The auto industry does not have a choice. They need batteries and will not get them from European suppliers, as they cannot deliver the same cost and quality AND they need the growing wealthy population there to keep their bottom line up.

Maybe 5-10 years down the line there will be enough forcing of Chinese battery suppliers to open factories in Europe to reverse this, but it is not going to happen soon. Maybe the tarrifs will speed this up, maybe not.

Bluetooth and the 2.4 GHz ISM band is not electricity and is highly resilient to moderate noise over short distances. Problems are usually caused by hardware related issues.

I would argue all connected cars have become that. If you’re buying anything newer than 2015, in all likelihood it’s a spyware filled go-kart.

To be fair, this is pretty much the story of any right wing politician too… at least this girl (arguably) didn’t ruin the lives of millions.

Not linked to your identity…

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Identifiers…

This seems contradictory. I’ll avoid them for now, thanks!

I’m curous about these, how is the privacy on the apps? Having my data mined from my lightbulbs is my last consideration against taking the step tbh

What?

Obviously, more plants are needed to combat the destructive USB industry.

The data in this article is based off info from 2022.

The reduction in price appears to have been significantly underestimated in the article linked.

We’re not there yet. To me the obvious would be to explain to them something like browsing the internet is similar to being alone in the world’s biggest city and you cannot always be there to protect them whilst online?

I am definitely over simplifying it, but I feel portraying the message that there are good people, bad people and absolutely abhorrent people, is all you can do to protect kids online. Also that everyone takes a big step to the dark side when they are anonymous because for some reason, watching a train crash is more interesting to us that watching one drive past.

I never really thought about controlling screen times for anything other than to make sure kids’ heads spend some time in reality, do you feel it is an effective or important tool for protection too?

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The paper itself, which is linked in the BBC article, is quite a read too Original Article

As clarification I meant: “do people in Australia care about the tiny black and white sticker on the box which says “M - rated for mature audiences” now?”

and not: “why should the global community give a damn about Australia…”.

I remember cinemas were always strict with entry into movies, but game shops never used to ask for ID. Has this changed?

No one cares about game ratings in Australia, do they?

Awesome, thanks for the info. Really appreciate it!

Much appreciated. There’s a few brands relatively new to the EU e.g Haier. Any thoughts on their quality? Or is this something you really can’t go cheaper on?

You mean more frequently meaning smaller loads, right? At the moment it’s about one 8kg load every 1.5 days, so in winter it’s not long enough to dry. Might try a fan setup in the immediate term though and see how it goes.

I looked at those and figured the additional cost, plus only one load being washed at a time may be a bit annoying… But realistically, I’ll have to see if one load per day is enough. Thanks!

EU based, but thanks for the message either way!

Hard disagree. Tipping should be abolished and restaurants forced to pay a living wage should be the only regulation around tipping.