There is different people in different countries. No question about that. And free information channels are definitely very important. My argument is that in the case of russia, this factors don't really come into play in a meaningful way.

Information channels even after the full scale invasion are available and easy to access, it was less restrictive before Feb 24 2022, but the difference is somewhat marginal. Access to information isn't going to magically change the imperialist, supremacist mindset of the overwhelming majority of russians.

It's not an access to information problem, it's a social and cultural problem. I've lived there for 10 years (in addition to living a decade in north america and many years in asia), the imperialist/genocidal mindset has survived 3 regimes (Tsarism, USSR, authoritarian capitalism) with very different technological currents and economic structure profiles. It's not going away just like that.

Full disclosure: I am Ukrainian, but I would argue you can come to the same conclusions by taking a critical look at their history, current attitudes (even among the "liberal" opposition) and broad worldview.

Just wanted to share my thoughts. Re-reading my posts, I think I come off a bit more pushy than I wanted to.

The vast majority of russians support imperialism and a majority hold genocidal views (they would never openly agree to this, but on an outcome basis they do support eradication of Ukrainian culture and not only).

Even to this day, every russian with a smartphone has access to uncensored youtube available within 10 secs on their phone.

Not saying what apple did was right, just pointing out the "lack of factual information" narrative is largely incorrect. It's more a lack of respect for the rights others, nihilism and overwhelming supremacism; no VPN or technology is going to solve this.

I personally would rather pay less for one without an LCD, but I could see how it could be useful if you want to build a flashy looking LCD (think RGB) or if you have a high level design concept.

It would be a good day, but for high capacities, it will take some time (at least at the DIY price level).

Penalties seem pretty mild, especially for the CEO and CFO. For some reason I suspect their $1 M and $250 K penalties aren't all that material relative to the amounts they made via Silvergate.

The stuff about tech companies going carbon neutral or whatever was such bullshit. It was clear this was mostly PR and if there was a need to massively increase carbon emissions (as happened with current "AI" trends), they wouldn't think twice.

I highly doubt this will be true by 2027, perhaps sometime in the next 10-15 years...

The Texas judge is an almost like a satire of justice.

You would think that whole judicial district would be shut due to corruption by this point.

This is definitely an enterprise only feature and it will never be available to consumers.

I am not even sure if it would make financial sense to include it (as opposed to just spending the cost of CXL support integration on more VRAM).

It does seem like very cool tech though.

It really is too bad that this never became more mainstream as a sort of a "super high end SSD" option.

To my understanding a lot of it was intel being greedy (unreasonable product segmentation for a novel tech) and challenges with their JV with Micron.

I am also worried about access to high-bitrate movie/show content.

Streaming services have very well encoded videos, but it's easy to tell the difference between a BD video and streaming video.

I still have a few boxset CD-based games. Still have a working laptop from 2014 with a DVD-drive, so I can technically access these discs.