@alphaomegavan@Pirat_Nation This will be a recurring pattern: heavier devices, less battery capacity. I wonder how this will affect IP water resistant ratings.
As an EU citizen, not once in recent years have I wanted to replace a battery in my devices - but I do get that there are many people that have.
Nintendo has announced updated versions of several Switch products for Europe to meet new EU rules requiring user-replaceable batteries.
> Nintendo Switch 2 (Autumn 2026): Battery changes from 5,220mAh to 5,172mAh; console will be about 10g heavier.
>Joy-Con 2 (Winter 2026): Same battery capacity, but each controller will be about 2g heavier.
>Switch 2 Pro Controller (Winter 2026): Battery changes from 1,070mAh to 897mAh; controller will be around 7g lighter.
>Updated versions of the original Joy-Con, Nintendo 64, and GameCube controllers are also coming with user-replaceable batteries.
Gisteren was ik weer op pad om boze buitjes te bekijken. De buit bestaat uit 3 supercells waarvan 2 exemplaren mooi gestructureerd waren. Vandaag staat de volgende ''convectieve setup '' op de kaarten. Eens zien wat vandaag gaat brengen dus!
🚫 Siri AI en 2026… sauf pour l’Europe.
Pendant que le reste du monde profitera du nouveau Siri, les utilisateurs européens devront attendre.
Si vous voulez faire entendre votre voix, signez la pétition sur https://t.co/UNqxmyzMes
📣 Partagez-la autour de vous.
Plus nous serons nombreux, plus il sera difficile d’ignorer les utilisateurs européens !
#SiriAI #AppleIntelligence @ferrantelorenzo
Liftoff of Starship V3, from the dunes right outside the pad.
This is the most insane shockwave action I have ever seen on video. Absolutely mad.
📽️ Me for @WeAreSpaceScout
Der zweite rote FSD-Fleck auf der Europakarte ist Litauen.
Welches EU-Land wird das nächste sein, das entscheidet, weniger Unfälle und Verkehrstote in Kauf zu nehmen?
This is one of the most important studies in sleep science.
Van Dongen et al. ran the experiment that changed how we understand chronic sleep restriction. They had subjects sleep 4h, 6h, or 8h nightly for 14 days, testing cognitive performance every 2 hours.
The 6h group’s reaction time deficits by day 14 matched subjects who had been awake for 24 hours straight. The 4h group? They performed like someone awake 48 hours.
But here’s what makes this study terrifying.
The Stanford Sleepiness Scale ratings in Panel B plateau after day 3-4. Subjects stopped feeling more tired even as their cognitive performance continued deteriorating through day 14. Your subjective experience of fatigue is a lagging indicator that eventually just… stops updating.
This explains why chronic undersleeping feels sustainable. You’ve adapted to feeling tired. Your prefrontal cortex hasn’t adapted to being impaired.
The PVT (Psychomotor Vigilance Task) in Panel A measures lapses in attention. These are the moments where you’re staring at a screen and your brain simply checks out for 500ms. Every additional day of 6h sleep adds more lapses. The curve never flattens.
Panel C and D show working memory and processing speed. Same pattern: continuous degradation with no subjective awareness.
The practical implications:
If you’re sleeping 6h and think you’re functioning fine, you’ve lost the internal calibration to know you’re not. The subjects in this study would have told you they felt “okay” while performing like they’d pulled an all-nighter.
For anyone doing cognitively demanding work, this means you cannot trust how you feel. You need to track objective markers: error rates, decision latency, problem-solving throughput.
Sleep need is biological, not negotiable. Most adults require 7-9 hours, and the research shows no population-level adaptation to chronic restriction. “I only need 6 hours” is almost always “I’ve forgotten what baseline cognition feels like.“
- 4.500 Euro für einen Führerschein
- 3 x so teuer wie im europäischen Ausland
- Verkehrsminister kündigt günstigeren Führerschein an
- Buchungen in den Fahrschulen brechen um 70% ein
- Junge Menschen warten auf den günstigeren Führerschein
- Branchenverband rechnet mit Pleitewelle bei Fahrschulen
10,4 Milliarden Euro.
So viel hat die GEZ im Jahr 2025 von uns Beitragszahlern in Deutschland eingesammelt & ausgegeben
Zum Vergleich: $NFLX gab in 2025 rund $18 Milliarden (umgerechnet ca. 15,4 Mrd. €) für Inhalte aus. Und zwar weltweit!
Das steht in keinem Verhältnis mehr.
It's been 5 years my chooms 🥺
5 years of grit, humility, and gratitude. Feel nothing but deep appreciation for each one of you. Never Fade Away my gonks, much love ❤️
✨📶 L'Apple Watch va perdre la synchronisation Wi-Fi avec l'iPhone en Europe
Apple va désactiver la synchronisation automatique des réseaux Wi-Fi entre l'iPhone et l'Apple Watch en Europe, à partir de la mise à jour iOS 26.2 (décembre).
La raison : la Commission européenne exigeait qu'Apple ouvre ce lien de synchronisation aux accessoires tiers. Apple a refusé par souci de sécurité et de protection de la vie privée
Donc, pour se conformer au DMA, Apple va désactiver la fonction pour tous en Europe.
Source : @Numerama https://t.co/rs2H8Ir7YX
Most of Europe has regulated away the ability to be successful.
The taxes are so high and regulation so suffocating, there is no incentive to strive to become successful.