Didn't all of these problems come up with Google Glass over ten years ago? In fact the term "Google Glasshole" was coined for people using Google Glass to record people who didn't want to be recorded. While it is legal to film in public, they did not seem to understand why people did not like it. This user seems to fit that mold.

No but they were experimenting with germanium. My understanding is that researched stopped because while they could get better results with germanium, the problem was how to use it germanium practically as it is 1.6ppm in the Earth's crust while silicon is 282,000 ppm.

That's like the situation where one of my neighbor's dogs pooped on my lawn. Which neighbor was it? Was it the one that I see conscientiously pick up their dog's poop every time on their walks. Or the neighbor that lets their dog roam around the neighborhood with no leash? Your argument would be the conscientious one did it to frame the other neighbor. Because . . .sympathy and support? I do not believe Europe needs any more justification for sympathy and support for Ukraine.

Consider Russia indiscriminately attacks civilian targets, I would bet Russia hitting it by accident or on purpose. It is hard to know at this point.

No what that means is higher production costs do not necessarily map 1:1 to higher price in the end product in every instance. Sometimes the cost is eaten by the manufacturer in terms of profit. Sometimes the manufacturer can change the product to offset the increased cost. For example, cheaper materials, cheaper labor, etc. Now I am not saying they are good changes but that would be one way higher production cost is not passed onto the consumer directly in terms of price.

While the article focuses specifically on memory prices, the AI boom could also cause PC CPU and GPU prices to go up which affects everyone. Currently fabrication at TSMC and Samsung are limited with companies like NVidia and AMD booking orders years in advance. To chase profits, NVidia and AMD will shift more of their orders to AI chips if they haven't already done so. That means fewer consumer CPUs and GPUs and thus higher prices for consumers as there may be shortages.

I don't see how it would help the situation to buy cheaper phones. The issue is RAM prices are going up. That affects expensive flagship and cheap phones alike. In fact, you may not be able to buy a cheap phone as manufacturers are going to prioritize selling the flagship phones first as that gains them the most profit.

I don't know where you live but where I live we have these things called "hills" where a Kei car might struggle. Especially when I have these other things called "friends" in the car with me. Back in high school, I had a Toyota Corolla which is larger than Kei cars. The first time I was driving with friends up a moderate hill, they were surprised when I turned off the AC so I could get enough HP to maintain speed up the hill. Because suddenly slowing down in lanes with 18 wheelers and huge ass trucks is what some would call "dangerous."

That's not the main reason. Kei cars are meant for specific purposes and destinations. The trucks are meant to be light duty work trucks first and commuting second. The cars are meant for commuting in densely packed urban environments. In Japan and other countries, there are specific regulations for them. Since they were made for specific countries, this is why pass they don't pass safety requirements of US roads.

Conforming to existing safety regulations would be a challenge, and it would be require Congress to write new legislation written just for them. Personally, I would advocate Kei trucks being built as farms, large factories, warehouses, etc could use them, and many that have been imported for that purpose. For example, a Kei truck could easily haul a round bale of hay. If it gets stuck in the mud, just get a few people and lift it out. :P

That is a lie. The Mx series chips use both software AND hardware for emulation. Specifically Mx chips have memory assist circuitry that assist in translating x86 memory instructions. Rosetta 2 software is still needed to make it work but without the hardware, it would be slow and inefficient.

Your argument is that somehow Apple was one of the few to have "insanely fucking fast" software emulation for x86. Seriously? Of all the past open source and proprietary software attempts at x86 emulation, Apple just happens to build fast emulation on their first try. OR being vertically integrated, Apple incorporated some hardware assist at the chip level to help them as they design their own chips?

The topic is emulation. You: NO TRUE SCOTSMAN!!!

So you admit using fallacious arguments and then get angry when people point that out to you. Your argument is gaming companies should ignore devices that generate twice the revenue of PC games because you call anything not PC gaming, "niche".

Dell and HP disabled HEVC support on $1500 laptops like the Latitude 7350 and 600 Series G11. That is not the moral of the story.

By "minor", since the M1 was released, it routinely beats Intel machines even on x86 software. While the M series is handled by Rosetta, all M chips have some hardware translation. That is pretty much a fact you are unwilling to acknowledge.

Sure if your denialism wants to ignore that mobile gaming is twice as large as PC gaming in terms of revenue. In fact PC at 22% of the market would be considered "niche" compared to mobile and then consoles. Which processor does most mobile gaming support: ARM. How much of mobile gaming is x86: nearly 0%.

Only in your unwillingness to recognize a market worth $103B in 2025 compared to PC's $39.9B. But what are facts?

Only in your No True Scotsman arguments and denialism. ARM represents more than 55% of the gaming market. You however will never admit it.

There is a middle ground. Apple and Qualcomm have released ARM CPUs with some hardware x86 translation like the entire Mx line up and the new Snapdragon X series chips.

I wouldn't call ARM a niche platform considering many consumers probably own more than one ARM device and fewer of them own an X86 device these days. Gaming is one of the last strongholds of X86 only software but with efforts like this, that may change.

The Bobs: "I see you worked for Mark Zuckerberg at one point."
Me: "I wouldn't say I 'worked' for him, Bob"

If Zuckerberg rolled a truck full of money to my house to change jobs, I wouldn't say no. I would however take the attitude of Peter Gibbons from Office Space though: Cleaning fish at my desk, etc.

Citation needed. While I don't doubt Intel got rid of older workers, the main reason is that newer, younger workers are cheaper. The fact they were old white men is more an artifact of the system where Intel hired mostly white men to be engineers decades ago.