I don't see that as any more desirable than a US or Russian CEO doing the same. It's all wage slavery for the people generating those profits, and it's all gravy for the CEOs to funnel into offshore accounts. Only funding a worker coop would make it more ethical and desirable, regardless of geographic location/regime, IMHO.

Wouldn't the surplus profit just go to the CEO of of the company? I can't imagine there's much difference for the average worker in China between mass manufacturing PC's for direct sale vs. Mass manufacturing for another brand.

I don't believe there's many worker coops building PCs, unfortunately.

Matrix is the closest replacement, and XMPP can replicate some functionality too.

You'd probably enjoy his normal content then! He makes great stuff.

If you're not sure what StopKillingGames is about, the creator of the campaign, Ross Scott (of Freeman's Mind fame) made this short video to give the rundown.

Fahrenheit 451 is certainly worth a read. I read it late in life, and could see immediately why it's so often read in schools. Very well written, and a compelling story.

Another book that you may find quite personally compelling is The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Archive.org has a free audio book version), due to the themes it covers.

Anecdotally, my Pixel 4a which I have dropped multiple times still looks and works like new, even the battery is great!

I too had an otterbox case, which I think helped with those falls.

Rest in peace, Paul. Your Christmas and Thanksgiving cooking specials will be missed the most.

If you haven't come across an Ahoy video, then you'd be in for a treat, as he has pretty excellent production values and has a way of turning mundane information into a compelling story. In this video in particular, he shows us his search for the real sales figures for the Amiga after showing the current information was basically heresay with an unreliable source.

After this video was put up, it became the new official source linked to on Wikipedia as the most accurate estimate of total Amiga sales.

The information I've seen regarding deep discharge life-cycle for sodium ion is that the latest tech is actually extremely good, at least according to this. I don't see how the lower voltage is a problem, since for grid situations you'll have step-up transformers anyway, and the batteries can just be hooked up in series to increase the voltage.

They use abundant materials, will be much cheaper than lithium ion, don't need to be actively cooled, and massively lessen the risk of rupture and fires.

The low density per unit of weight isn't relevant for grid storage, so they seem pretty ideal.

Sodium batteries require very little rare earths in comparison to lithium batteries.

Sodium electric batteries, like the type that CATL developed? Or do you mean hot molten salt thermal batteries? Because I think the other poster is referring to the first kind.