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Grew up with an Amiga 500. Studied CS (Compilers and OSs). Did IoT and sensor networks for my PhD. Stayed at the university to now do data science and AI stuff lik everyone else.
The state for me personally is that my joint bank account with my wife uses a play integrity protected banking app (changing your own a accounts to a better bank is one thing). Also beyond banks things now require proprietary 'secure' TAN apps like my insurance broker. The issue is that for me every a new problem like this popped up and to find solutions take time over and over. Even thing that work now may stop working the next minute because there is no real effort of fintech and its management to keep compatible with niche devices. It is mostly either coincidence or the effort of tech savvy individuals at those companies.
We only can hope that a large group of people including regulators get sanctioned or mandated not to use any US tech even privately so they see little offer is left even inside Europe that is truly sovereign. I gave up for now (after about 10 years exclusive on LineageOS ). I actually bought a pixel to have Graphene as a way out of vendor ROMs again, but I still don't have the energy to switch (alone reregistration all those TAN apps takes ages often involving waiting weeks for stupi snail mail activation letters)
I think the reason why those processors are produced are because it rather makes sense to upgrade your old rig with them. Seems to be the only way actually to increase CPU sales beyond laptops ans smart phones.
I don't see more DDR4 ram being produced. Chinese brands are already starting to produce DDR5 and soon HBM. 'Bringing back DDR4' is IMHO a too bold claim.
I use devenv (yet another nix flake dev environments) and opencode.
It is quite a synergy : my nix usage profits from the agent and the agent profits from being able to install just anything.
I even vibecoded a plugin for personal use that runs all bash tool calls through devenv and uses the supplied nix lsp package:
The only reason I have been switching phones is banking apps: so much for Europe's right to repair..
Probably one can easily make some check boxes for various right-leaning populist governments around the globe. Eco predicts that ur-facism eventually erodes democracy and will lead to a state of constant war. Not so good prospects, at all.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jun/08/secondworldwar...
Still it seems that this is currently not the case [0] (yet).
I guess the risk atm is rather some crazy billionaires embedding their believes in post training and system prompts. But honestly I rather fear tiktok in this regard.
[0] https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/llms-grooming-...