Oh no, that argument about current capabilities ruins my whole schtick, let me pick up a PS so I can counter argue a red herring...
You must be from the US
edit: more than half of the people in the world live in Africa/Asia, I don't see those regions being particularly affected by rare earth metal restrictions. Microsoft, OpenAI and Apple et al might be fucked though, and that means that scenario would be a good thing.
TIL a steady transfer of rare earth metals from China is necessary for all of the computers of today to continue working. Is it like a subscription. Rare earth pass, subscribe now.
Richard Wolf had a very good take on all of these Silicon Valley "disruptors". It's basically been the neoliberal US american MO for the past quarter century:
Step 1: get a bunch VC money by promising the moon
Step 2: "disrupt" by undercutting the established moon due to lack of regulation. Even though it's an inferior product, it's VC subsidised, so it's cheaper than the established businesses.
Step 3: due to lack of regulation, your business drives established operators to bankruptcy. This is basically dumping but the regulation hasn't caught up.
Step 4: become the monopoly and suck as much money as possible from your customers to generate "shareholder value"
I couldn't read past the bio, gave me Linkedin PTSD and my confidence levels cratered. That's the IT equivalent of fake quotes with abstract art backgrounds on facebook, it immediately disqualifies the author.
This is hyperloop levels of stupid about something that, when looking exclusively at the general public, has the same amount of uses as hyperloop did...
150€ will net you a stay in most countries in the EU except scandinavia and too big cities.
For 150€ a day, Budapest, Warsaw, Split, Prague, Vilnius, Salamanca, etc.
Be mindful of where you rent, make sure to have travellers insurance, don't get scammed for BS reasons (like peeps trying to make you believe you need to pay high money to use the autobahn in Czechia). Be mindful of pickpockets anywhere southwest of Paris and enjoy the food and locals.
This is a pretty good take on all of this. MS, Sony and Nintendo have done nothing but enshitify their platforms in the past few years and yet, they increase the cost of admission at every enshitification step.
Ye, that shit is everywhere, also gaming indian sites that recycle and produce AI slop are popping everywhere like mushrooms. Perhaps the dead internet theory is closer than expected.
I find it even more hilarious that there's this inflated panic about China now, while we spent the last 30y ignoring how the US SV venture capital funded monoliths murdered the european tech sector by just buying it our spending it out of the market under the quiet leadership of several stock owners of these merican companies. Perhaps worry about the fact ARM is owned by Softbank while we're at it.
So, it does look like the CEO of Proton was on to something.