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From the repo readme[1], "GeForce and Workstation support is still considered alpha-quality."
There are also terminals accessible from the front to power the electronic hood latch from an external 12V source to access the battery.
i.e. the GD32V microcontrollers implement RV32IMAC, Allwinner D1 which is a "full-blown" CPU meant to run Linux implements RV64IMAFDCVU.
RV32I/RV64I are the base 32/64 bit integer instruction sets and every letter after that is a different extension. Most of the extensions are relatively small and simple, but the C (compressed instructions) extension introduces some decoder complexity and the V (vector) extension adds several hundred instructions.
Though even with all the extensions it is still a very small/simple ISA by modern standards.
Gentoo is probably the easiest mainstream distro to get running just because you can fiddle with all the compiler flags and kernel options. A few people have also put together small custom images with modern kernels for this class of hardware.
The Honeycomb LX2 is probably the closest thing to that currently, but it launched for $750 and has since gone up to around $920. Performance is not remotely competitive with x86 systems at that price point.
There are some systems based on the Ampere Altra chips, but nobody sells the motherboards/CPUs on their own and a full system will run you at least ~$6000.
As a note, you said it requires a dedicated graphics card but it does seem to work fine on my laptop's integrated graphics (AMD 4500U) and performance was good with at least the default map size.
All of the ISA specifications are freely available[1] and you can buy a license to manufacture SPARC hardware for $99.
Not quite a fully assembled solution but all you have to do is screw the two boards together with a few standoffs.
So in that direct mapped example blocks 0, 64, and 256 are all mapped to cache line 0, and you can only have one of them in cache at any given moment. If block 0 is in cache and block 256 gets accessed, block 0 will be evicted from cache because block 256 will replace it in cache line 0.
Zswap is somewhat similar and might also work well for you, it uses disk swap but with a compressed cache in RAM.
Of course your SSD might have some other firmware bug that would eat your data, all you can do is search for the model number and see if the manufacturer has issued any notices/firmware updates.
But the hardware is very slow compared to pretty much any other modern phone, you will struggle to get decent performance from web technology.
Interestingly when they doubled the character limit they also started double counting CJK characters so the limit is still effectively 140 for those languages.
I use the open source Gadgetbridge app instead and it works well: https://gadgetbridge.org/
This article from when it was discontinued says the entire production run was 7400 units.
https://www.thedrive.com/article/7269/chevrolet-ends-spark-e...
From this paper[1], "An increase in blood lead from 10 to 20 micrograms/dl was associated with a decrease of 2.6 IQ points". So while there is an impact on lead levels, it is not nearly large enough to lead to the loss of 1-2 IQ points.
I'm not saying we shouldn't get rid of leaded avgas, but it accounts for about 0.1% of gasoline used in the US so the impact will be much smaller than banning leaded fuel for cars was.