I had a look at the original report by BYD as the site linked by the other commenter didn’t include the information and seemed AI generated (some numbers were actually a bit of, though not by much). According to it the 1.86$ billion are the only directly paid subsidies BYD received in 2025. All other subsidies were loans with favorable conditions, which aren’t directly relevant (The report is 300+ pages long I may have missed something) Source. Currently Germany supports all EV purchase, so the 2.4$ billion should not be counted, but according to the BAFA this is planned/considered to be made exclusive to EU made cars. Source (German). The 6.4$ billion should IMO be counted against the 1.86$ billion as they are both direct founding, and apparently the only direct. While a bit lower this still places VW in the about a billion dollar (925$ million). Additionally, even though the subsidies are universal the EU has placed a tariff on Chinese EVs since 2024 that ranges from 27%-47% depeding on the manufacturer. Source. The working conditions and wages at BYD are of course lower than at VW, even if this is partially countered by the lower standard of living in China, however we don’t no how much of the final car the companies actually produce (how much of it is done by them and not just bought premade, likely in China).

Anyway I don’t think this comparison could ever be 100% fair as China and Germany have different economic models, Germany already established its car industry while Chinas is still relatively up and coming etc. I do however think that it is not accurate to say “they are cheaper because government subsidies” as there are many more factors.

Many countries subsidiese their car brands. In Germany exact numbers are not known, because the government works for the companies I guess, but most experts assume that brands like Volkswagen receive about 1 billion euros (or 1.15 billion US dollars) a year. Source A Source B. I’m no expert for other countries, but a quick research lead to the claim that until 2015 Tesla and the adjacent businesses (SpaceX etc.) had received 4.9 billion US dollars in subsidies Source. I don’t think its fair to say that they are cheap just because they receive subsidies, they are just getting what everyone else is.

Murenas statement on the ids used for OTA updates:

For context, and I agree that this feature can be perceived with mixed feelings, especially because it was stupidly called „licence ID“ at the beginning of its implementation, we added it because we suffered from not having good statistics on /e/OS usage.

Of course we are not interested in tracking users at all, but we do want to know how many devices are running this or that build of /e/OS. This is very useful for making some decisions about device support and setting priorities for future development.

Just running statistics on OTA server request logs along with the device model didn’t give good results.

Now, and this is still part of our internal discussions, if we are able to find a way to get good quality stats without this OTA anon-unique identifier, we will consider it.

However, we sincerely believe that this anonID probably has no impact on user privacy (tracking IPs or device fingerprints would probably be much worse).

You can reset the id via ADB:

adb shell settings put secure ota_anon_hash <new value>

/e/OS is not fully degoogled, as DNS connectivity checks, hardware attestation provisioning, and eSIM activation all go through Google.

They are working on some of this, at least eSIM activation. Also do you have a source for DNS connectivity checks? AFAIK they have used their own for a while

It is often many weeks or months behind on security updates, especially in the WebView, which makes it easy to exploit.

This is a serious problem, however their update speed is comparable to a lot of default ROMs

It doesn’t support bootloader locking on many devices, and if you lock the bootloader on a phone that does support it, it could brick if /e/OS is on an older security patch than the stock ROM was

/e/os supports boot loader relocking on most official devices, however the community builds don’t support it. The bricking part has nothing to do with /e/os, it’s a hardware security feature of some devices. This would happen with any ROM including the official one

And finally, /e/OS’s text-to-speech sends what you say to OpenAI, despite local options being available.

I assume you mean speech-to-text? Anyway the feature is opt in and they have since updated it to include a prompt to inform you about what it will do. Their reasoning for a cloud option was that local options either are bad or have too high ressource usage (important as /e/os supports a lot of underpowered devices). Overall a stupid move, but they adjusted the feature to let users make an informed choice

If you can’t get a Pixel then iOS in lockdown mode is the next best option, however if you can’t replace your phone, LineageOS is much worse than Graphene although it is still much better than /e/.

