How many people are actually choosing Intel for AI chips over its competitors?

Compare that to Intel's continued lead in laptops and in mass-market desktops (e.g. the Dell and HP and Lenovo machines bought in bulk by businesses). Or for that matter, their Arc GPU business where the Battlemage cards are flying off the shelves last I heard.

I find building with LEGO to be a great way to avoid the temptation to doom-scroll on Twitter or watch endless YouTube videos or otherwise waste lots of time online.

Nothing I own requires any kind of server to actually function and the only things I own that even have a network connection are a low-end Android phone, a Windows PC and my router and FTTC modem.

I don't need fancy crap like an internet connected fridge or mattress or TV set (my TV is a 32" Samsung dumb TV that I only use for watching OTA TV)

I buy food at the airport and take it on the plane because even with airport prices its still much better than the buy-on-board cost.

If they want to create a free-as-in-freedom mobile phone OS of some sort that is actually useful, they will need hardware that the OS can run on (and hardware that you can actually connect to modern mobile networks and use to make calls, send messages, access the internet etc). What hardware are they trying to target?

Will this be like coreboot/libreboot/etc where it only works on old obsolete hardware that you can't easily just go and buy anymore or will it actually be usable on hardware I as a FOSS-loving geek can buy, stick my SIM card into and actually use as a phone on the 4G and 5G networks that operate here in Australia?

Parmesan doesn't deserve protection. Parmigiano-Reggiano and Grana Padano yes.

My 32" Samsung dumb TV (which I only use for watching over-the-air TV with all my other stuff done on my PC) still works just fine and I also have no plan to replace it anytime soon.

When rents are going up at a much higher rate than incomes, no amount of budgeting will help.

A good start would be to require that anyone who has access to submit to these package repositories must have proper 2fa enabled (TOTP, hardware tokens or something secure, not weak SMS 2fa or email 2fa). Implemented properly (with 2fa re-authentication being required every time you push to a repo) it would make credential or session cookie theft basically useless.

Requiring packages to be signed by the author might also help but that would be harder to implement and more difficult for the contributors to use.

One more reason for my next CPU to be AMD and not Intel.

Why has no-one made a computer (or if they have, why is it not more widely known or used) that works like, say, the Xbox One and Xbox Series where the CPU has a unique (and unreadable by any software) key burnt into it at manufacture time and any access to RAM is encrypted using that key and some hardware encryption.

Done right, it would be impossible for any attacks that rely on reading or writing the contents of RAM other than through the CPU memory controller (and the encryption hardware) to even work.

Maybe this exists but if it does exist outside of things like the Xbox, I can't find any real information about it.

If the only way to catch a particular bad guy is to weaken security for everyone (backdoors, hoarding exploits, deliberately weak encryption etc etc) then I say that bad guy should go uncaught.

And I would hold that position no matter who the bad guy might be.

I still buy DVDs for my collection (although not on eBay, I buy mine mostly from a big charity book sale that also sells DVDs and things)

Much cheaper to buy the entire series of Breaking Bad that way than to buy a new whole-series box set or watch it on streaming. Same with some other TV series I picked up. And all the James Bond films (although I still haven't found For Your Eyes Only locally)

I own a Samsung fridge but its a nice simple dumb fridge that does one thing and one thing only, keeping my stuff cold.

Both TCL and MG are PRC companies so yes I am talking about PRC.