You go to Alma Linux and download a generic iso and go to town? Or grab the latest Windows server iso from Microsoft and install it? To date all the ARM offerings I've seen differ in what boot devices they support, require kernel forks and proprietary blobs, and usually custom distro forks from the vendor. It's enough of a hassle that it's just not worth it to me to even consider an ARM server at this point, unless it was from Apple.

Well, we all have retroviral genes in our genomes; so in one way there certainly has been "mergings", at least at the genetic level. But the nature of the two organelles being referred to; mitochondria and chloroplasts, in indeed different. Mitochondria originated as free-living Alphaproteobacteria that could, apparently, produce ATP through oxidization. Chloroplasts are the descendants of cyanobacteria, who could produce ATP from photosynthesis.

Both mitochondria and chloroplasts weren't merely enveloped by more primitive eukaryotic cells, they're division and reproduction is timed to that of the host cell, so that when the host cell divides, so do to these organelles. Additionally, both mitochondria and chloroplasts have lost a lot of genes over the 1.5 to 2 billion years that they have been incorporated into eukaryotic cell lines. Another critical aspect of both these types of organelles is that their genomes are not merely honed down to what look like the essentials for producing energy, but that those genomes are very conserved even as compared to the host cells.

If this is the case, even it's early in the evolution of this endosymbiotic relationship, it is a significant discovery.

The question was "are they struggling to remain relevant," and the answer to that is a resounding no. Obviously future fortunes can change.

Sure. But in the markets ARM is playing, Intel has never played (whether they wanted to or not). Except for what Apple is doing, ARM has nothing to compete with Intel and AMD in the general-purpose computing market. Maybe this will change with Microsoft defining an ARM Windows platform. But up until now, ARM is too fragmented to be relevant in the traditional PC market. There's no such thing as a generic ARM PC that can run a generic, stock OS. I've never quite understood the love Linux enthusiasts have for ARM because Linux on ARM is, frankly, an awful experience outside of a very few, well-supported SoCs like the Raspberry Pi (which is hardly a PC competitor). RISC V coming on the scene is doing no better in that department.

Intel and AMD's hegemony remains pretty secure. The only ARM computers I would ever consider buying and running Linux on would be from Apple because they've defined a hardware standard in terms of boot environment, device tree, etc.

As for the breakdown of Intel's market, I think servers still make them a lot more money than you suggest. More money per chip than generic PC sales which have slumped for years. Even in PC sales, Intel still holds nearly 80%.

Even in the summary quote the author admits that Intel sold 80% of the server CPUs to AMD's 20%. It's not the 99% that they once had but it's still the vast majority of servers out there. Sure the trend is towards increased competition from AMD and even ARM. But Intel is still a profitable company that has the majority market share. Seems pretty relevant.

Stock prices are kind of silly. Oh no the price dropped 9%! The company is done! One wonders if the article writer has some stock he shorted and wants to push it down some more with some breathy copy.

Agreed. A free filing system is long overdue and tax prep companies have been making a killing that I don't mind taking away from them.

However to date, every attempt to reform the tax code (in any country) has made it more complex and way worse. I'm not sure anything productive can ever be done about it. My current policy is to vote against anyone that mentions tax reform, because it won't end well.

And they aren't actually criticizing one group of people either, rather they are criticizing the prime minister and government of one group of people. It really is interesting. Also both peoples involved in this conflict are Semitic if we use the literal definition of the term.

Others use this same tactic of conflating opposition to government or policy with hatred of a race. The CCP in China does this all the time. They've managed to convince a large majority of Chinese citizens that if anyone in the west opposes CCP policy, they really actually hate Chinese people. And they've even manage to convince many in the west of that same thing, leading to self-censoring. Putin does the same thing in Russia also. It's insidious and very effective.

If people want to get as much for the goods and services(work) that they provide, while paying as little as possible for the good and services they consume, why isn't it fair that businesses do the same?

Or even abuse it seems.

That's the exact opposite of how it actually works. Fertility rates tend to be highest among socioeconomically challenged groups, and lowest among high earning groups.

When no one is employed how do these companies expect anyone to afford their products and services?

On the other hand, hopefully this sort of technology will reduce the number of exploited people being forced to work in slavery conducting scams in call centers in India and other places. Won't reduce the scams of course. Take them to a whole new level.

I've never had a problem reading Chinese or Japanese books or watching movies. Yes, translation of idioms is always problematic, particularly from languages that are not related to our own, but a good translator can usually deal with that. For me, the problem with The Three Body Problem was the loopy plot, shallow characters and the author's abrupt genre jumping. I'm reasonably familiar with the Cultural Revolution and its profound effect on Chinese society, so ironically, reading the first chapter was the best part of the book. There was an interesting story there that wasn't a science fiction story.

I have no confidence in their estimate either. I think they are underestimating the cost. I'd be surprised if it doesn't end up double that.

While Grady is not a grid engineer, I am pretty sure he is not misinformed. Are you a power grid engineer? Do you work at a power station or large solar installation?

Well, Linux isn't Mac or Windows, and generally doesn't want to be. There are lots of very good desktops for Linux distributions and Fedora supports most of them which is a tremendously good thing. You don't need a spin of Fedora to get KDE or XFCE or Mate, but it's faster to set up one of these desktop environments with a Fedora spin.

Like I said, probably not for you, but for others these are good things to have. It's nothing at all like having different versions of Windows (Home, Pro, Enterprise), thankfully.

This was a KDE Wayland bug? I've never encountered in X11 with KDE 5.