Fair. We Europeans also don’t want US refugees who call themselves “ex-pats”.

Merz is a moron, but if the other bigger states in the EU and the UK align, Merz will follow too.

You know how long ago that guideline was approved? That was in 2023. That’s more than long enough for manufacturers to plan ahead and sell stock. The last non-USB-C iPhone was released in 2022. Apple doesn’t even sell the iPhone 15 any more, because it’s so old.

Also, there’s places outside of the EU too, so if they really have lots of left-over stock, just sell them in e.g. Eastern Europe or the UK.

TLDR: Mythos is strictly worse at finding vulnerabilities than Opus 4.6, and about on par with a specific cheapo open source 2B parameters (=> tiny and super cheap) model.

It’s all marketing and no substance.

Nah, it’s quite likely in the current climate that the EU would join in the defence of Canada.

If the USA actually starts an intra-NATO war and doesn’t just talk nonsense, everyone in the EU knows we are next. So better do a nice clean proxy war on another continent than to let it spill over to the EU once Canada is down.

I’m kinda surprised nobody has done the opposite of what’s on the OP.

I figure there would be quite a few USAians who wouldn’t mind to secede to Canada.

Watch them do it.

I came across one study a while ago (can’t be bothered to dig it up, because it was trash) that found that smokers were cheaper than non-smokers, but contrary to your study, which rightfully compares smokers to never-smokers, the study I found a while ago put people who stopped smoking right before their death into the non-smokers category.

I don’t think I have to explain why this is beyond-stupid grouping, but that study was widely shared 10 or so years ago. Might be the study that @NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml referenced.

Not only that. It’s not legally easy to offer food containing e.g. insects or sawdust.

I read about a company that were selling cookies with sawdust in them as diet products. They put “Contains sawdust to reduce calories” right on the front of the packaging and were advertising it, so a customer would not be misled at all. But it was illegal for them to sell it.

That was the case with batteries in “olden times”. Nowadays some manufacturers (looking at you, Apple) have added cryptographic security to replacement parts. In a world like that it wouldn’t be crazy that the phone could detect and reject 3rd party batteries.

Before it was “If you bring a new device to market it needs to have USB C”. Now it is “You are not allowed to sell new units of an old model that still as non-USB C”.

Specifically, that means that e.g. Apple was still allowed to sell the iPhone 14, which has lightning, but the new iPhone 15 had to have USB C. The new rule means that Apple will not be able to sell the iPhone 14 any more.

Yes, it’s still there. Waterproof for 30min at 1m, and the battery should lose maximum 20% of max charge capacity after 1000 cycles, and the battery doesn’t need to be replaceable.

That loophole makes it super easy to defeat the law. Just change the nominal battery capacity to 50% of what it is without changing the physical battery in there. Then the battery is allowed to lose a total of 60% of the maximum capacity over 1000 cycles, and that’s easy.

Done. The only change necessary for the phone is changing the nominal battery capacity in the data sheet.

the battery endurance in cycles achieves a minimum of 1 000 full charge cycles, and after 1 000 full charge cycles the battery must, in addition, have in a fully charged state, a remaining capacity of at least 80 % of the rated capacity; the device is at least dust tight and protected against immersion in water up to one meter depth for a minimum of 30 minutes."

Tbh, that completely defeats the whole law.

Doesn’t even have to be a flagship. It’s any phone really. The 1000 charge cycles thing is quite easy to do. All you have to do is to limit the capacity of the cell from the beginning. So for example, if the battery originally has 5000mAh capacity, sell it as a 4000mAh battery. That way the battery can lose 1800mAh of capacity (=> go down to 64% of the total maximum capacity) without going below the nominal 80% mark.

Then waterproof the phone, as most phones already are, and that’s it, done. No change at all needed to be done to the physical phone.