I remember it well enough.
Read under "its expenses". All this is extremely costly and needs skills I started to enumerate. It is also cheap today, but it will not remain so.
If not for the Chinese factor, prices would have skyrocketed already. Real competition there is what keeps prices in check. And this, while being good for us, is not so good for (esp. US) AI industry. No real perspective on ROI, and we have yet to see what happens when the bubble bursts.
Just the other day, I compared AI agent use to the Icarus flight.

since AI agents became usable and started to bring results.
Of course, you must have skills usually not associated with the manager caste - ask precise questions, be realistic in expectations, and be ready to jump in and fix in ten minutes instead of spending time on 5 prompts. Among others.
So it is not a question about AI being usable or not; it is a question about it being useful enough to cover its expenses and ensure ROI.
An improbable thing to happen.

I have Macs, a Windows laptop, and several Linux laptops and workstations.

I think I remember a few crashes per year in the last 16 years I have been using Macs. Caveat - I reboot them when I see signs.

Linux boxes are more stable than Macs. I do not have to reboot at least once every two months because it's starting to slow down.

Windows has problems every single week.

Espressif ESP32, definitely, and Heltec if you want LoRaWAN.

ESP32-C6 is great for low-power uses, while the ESP32-C3-based Heltec CT62 module is an all-in-one including LoRaWAN and everything ESP32-C6 offers except for ultra-low-power cores.

ESP-IDF for development, with Eclipse based IDE by Espressif or CLion. One can also use Arduino IDE for it.

But they only have superior marketing at the moment.

Has everybody forgotten the worth of Anthropic CEO announcements? Six months, 6-12 months, soon but not this year, etc., etc.

Google is the only one with long term strategy, IMO. LLMs are much more of a better search tools than a coder of any seniority. They are also very good at translation. The ability of LLM to generate fake content is also an important "skill". A place in Google for all of that.

...so all guns are out and blazing. Propaganda is more aggressive with every passing moment.

Because so many bosses will have to answer very hard questions about vast quantities of money once it bursts.

It can and will be worse.

I think they are not targeting receivers with "noise", but satellites. Reports say packet losses skyrocketed to 90% (80% in some earlier reports), thus making service unstable.
As for receivers, they are geolocating them one by one, and the police collect them. In Ukraine, they target them with drones and artillery.

The Chinese have a lot of very cheap solar power in desert areas and hydroelectric power in the Southwest. I don't think they think much about power.

Does it also take our code for training?

Just like the Chinese have been doing for ages now. I think users will cope and gradually move to other services. Some will use proxies just like the Chinese do, but in the long term - local services will prevail.

It is a good thing Russia cannot send SWAT teams to enforce their laws like some other country did to the MEGA upload guy and his New Zealand company.

And now this. I feel so sorry for Red Hat, and also for Cygnus and other teams they swallowed.

R.I.P.

Especially because I would have no guarantee at all it is what I will really get.

There is a lot of drama in the world currently, but interest groups like Nvidia have their agendas. Paint a dramatic picture and money will pour in. As many people equate efficiency/shorter waiting times with quantity of money, it is what will be pushed for. And probably achieved.
Chip independence may be critical or not, it may take 20 years or 2, but that is not an issue. How much money will flow because of all of it is the issue here.
I know it sounds cynical but it is exactly what at least most of it is about. If not all.

It looks like a duopoly is in control of a very important industry.

He might have not replaced any of those with $100bn but he would definitely get in the game and start getting traction.

Like the Chinese with their rumored chips are doing.

I got an email asking me how much I would like to pay for ..... They collect offers, and take and charge one offering most :).