I predict China is going to feel the same car dependence pain in a few decades if they continue to ramp production and climb the cars-per-capita leader board. It’s crazy expensive to keep millions of people puttering around in multi-ton metal boxes.

Ahh I don’t think they’re going the way of the US in that regards:

Wikipedia data is a little old, but…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_China

"China’s railways are the busiest in the world. In 2019, railways in China delivered 3.660 billion passenger trips, generating 1,470.66 billion passenger-kilometres and carried 4.389 billion tonnes of freight, generating 3,018 billion cargo tonne-kilometres.[1] Freight traffic turnover has increased more than fivefold over the period 1980–2013 and passenger traffic turnover has increased more than sevenfold over the same period.[10] During the five years 2016–2020, China’s railway network handled 14.9 billion passenger trips, 9 billion of which were completed by bullet trains, the remaining 5.9 billion by conventional rail. "

This is the Chinese govt site

https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/statistics/202506/06/content_WS6842d8f6c6d0868f4e8f31d9.html

"China’s railway system transported more than 4.31 billion passengers in 2024, up 11.9 percent year on year, according to the National Railway Administration.

Railway cargo transportation volume approached 5.18 billion tonnes last year, reflecting a 2.8-percent growth compared to the previous year.

In terms of investment, China’s railway sector saw fixed-asset investment amount to 850.6 billion yuan (around 118.39 billion U.S. dollars) in 2024. During the same period, 3,113 km of new railway lines were inaugurated, about 79 percent of which are high-speed railways.

As the modern railway network continued to expand, China’s total operational length of lines reached 162,000 km in 2024, including over 48,000 km of high-speed railway lines.

Furthermore, railway transportation remained safe, stable, and orderly throughout 2024, with no severe railway traffic accidents in China, the administration added."

TL;DR They’re doing plenty of rail

I have some wooden shoes, will they do ?

EDIT

As this disappointingly seems to have gone through to slips:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabot_(shoe)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabotage#Etymology

“An alleged etymology [of sabotage] describes the actions of disgruntled workers who willfully damaged workplace machinery by throwing their sabots into the works”

Into looms…

There are plenty of Chinese ICE vehicles, what on earth are you talking about ? MG got rolling here in the UK with ICE before releasing hybrids and EVs, Chery only have ICE and hybrids here etc etc Same in Australia with BYD and the rest.

You’re poorly informed.

Colleges haven’t been training people how to read for centuries;

Yes but that is exactly the timeframe the person you replied to is discussing.

It has been quite a while since nobles were generally illiterate and needed clergy to read and write for them…centuries in fact

Employment law differs outside the US.

Being forced to sign an indemnity clause of that type is illegal and/or unenforceable in most western countries, and discovery of IT records is quite sophisticated.

Having said that, your general thrust of “it is highly unlikely” is certainly true. Someone has to have some basis for starting a suit, fishing expeditions are rarely allowed.

The C suite are rarely stupid enough to put that sort of thing in writing. It’s a conversation, no record.

Although the irony is with wfh that might be a vid conv that could get an AI auto transcript if they forget to turn it off

Iirc but cant be arsed to check, 3 models - base (rwd) mid range (awd) and premium (awd with a bigger battery)

Oh lord, don’t make me start cheering for Muskrat. Based on that article he’s on the better side of this one.

Thank you so much for the quick reply, I have somehow managed to totally break the installation altogether (it’s now bootlooping), so I’ll kill it recreate and try the above and report back.

Much appreciated

It can be considered slightly inferior depending on your viewpoint. Debian tends to have older versions of software components than Ubuntu, and there’s some Ubuntu tools that are quite handy (the graphics driver management tool is one I believe).

So, in my understanding there are good reasons they don’t just pivot to Debian. I am not on the Mint team so you’d have to talk to them, but my recollection of a press realease or interview from a few years ago was that bringing all the ubuntu stuff into LMDE and maintaining it would be a massive effort

LMDE exists as the DR plan for if Ubuntu loses the plot again and Mint can no longer rely on Ubuntu as the upstream. Yes it does create extra work, which is one of the reasons why LMDE releases tend to lag behind the primary Mint Cinnamon, but it’s worth it from the Mint perspective to have an alternative route immediately to hand.

You do realise that the Linux Kernel has Rust in it, right ?

You’ll need to go to BSD if you want to be Rust-less

https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-7-features-changes

" Linux 7.0 also declares the Rust for Linux effort as “here to stay”"

Errm read the article and don’t see any mention of Bambu - what did they do ?

Seems a fair conclusion, certainly it is warmer in London UK than London Ontario !

London (UK) has been successfully running BYD EV buses for years with no major issues. They’re cheaper than the diesels to run and quieter. Not sure why Canada had so much trouble.

I suspect that will depend on how brown the driver is…

Given the enshittification of the BBC I’d say journalist wangled a free ticket to the car show, was desperately trying to find the hook to write the story on, and asked the BYD rep something nigh on insulting like

“How can BYD be profitable when they are locked out of the world’s biggest car market ?”

And given they’re not allowed to say “We’re already doing just fine bitch, we don’t need to kiss the orange fascists taint” then you get that carefully diplomatic quote

BYD doesnt sell cars in the US according to the article so no, I don’t think BYD is spying on you.

However that other post you’re thinking of was possibly the one about the US manufacturers being forced to build in the spyware by the US govt…

Kinda the opposite to your direction of travel in tge post it seems to me ?

Well deserved

Nah we don’t know that either way on the available facts.

I had one outage which started on a Sunday and ran about 10-12hrs, 3 commercial VPNs were throttled down to 250Kb, but if you turned off the VPN or split tunneled full expected speed was reached (100Mb +). It wasn’t the VPN servers as disconnecting from wifi and going over 4G/5G worked normally.

The “outage” ended and hasn’t happened again. On the monday at least 2 of the commerical VPNs plus my work VPN were all working fine at the expected speeds and have been since. So we don’t know either way whether my work VPN was or was not affected as I didn’t think to test it.

Hypothesis 1 - I was sinbinned for too much torrent d/loading on sat night with a lock down against the VPN addresses that would have come up as the top couple of sources of large data requests (because obviously the tunnel IP address is what the ISP sees)

Hypothesis 2 - they trialled blocking popular 3rd party VPN services as you suggest (but 1 of the 3 is very obscure and def not main stream) and I was just one of those caught in it

Hypothesis 3 - Packet inspection captured torrenting activity and throttling was done because of that.

Clearly 3 is the worst scenario, 1 & 2 are quite probable - the govt is currently trying to create legislation to control VPN usage and as the largest(?) ISP Virgin would be an obvious candidate to do some tests on, and their service is so shite their customers are used to it getting shitty for random reasons.