Yeah, and Chernobyl had fallen to the Russians in 2022 itself, during the first week of the war. I've not read anything to indicate that Ukraine recovered it since. Look at any current war map of Ukraine, and they've still lost the entire Azov coastline

Chernobyl had actually fallen to the Russians in 2022, during the first days of the war. Did the Ukrainians take it back since?

Are we talking about HURD? Also, one of the reasons all those basic GNU tools are being re-written in Rust is so that they can re-license them under something other than GPL

I believe that the "you" here (in "you can just say no") is the company board. No board will vote to sneeze at all that cash coming in, especially in this economy. It's not just the Chairman or CEO of Micron who's making this call

Memory shortages are cyclical. I'll bet that after they've made enough money in selling to all those AI data centers, there will be a memory glut again. At which point, Micron would want to re-enter the consumer market These cycles have been going on forever, since the 90s, if not earlier

It should have stayed that way, and IPv6 should have been the minimum requirement to make DARPAnet/Internet available to the general population

True, but just like only a fraction of Westerners can afford iPhones, same is true about Indians, Chinese and others. India is still a bigger market for them than most Western countries

Most Indians use Androids from a variety of manufacturers, not just Samsung. So if Apple exists the Indian market, they'd hardly be noticed, except by Indian plutocrats That said, the Indian government has dropped that demand following protests

Intel could go into being a foundary only company, and make CPUs, GPUs and NPUs for everybody, be it Apple, Microsoft, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, AMD,.... There is now little value in the x86 IP, particularly when ARM has replaced it throughout Apple's lineup, a good bit of ChromeOS laptops and even Microsoft is making an effort there w/ their Surface books. If I were Intel, just dump all the x86 IP to AMD and NVIDIA (rake in as much cash that way) and focus just on the latest fabs. They were leaders at one time: time to get back to it by making everything for everyone

The only original shit they're doing is more AI. Which I personally don't care for. If my phone does what I need it to do - phone calls, video calls, scanning QR codes and accessing websites,... that's good enough for me. Unlike most millennials and zoomers, I don't stay stuck on my phone whenever I'm alone

I'm not an AI hater per se, but I generally avoid enabling AI, or buying toys whose only selling point is AI. With that in mind, I avoided higher end Google Pixels or ARM based Windows PCs (which aren't compatible w/ legacy software or devices that can only connect to Wintel boxes) or anything that only screams AI and nothing else. AI has its limitations, as one can see if one probes much into querying it on questions, and people who use it to substitute their own thinking are asking to be badly disappointed As for the shortages, that's a cyclical thing. Memory becomes expensive, then manufacturers make more of it to rake in the numbers, which creates a glut in the market, that causes memory prices to fall, which causes manufacturers to cut down production, which in turn increases prices, lather, rinse, repeat. Same goes for SSDs, GPUs, NPUs.... Don't read too much into the current shortages: memory will become cheap again

Except that he's not at all religious. Many Hindus who follow his policies closely will tell you that his policies have been a betrayal of Hindus

True. Even if India banned Apple, that wouldn't have a big effect on their phone usage. Mac usage is even less

Actually, no. Since 2021, the Indian government has been very week and bends very easily w/ not just public protests, but also foreign influences. Whether it was redacting their farm bill after protests from just one state (Punjab) to ending their attacks on Pakistan this year when Trump threatened tariffs (which are still on, so India had no good reason to stop its bombing) to pulling an order in Delhi that cars older than 10 years had to b put off the roads, regardless of their working conditions or emissions status Modi barely won an election last year, and is actually in a coalition government. If his relations w/ his coalition partners sours, that could be the end of his government

No, that's how the RIRs are usually named: APNIC - Asia-Pacific NIC AfriNIC - Africa NIC LATNIC - LATin America NIC ARIN and RIPE NCC are the exceptions. ARIN is American Registry of Internet Numbers, but "America" here covers the US, Canada, and all of the Caribbean (including Latin American island countries like Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti,...) RIPE NCC stands for Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre and covers Europe, West Asia and Central Asia I would have split it differently. Put Russia and Central Asian countries as well as Armenia in APNIC, every country from Pakistan and West to AfriNIC (except Israel, put them in APNIC) and all of Europe from Ukraine/Belarus/Georgia to RIPE NCC. Similarly, in the Americas, put Cuba and other Spanish/French speaking islands in LATNIC, while countries like Guyana, Belize, Suriname,... would have fallen under ARIN