. This is still a work in progress. The Chinese PC developers are not gonna care too much about sales to fund the R&D. They are gonna rely mainly on government funding and favour, because this is a national mission of high-priority. What matters now are milestones and breakthroughs. The current Chinese PC, for all its limitations and flaws, is a still significant breakthrough.

 

[Abominable]

Wait you are not even supposed to learn about China even if it is a part of your job? What kind of sick joke is this?

I think there's more to it than just that. Intelligence agencies do exist, and agents do get recruited. The rumours are he was honeypotted.

What's also interesting is that this happened 6 months ago, it's only being reported on now. I suspect the government wanted to keep it under wraps to avoid having the FM visit to China cancelled.