Apple stuff are mostly Veblen goods, whose demand increases with price. That’s why this is interesting.

I’ve heard Google use Debian as gLinux and I feel many other giants also use it and sponsor it and I’m not comfortable choosing it as my distro.

They use Debian for the same reason all heavy industry is built using steel and not whatever flashy new composite is in the news today. It works. Debian is slightly harder than Ubuntu / Mint to install and set-up, but probably the easiest to maintain since it is extremely stable and forgiving. It will also work on just about any hardware.

And don’t worry about the sponsorships. Debian is run by the community; the sponsers don’t get to decide anything.

My understanding is that Chinese companies have been able to replicate EUV lithography by either using particle accelerators or layering DUV. But the former requires a lot of electricity, and the latter has poor quality and reliability. But with falling electricity prices and fusion reactors around the corner, who knows?

why would a country announce such a thing?

If you don’t want all-out war, it’s a good idea to announce your attacks so the other side (1) doesn’t over-react, and (2) pays attention the next time you make a threat. Usually the downside is that the other side might use this information to try to stop you. But at this point Iran has pretty much total control of the Persian Gulf, so that’s not a huge risk.

Sorry, my bad. So these people are software funding agencies?

While this is great, aren’t wealth funds required to get a return on investment? How does that work here?

It looks like they are pushing back. But when you have neither nukes nor a drone fleet, there are limits to what you can say to a US company.

Firefox -> Reading mode gets past the paywall.

If you’re on Firefox, just enable reading mode.

The publication date would be decided by Wiley.

As non_burglar said, RISC-V is so far mostly used for small chips for embedded systems. This could change in the future, of course, but you might not have a good RISC-V laptop by 2027-28. There is also a concern that the chips themselves need not be open-source, but there have been open-source designs such as XiangShan, which is comparable to A76.

Currently, your options are DeepComputing’s DC-ROMA, which uses a SpacemiT SoC K1, and Framework’s Laptop 13, which has a StarFive JH7110. Neither CPU is fully open.

On the software side, there is better news. Debian has accepted RISC-V as one of its main architectures.

This assumes really good internet infrastructure and still requires some sort of terminal at the user end. Of course, Bezos is a billionaire and so might be dumb enough to believe it himself.

yet

Hey, that’s not arcane knowledge.

Arcane knowledge is memorising the server’s IP address.

What exactly is the point of rolling release?

Newer features. At the cost of a higher risk of stuff breaking.

Or is it for security?

No, point release OSs do have security updates. It’s feature updates that they avoid.

If you lose enough money, you trigger an integer overflow and end up with a profit!

The Radxa Rock 5 series use RK3588s and have USB, ethernet and 4-32 GB RAM.

Didn’t they get a lot of computer hardware from Russia recently?

The article says he worked from China, for US and European companies. Which explains both the pay difference and the concern about the sanctions.

1. There’s an uptick in ‘Unknown’ (currently at 26%).

2. Linux adoption might have slowed down because India - US relations have improved since then, because Trump can be distracted by promising him trade deals. Of course the deal he wants (giving US agri companies access to the Indian market) will face opposition from farmers’ unions, so I’m not sure what the govt’s long-term plan is.

One good thing is that when a govt dept switches to Linux, it sort of sticks. And govt contracts are very profitable, so we’ll likely see greater interest from both hardware and software companies.