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The Xorg foundation/whoever should have given Elon a C&D the instant he tried to name his hellsite X with also basically the exact same logo.

E: this article is deeply confusing and I should probably bill the owner for my time

There are digital isolator ICs, like ADUM3166 from Analog Devices, though like none of them are for USB 3.0+ Awful lot of isolation transformers in the IC diagram, so I'm sure that something like the transformers used for Ethernet could be reused to protect basically any USB ports from a USB killer attack, though they are awfully big for a smartphone

Only CXL has the potential to be outsourced to Thunderbolt, as it works off PCIe and system RAM does not. CXL (Compute eXpress Link) is a server grade technology that's really aimed at solving some problems within the high performance compute area, like cache coherency. If you don't get it, I don't either tbh.

It's really not weird. The more you charge for the base product and upgrades, serving the bare minimum becomes less acceptable. It also doesn't help that the 4GB base models from years past aged super quickly compared to it's higher end cousins.

Asking for a machine with "insane battery life, amazing performance, great screen and one of the lightest chassis" and oh, it must be completely silent is a loaded set of demands. Apple in the current market is essentially the only player that can actually make a laptop that can meet your demands, at least without doing a bunch of research into something that's equivalent and hoping the goal posts don't move again.

Why couldn't this be segmented into separate repositories or something? There's a wide gamut of completely different styles that would probably be better served by splitting them up

Wide product range. ARM and RISC-V all called GD32 with an extra letter for the exact line.

VisionFive 2 and Star64 launched earlier this year with the same SOC and there's at least 1 board with more horsepower already, so I wouldn't exactly call it "flagship" unless you somehow really needed something else with the CM4 form factor.

Feel like because both the VF2 and Star64 boards have been out already out for quite a while now, with probably some of their teething issues sorted out, this is pretty much an inexcusable product launch for Milk-V. Even more so since the VisionFive2 copied the RPi format almost exactly.

And yes, a lot of repositories for these boards are very fresh, forcing you to compile stuff and will break your board if you update. There's some stuff like device trees and patches being upstreamed, but there's also a whole bunch more that's not being upstreamed, like GPU drivers.

Nope. Qualcomm does have smartwatch RISC-V processors in the pipeline. It's not nothing?

Haven't tried the AOSP port for the LiCheePi 4a yet. Probably should give it a whirl just to see if things just work.

That's easier just to try downloading Minecraft through the Play Store than boot strapping the entire toolchain needed to get PolyMC working.