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Lithium prices are down 80% since 2022 and new mining investments for it have dried up.

EVs are absolutely “advanced manufacturing” though. You don’t just stand up a battery plant in a country, let alone an automotive manufacturing industry when said country doesn’t even make cars today. You could obviously do it, but the costs are outrageous.

Until someone can do it cheaper and then they take over. This has already happened many, many times as chinese quality increased and wages and thus prices increased.

It’s just capitalism doing capitalism things. The cheapest labor generates the greatest profits. It started with trinkets and now it’s much more advanced manufacturing. We’ve already seen other countries with cheaper labor step in for various manufacturing.

The only reason why we don’t manufacture in rich companies is because the investment for automation and labor for maintenance is more expensive than continuing production in poorer countries. Exceptions are abound for things that aren’t financially viable to import from other areas.

We’ll run out of resources and/or destroy the environment long before the world gets western QOL across the board though.

She’s a journalist and her photos are already out there.

All she’s doing is driving follower inflation with her op-ed posted on business insider. Seems like a perfect choice given those circumstances.

What companies have you worked for that provide linux laptops and linux desktops to common users? Not developers, not as servers.

I’ve worked in multiple industries. Macs are not rare, but they aren’t prevalent. Windows still has ultramajority market share.

On the server side, tons of things run linux. Maybe if you work for a tech company or are on a development team you use linux day to day, but this is generally a small subset of people at a company. This is not a forum for “developers” but for everybody. Someone in HR, Finance, Sales, R&D, etc is not going to be familiar with linux at work typically.

I don’t doubt that there are companies out there that have linux workstations for normal users, I just doubt it’s more than 2% of the workforce in the western world. It’s probably way less than that.

It also happens from image preview caches created by explorer. I see this get hung up for some time with SMB shares and the like that have images.

Something is still interacting with the photos on your device, and although it may be mundane… do you really know every single service and process running on your device, all the time? Could we ever know? Just takes one dependency for one thing you installed to be bogus… it could even be from a rootkit installed in bios that installs whatever software on bootup so even if you wipe your system it’s there, ever monitoring, ever feeding your data away.

There’s just no user friendly tooling on windows that’s built-in which would ever pick this stuff up. AV doesn’t know what is desired or undesired behavior when it comes to stuff like this either. Sure, it won’t send up stuff protected by UAC from a non-admin request… but thumb drives, CF cards, SD cards etc all have no restrictions.

I have power toys… well on my windows dual boot anyway. Do normal users? Probably not.

I’ve used unlocker tools in the past as well, but this is not something provided in the OS and as such not something a typical user is even aware of, let alone has available.

You’ve never, ever plugged in a thumbdrive and then used the “safely remove hardware” tray to try and eject… only to receive an error that says “unable to remove, in use” or similar?

I guess i’ve never seen it happen when I was using a thumb drive to image a machine well over a decade ago.

There are a few people on the internet who seem to have reported this though:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/12t8pwo/i_cant_eject_any_storage_even_if_nothing_obvious/

https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/pnbfcf/this_device_is_currently_in_use_when_trying_to/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4212072/cant-eject-external-hard-drive

https://www.reddit.com/r/LenovoLegion/comments/uv5uag/cant_safely_eject_usb_drives_on_legion_716achg6/

There are thousands of results of this. I have encountered this dozens of times personally across dozens of different systems.

How do you know that the latest version of a piece of software that auto updated on your computer doesn’t have anything snooping on your hard drive and uploading whatever it wants somewhere?

Think about it. How would you know? Let’s assume it’s not using a bug, exploit or vulnerability.

Windows hasn’t been my main os for a while but I’m fairly certain you can mount/unmount drives without rebooting.

I work in IT for a living. Sometimes something keeps your drive locked. Windows does not confess. I wasn’t talking about linux user experience because most people don’t use linux like we do.

Imagine if you were a malicious actor and you wanted a copy of all photos someone plugged into a computer that were not things like browser cache, just good honest to god OC.

All you have to do is listen on drive letters D, E, F, G and when one is plugged in with a DCIM directory… silently upload the data contents to a server over the internet when a drive is detected with that subdirectory.

Have you ever wondered why you couldn’t eject a drive without rebooting? It’s not like it’s going to tell you what process is keeping it locked… Encryption wouldn’t even matter, because you’re gonna need to decrypt/unlock it to access it, and windows doesn’t care what service or application is trying to access it, it is glad to allow any kind of file action without even admin rights.

Anywho, actor has your photo, AI trivially builds facial recognition models, pulls in timestamps, geolocation metadata, camera metadata… and now those photos you never intended to upload anywhere are in a database of PII that will be shared to god-knows-who.

Cool. Pop_OS is working quite well over here.

It’s never been a better time to convert to Linux. The best part is that if one distro turns to shit you can just move over to another.

Sure, but trying and failing is the only way we’ve ever accomplished anything.

With the rate of CVEs scored at 9+ that come across all the stuff I manage at work I would not agree.

It would be foolish to simply stop patching this giant pile of obsolete insecure dependencies they are calling windows.

The fact that in lieu of paying them they simply want you to log in with an account they control should speak volumes to the privacy implications.

What purpose do electric door locks serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?

An oligarch’s fancy?

I’m sure in product meetings it’s been brought up that it’s a dumb thing and they could save money and make the cars safer by not having them, then the oligarch speaks up.

TorGuard is a vpn provider but instead you have that onion network. Why?