“Aside from the obvious fact that Canada’s only physical border with the EU is the 1.2 kilometre one on Greenland’s tiny Hans Island in the Nares Strait, Canada maintains an open trade regime and could, from a technical standpoint, transition relatively smoothly into the EU’s tariff-free internal market.”

Technically, Greenland is actually not a full member of the EU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_and_the_European_Union

Blue machine by Helen Czerski.

I think this is the regulation: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1804/oj/eng

Yes if course, not required retroactively, but as you, I think some will simply update all their stations anyway, simply so their customers know they will always be able to pay with a credit card at their stations.

I believe EU regulations say that at least fast charging stations is required to have credit card payment option

I don’t quite follow your thought?

According to the page, this is the data that is stored on the chip:

=== CUT === In addition, this memory chip collects a limited set of information about the usage of the product, which might include the following: The date when the toner cartridge was first installed The date when the toner cartridge was last used The number of pages printed using the toner cartridge Page coverage Printing modes used Any printing errors that might have occurred The product model === CUT ===

I don’t like that they collect this info, but I don’t see any really scary information mentioned there?

Whether I trust HP that is all they store and recover is an entirely other matter ;)

As I wrote, they are going in the wrong direction 😕

Then i guess we agree, my comment was about ads, not all kinds of other stuff.

I rarely use the app store either, but it amazes me that Apple thinks that is just fine…

As I wrote in my other comment: I have seen ads in settings, they recently put an ad for their F1 movie in the wallet app and don’t get me started on the App store.

Depends on what you define as the OS. They put ads for their F1 movie in the Wallet app recently. I’ve seen ads for their services in the settings menu.

Apple has generally not had ads anywhere. However in recent years they are placing ads in more and more locations, making the user experience worse. Do you disagree with that statement?

Apple was the safe haven, but they too are going that route…

Well, that’s pretty stupid 🤦‍♂️ It’ll most certainly not save the German auto industry.

Index it all and train our AI on it.

As is mentioned in the article 😉 What is also mentioned is the fact that battery prices are going down. Soon it seems they’ll be down to $10/kWh!

Wouldn’t mind it if X got blocked in the EU.

The only interesting parts are the steer by wire and the 48v system.

😂😂😂