It’s not a rival. It is in a different sector. And it will rise or fall with the availability of software and support.

I’ll wait and see if they manage to get embedded system debugging to work properly. What I’ve seen in the past has been a pain in the you-know-what in that regard, showing clearly that their main focus was PCs.

Best justice money can buy. Almost as good as in the US.

At a few billions net worth, the law ceases to be a problem, obviously.

The award for “WTF Design” goes to…

So you get either a mediocre ARM or a mediocre RISC-V, plus an even worse RISC-V, plus an 8051 core.

I’ve seen a lot of crazy, stupid SOC designs in the last decades, but this is extraordinary.

And the board has USB2, 10/100 Ethernet, Wifi and/or(?) BT, and 512MB RAM. With no real support on the software side, and to small to run a modern Linux efficiently. If this board costs more than $10, it is doomed.

I’m not into JS stuff, but when I read that google is blocking ads, shit must be flowing in gargantuan amounts…

I never said anything about framebuffers. The 256x64 pixel display in 16 brightness levels probably has something comparable inside. I just tell it that i want to update a rectangle, and send it some data for that.

And I have never heard it called “backbuffer”, so we are even.

Yes. 2 kilobytes. Coincidentally, this is as big as the displays internal buffer, so I cannot even keep a shadow copy of it in my RAM for the GUI.

Luckily, no ;-)

No AVR, it’s a small LPC from NXP. Chosen for the price, of course, but I have to somehow squeeze the software in it. At this point, even 8k would make me happy…

Here, children learn first aid, too. But luckily we live in a civilized country, so they don’t need to learn about shotgun wounds.

I’d love to have 8GB of RAM. The SOC I’m working with has only 2K ;-)

Just that I don’t have anything worthwhile on my phone. All the important stuff is on PCs. All the stuff that is professional, that is covered by NDAs, all the banking. And just because Microsoft has ever been shitty and is now going extra-shitty, it is not a Windows PC.

Just wait until some Microsoft digital parrot AKA artificial “intelligence” spouts some companies internal data that it had gobbled up somewhere from the companies internal network…

F-ck those superflous buttons. I’ve got a mouse with an extra button on the left side. Otherwise, this is a good mouse, but someone had the stupid idea of putting this button where it can easily be activated with a brush of the thumb, and another had the equally stupid idea to make the default function the “back” in the browser.

Well, they took the risk to make big money.

Putting those LockBit people assigned - what has happened to those who caused the data breach? Microsofts buggy software, incompetent admins, stupid users, TLAs who store away known vulnerabilities instead of getting them fixed, etc.?

As long as one of them has a copy of that data, threats to publish them actually pose a threat.

Will they serve it though?

There is a thing called “international arrest warrant”. Of course they are rich enough to hide somewhere where the Swiss have no contract with, but I don’t think they would enjoy that…

Qaulity is better than … trying to post the whole article as a headline.