TheGrandNagus @ TheGrandNagus @lemmy.world

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This source backs me up, not you.

Under the terms of the contract, the Chinese group has the possibility of converting its obligations within two years in order to become a minority shareholder in the French group - in the order of 5 to 7.5% of the capital, according to the documents obtained by Politico. But such a scenario, which would allow Huawei to influence Qwant’s strategy, can only be achieved if the Chinese group obtains prior among other conditions. According to Politico, this mechanism reassured the Deposit Fund. Qwant, on the other hand, assures that Huawei is not trying to get into its capital.

So, a 2021 source says Huawei, in accordance with agreements, could possibly take a 5 to 7.5% stake as long as they did it within two years. It then states that this isn't something Huawei actually intends to go ahead with.

It's been well over two years, Huawei indeed didn't take a stake in Qwant, and Qwant is still entirely French-German.

With that above information, you went online and lied, saying Huawei owns Qwant. They do not. You lied. And now you're doubling down on it.

Bit suspicious, by the way, that you're a new account with only 3 comments, all of which spreading misinformation.

It seems obvious that a 20mph limit will be more safe in most instances.

There's the issue with older cars having a gearing not really suited to staying at that speed (meaning revving higher and chucking out more pollution/being louder), but that's less of an issue with new cars.

There's also the issue of a car in 2nd gear at 20mph being ready to take off far more easily if you were to accidentally press the accelerator instead of the brake – something which often happens in traffic incidents. But again, the gearing of more recent cars is typically fine with sitting at 20mph in third gear. Car gearing seems to be designed with 20mph in mind now, as more places are enforcing it inside and outside of the UK.

And honestly, in most circumstances it won't make a serious difference to travel time going 20 or 30. Either way you're likely going to be stopping multiple times or stuck behind people.

Worth noting though, that the very people who collected this data say that the data can't really be used for direct comparison and that we need at least a couple more years to see what the effect of the change is.

Pretty much any car that comes with even a very basic cruise control will have a speed limiter option. My car is from 2010 and has it. I think my 2004 Mégane I had beforehand may have had it too, IIRC.

Although it's a bit more fiddly than what you describe in that you have to turn off cruise control mode, switch to speed limiter, set the speed, then activate.

But yes, it would be an interesting feature to have a "town mode" button that you could set to 20 or 30mph in the car settings. Much more streamlined than the above. I imagine you could do other things, too like trying to keep revs to a minimum to keep the car quiet, (if a hybrid) going EV-preferred or EV-only, etc.

Qwant is owned by Huawei.

No it isn't.

Why are you lying like this? What's the goal?

Qwant is based in Paris and its owners are:

• Jean-Manuel Rozan
• Éric Léandri
• Patrick Constant
• Caisse des dépôts et consignations (basically a public investment institution owned by the French government)
• Groupe Axel Springer (an online media company based in Germany)

So again: why did you lie? What's the goal here?

And then bastardised.

Chad UK/Irish Imperial pint: 568ml

Virgin US Customary Unit pint: 473ml

Annoyingly, the US has two different "cups"

US legal units puts it as 240ml

US Customary Units puts it at 236.59ml

Then there's Imperial cups, which is 284.13ml

Didn't the Apollo missions use metric, though?

It's not the softener itself. It's the softener plus a dozen other little luxuries that all add up.

The Fedora 42 Beta is looking very tempting right now...

I've pre-ordered the Core Time 2.

Pre-orders are something I never usually do, but given this is essentially just an improved version of an existing product, as opposed to a Kickstarter, I feel more confident. And I can cancel the preorder at any time (plus I'll see reviews of the cheaper model before the Core Time 2 ships).

The price made me wince, though. It's very expensive for the functionality. Technically cheaper than the original watches adjusted for inflation, but that ignores the current-day smartwatch market. Still, I loved the Pebble, so I think it's worth it.

I just pre-ordered one, but the price made me wince 😬

The anti-Ferrari

Where LOTR

I definitely think Apple is less susceptible to this, but people seem to forget that Apple literally has an ads business.

Look at the ads in Apple news and in a couple of other places. Apple isn't immune to injecting ads into the UX of their products.

Some countries actually hold them accountable and have reasonable privacy laws/laws about how you can use the user's data.

Running locally is the answer.

I think Bethesda didn't have a choice but to partner with someone, as they don't have the in-house experience with UE5.

I imagine part of why they're even doing this with an old (and internally well-understood) game is so that they can use it as a good starting point to learn UE.

I actually think this is why Sony keeps remastering The Last of Us anytime there's new hardware. It's not so much they feel the game needs it and it's the only way they can keep people playing the series, it's a way for their developers to properly test new hardware and software, using assets they broadly already understand and have on hand.

At least it's not Skyrim again, but god damn it, Morrowind is what we really need a remaster of.

I tried to play it recently and it's just one of those games that was great at the time but has aged extremely poorly. It's not even about the graphics, more how 'clunky' everything is.

UE5 is interesting. Obviously a big change with a lot of benefits, but modding will certainly be more difficult. Bethesda will actually have to put serious effort into this – pushing a game out and letting the community fix it only works if your game is extremely easy to modify.

I also feel somewhat bad for the people who've worked tirelessly on the Skyblivion project.

Certainly 3.

Lamarr!