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by throw9393013 hours ago |
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upvoteby anax3211 hours ago|
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A ban on desktop PC components over a certain power threshold (300W) or PSUs would definitely affect local AI, and Europe is not a big enough market, nor has it's own internal supply chains to offer alternatives.

This has been done in the EU/UK in the past (hoovers/vacuum cleaners) so the mechanism exists.

I'm in the UK and support your direction.

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upvoteby dryarzeg4 hours ago|
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> would definitely affect local AI

And not only. Given your example with 300W, it will affect even things like (somewhat advanced) home servers, (mostly) personal self-hosting machines and even just gaming PCs. That would affect way too much, if I understood your thought correctly.

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upvoteby IanCal11 hours ago|
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Those people seem to have installed multiple outdoor units, there are limited numbers you are allowed to do without getting planning permission (two for detached housing, one for semi, nothing by default for flats) because these things have impacts on those nearby.

The telegraph is an awful rag, and should be read assuming the facts are probably true as written but interpreted in an incredibly biased way.

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upvoteby throw939309 hours ago|
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So you are only allowed to use goverment approved models for local LLM, of reasonable size (lets say 8GB vram). And gov can inspect your local data any time.

But that is not a ban on local LLMs!

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upvoteby IanCal7 hours ago|
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That’s wildly different, and if you want to invent things and then get mad at them you can, but the rules on ac are because the outside part has an impact on your neighbours.
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upvoteby 31707013 hours ago|
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The UK did not ban AC. Don't read the Telegraph, and if you do, don't trust it.

Source: I live there

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upvoteby FerretFred11 hours ago|
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Wasn't this a case of people fitting window-mounted units without realising they needed planning permission first? I'm also in the UK.
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upvoteby IanCal10 hours ago|
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I think so, or even more permanent ones. since it’s London I assume flats where you need permission for any number of outdoor units but it’s then one for semi detached and two for detached houses - one of the examples in the article is someone with three outdoor units afaict.
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upvoteby Den_VR12 hours ago|
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AC is not banned in Germany, but it is unGerman to have one.
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upvoteby dubbel11 hours ago|
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I feel like that changed in the last 2-4 years, coinciding with the advent of heatpumps in Germany.
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upvoteby Forgeties7911 hours ago|
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The UK is not part of the EU and no EU nation - nor the UK - has banned AC. You said EU nations have banned AC when none have, this statement is false.

8K tv’s are not banned. You can buy one right now in the EU. So this statement is also false.

The telegraph is a tabloid rag full of false claims dressed up in truth they’ve taken great lengths to keep slivers of so I can’t explicitly call them “liars.” But the truth is they are functionally lying, as evidenced by your insisting something is banned that isn’t.

Unless you can point to these bans this is false information.

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