Not quite but credit cards and Interac e-Transfer.

This is a very accurate explanation. ☝️

Most of them are.

It’s so much better than The Wild Robot!

An open source CPU, somewhat competitive with good ARM and x86 cores would be a groundbreaking achievement.

Amid the DeepSeek surge, smaller firms using AI may turn to RISC-V chips for cost savings. The report notes that even if a 10 million yuan RISC-V setup delivers 30% of NVIDIA or Huawei’s performance, purchasing three could still be more affordable.

Yup. If these guys come up with a half-decent CPUs they won’t have to pay the ARM, Intel or AMD premium, they can significantly decrease the cost of compute in a whole lot of sectors and use cases. And if they open source and / or sell those chips to everyone…

And I think it’s just a matter of time for them to develop those designs.

I’m also looking forward to working a couple of days a week, training and coaching young developers.

Alright so this is where the next great cores are likely to come from.

A for profit worker co-op is very different than a private for-profit. A for-profit worker co-op would be fine ik my book and in fact preferable than a non worker co-op nonprofit.

I think there’s a difference in definitions, as well as difference between non-profit/not-for-profit and charities. As far as I know what your described is a non-profit and a non-profit can sell services.

As far as I read LPCAMM in its current state does not work for this. The electrical noise is too high. These things aren’t the same. A repairable waterproof phone can be made without glue by making it a bit thicker. In the case of RAM today, we’re hitting fundamental physics limitations with speed of electricity and noise. At this point the physical interconnect itself becomes a problem. Gold contact points become antennas that induce noise into adjacent parts of the system. I’m not trying to excuse Framework here. I’m saying that the difficulty here borders on the impossible. If this RAM was soldered and it had bandwidth no different than SODIMM or LPCAMM modules then I’d say Framework fucked up making it soldered, majorly. As I said, there’s no point buying this if you don’t care about the fast RAM and use cases that need it like LLMs. Regular ITX board with regular AM5 is the way to go.

E: To be clear, if this bandwidth could be achieved with LPCAMM, then Framework fucked up.

You get fast memory as a result. If you don’t care about the fast memory, there’s no good reason to buy this, with their motherboard. There’s a use case this serves which can’t be served by traditional slotted memory and the alternative is to buy 4-5 NVIDIA 3090/4090/5090. If you want that use case, then this is a pretty good deal.

My AM5 system doesn’t post with 128GB of 5600 DDR5 at higher than 4400 at JEDEC timings and voltage. 2 DIMMs are fine. 4 DIMMs… rip. So I’d say the present of DIMMs is already a bit shaky. DIMMs are great for lots of cheap RAM. I paid a lot less than what I’d have to pay for the equivalent size of RAM in a Framework desktop.

I also don’t like System76 hardware, but they’re doing this software work that they’re hoping to recoup with hardware sales. If this becomes a good replacement for GNOME, for me it would be worth paying whatever they’d make from a laptop. But I ain’t buying their laptop because I don’t like it and I don’t need it. So I’m gonna give them the difference somehow. 😂

If this becomes a good replacement for GNOME I’d pay the profit margin of a System76 laptop for it.

I didn’t assume that. While that’s one interpretation of my comment, there are others.

I don’t think this is true. I think there are multiple avenues for which Musk could be prosecuted if Trump wants him gone. All he has to do is say the word and Musk will be in jail on the same day.

What you’re experiencing isn’t hyperinflation. Hyperinflation is more like when a loaf of bread is $1 today, $2 a month after and $10-100 by the end of the year. Grown up in country during hyperinflation.

Well in capitalist countries there’s also the problem of distribution of the value created by automation that displaces workers. So workers have the incentive to not automate since they’re often left out of the value the automation produces.

Is it an official Chinese policy to pursue automation as a means of dealing with population decline or is it just the obvious solution?