Since Comcast security will doubtlessly suck, this is a great way to find out whether anybody is home and when people are usually gone.

A RAM fab takes around 5 years to become operational, but only if ASML delivers the equipment in that time. Hence no RAM manufacturer is investing as the LLM hype will have died down by then. Either by crash and irrelevancy, or by much, much more efficient models. In both cases, the RAM market will be pretty much back to what it was before the hype.

The hardware-manufacturers are definitely waiting, especially as a new fab will take 5-10 years to become fully operational. But there is a good chance Nvidia will not survive the inevitable crash. Not much of value lost to the world if that happens.

I hope everybody is aware they are paying for the LLM hype this way.

Maybe. I guess we will find out. Anyways, any exposure for Linux is good in my book.

No argument from me about that.

They do not even need to. They have screwed up cryptographic architecture, design and implementation so many times now, whatever they do can be regarded as reliably insecure.

The reason I see why this is a stunt, is that this has no application scenario. The rhetoric about "boosting functionality" is total BS from somebody that either does not understand entanglement at all or is lying. The very nature of entanglement is that you cannot use it except in QCs (if they ever work), and there distance has to be as minimal as possible.

That is probably why so many people praise the LLM ability to summarize. To be fair, LLMs are somewhat competent at that.

At least 7 years. But they will do longer if they do not have to do major work on the build images to get there. And they will update Android major versions. My 5 year old Fairphone 4 has been on Android 15 for a while now. They try to keep all their phones on the same Android version, and the older ones benefit from that.

That is "official" carrier compatibility. In actual reality, most phones work with most carriers. The problem is software updates. But for a Fairphone these come from Fairphone anyways and not from the carriers. Some carriers will not list phones that do that because they cannot put their own branding on the software. My Fairphone 4 was never listed as compatible here (country in Europe), and never caused any problems at all. I did check online whether somebody else that had tried it with my carrier before, though.

Obviously, a carrier can intentionally refuse a specific phone in their network (probably illegal in the EU but also probably legal in the US), but "carrier compatibility" is a historic concept on the technology side, at least for phones that get software updates from the manufacturer.

You can get small USB-C to Analog headset converters for exactly this purpose. So unless you need to charge and use the headphone at the same time...

The CPU is one (small) aspect of what a phone is. And by far not the most important one.

That is a bit too simplistic to describe the situation. That generic "snapddragon 7" phone will not come with a battery you can swap in 30 seconds, have much worse hardware, will not get long-term updates, including Android major versions, etc.

Well, yes. But unlike some others you get those major version updates. My Fairphone 4 has been on Android 15 for a while now, via the regular updates. I do not see any issues with that.