Lineageos might have quicker updates, though it is even more connected to google, except for not including microg. However a lot of people will need google play services so they will have to install it anyway

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“The international order based on rights and rules … no longer exists in the way it once did,”

Because that’s what the international order was based on

LLMs definitely kills the trust in open source software, because now everything can be a vibe-coded mess and it’s sometimes hard to check.

A bit higher resolution:

I read that as ice as in ice cream. I thought it was somehow referencing the Nazis hiding in the Arctic

If you just look at the NATO treaty intervention by other nations isn’t necessary. Only when a nation is attacked by a non NATO nation

Wasn’t Frances problem with GrapheneOS specifically that law enforcement couldn’t hack it? I don’t think this applies to Peertube. Framasoft has a non profit status in France which Mastodon has a problem maintaning (that’s why they keep changing countries), which offers a significant financial benefit.

The problem is Xinput vs Direct input (D mode). Direct input allows low level access to the various buttons of a controller, it is mainly used by Sony. Xinput input is simplified, however it doesn’t allow the same low level access for configurable button. Xinput was developed by Microsoft and is the defacto standard, that’s why a lot of controllers only support it, the 8bitdo pro series is a rare exception.

TLDR its Microsoft’s fault

Is it a 8bitdo pro series or ultimate series? For pro series you have to set the slider on the back to D. For the ultimate series they can’t properly be utilized.

Edit: I was wrong, one ultimate series model supports them, the ultimate 2 without switch support. 8bitdo website

This you?

That is the main divergence between anarchists and communists. There is a good quote that captures the problem quite well (translated from German):

You say that the state is a tool that can be wrested from the capitalists, but if, just suppose, you want to be a small-time artist, what good does it do you to wrest the anvil from the blacksmith? You can’t juggle with anvils. The only thing you can do with an anvil is be a blacksmith. Remember: it’s not just the worker who sharpens the tool, the tool also sharpens the worker. The state may be a tool, but it’s not a Swiss Army knife, not a Leatherman, not a universal tool. And anyone who knows the stories—I deliberately use the plural here—will, given the problems of revolutionary states with the state, be unable to resist the suspicion that by attempting to take over power, one has already engaged so deeply with the logic of hierarchy that, if successful, one will almost inevitably imitate it rather than deconstruct it.

One idea of George Orwell about socialist revolutions he expressed when discussing animal farm:

I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job

As soon as the revolutionaries have gotten rid of the capitalists they are a obstacle in the way of control by the workers as they have their own ideas on shaping a socialist society that they will try to push on the people.

The idea is that the only reason why a state needs to exist is to enforce the classes, for example in feudalism the state is required to keep the nobility above the bourgeois. So if there are no separate classes a state won’t form as there is no reason too. Under communism no classes would form as the society is based on the principle “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, meaning no one can be above or below anyone else as long as the society stays true to this principle.

Their are however a lot communists, at least in the 19/20 century that believe communism to be the original form of society (See Friedrich Engels footnotes in the communist manifesto), which would mean states have already formed under communism in the past. This isn’t that discussed as most communists are mainly in a never ending discussion how to achieve communism the “right way”. The main argument to my knowledge is that the means of production created under capitalism makes a communist society rich enough that it prevents people abstaining from the above principle.

Well, “communist state” usually just means a state that claims to want to achieve communism. Engels and Lenin considered states like the USSR state capitalist (Source), referring to them as socialist/communist mainly comes from Stalin. Marxists like Lenin are of the opinion that after a communist revolution the means of production are to be given into the hands of the workers. As soon as this is complete, which in China/USSR never happened, the state stops existing as a state and starts dying as it has nothing to do anymore (see “The State and Revolution” by Lenin). Once the state has fully died of the society is communist and (by definition) hierarchy less

AFAIK it’s a desktop environment so using it via distrobox wouldn’t work, it has to be installed on a system level

Stremio Youtube

You can use pretty much anything you can with desktop Linux, however some apps may not work with a controller

Jellyfin is quite capable for music, however Navidrome has a much better client ecosystem. Personally I use the Finamp beta on mobile as it does everything I want and is quite stable, but if you want Android auto/apple carplay you will have to use a client that isn’t as reliable or proprietary (paid.