it’s a Chinese convert operations device packaged and disguised as a “Labubu”

I agree, but the instruction set (what you called a chip architecture, which isn’t wrong at all but potentially confusable with microarchitecture which is how you implement the instruction set architecture) has nothing to do with this. Though Apple does have the ability to make their own instruction set if they want, they and (mainstream) Android currently use ARM, which is also an open standard.

Now you’ve got me thinking whether Atlantic counts as MSM. I’m guessing they’re kinda like The Intercept (?) but also very popular and the newspaper that commissioned and rejected Mearsheimer and Walt’s paper, prompting them to make it a book (the one mentioned in the sidebar) instead.

Are you sure the SN is only on a piece of paper?

https://service.anker.com/article-description?ref=Home_Page&urlName=Locating-Serial-Numbers-on-Anker-Products says it’s etched.

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As part of her spending review today, Rachel Reeves announced that every child in a Universal Credit household will now be eligible for state-sponsored lunches.

Currently, Universal Credit households must earn under £7,400 per year to qualify.

The majority of the proceeds better go to the original author of the chapter

it’s unrelated burmese script

the character represented by chr(sum(range(ord(min(str(not())))))) is way cooler

it will matter when it’s gone…

yes

(it’s polarizing and a bit different for different people who want different things. i’m on the “it’s abysmal” side)

We’re comparing “similar” alternatives to 2024 ABC News here, no?

yeah I think you’ve got to have a beat for that joke to land

Fireborn later endorsed the BT Speak PDA which runs a custom open source OS with the Linux kernel

oh god is taiwan learning to gacha?

… the political prowess of gacha remains to be seen

thank you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#100%_human_simple_summaries?

looks like grape juice (grape juice™ is not grapejuice juice®)

No, it’s like banning e.g. Quicken from an accounting competition. Or banning calculators from the AMC. Allowing AI would make the contest meaningless.

I tried MacPorts once and felt Homebrew was less confusing