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9 piecesthe runoff
For forty years consumer volume paid for the leading edge and the serious work picked up what was left. That direction reversed, and memory prices are …
backline
A quantum computing announcement where the interesting number is a latency budget. On 10 September, Xanadu and AMD released Backline: an open-source …
twenty-five years in hardware
Apple handed the company to the man who builds the enclosures. That is a claim about where scarcity went.
two years downstream
A Teams appliance, a signed-firehose wall, a driver nobody received, and four times I was confidently wrong.
ThinkSmart View
A Lenovo Teams appliance freed from its kiosk, running mainline Linux with the speaker driver its manufacturer never wrote down.
sixty dollars
A dead-end tablet, a bootloader the internet said was welded shut, and a toggle nobody checked.
onn 8 Tablet
A sixty-dollar Walmart tablet the manufacturer abandoned, running LineageOS 23.2 and a live lab dashboard instead.
spot price
Part of the AI buildout is financed at the checkout, by people who will never buy a GPU.
cover the light and the camera dies
Meta has turned the recording LED into a safety interlock. The consent of everyone in the room is now enforced by firmware, which means it is also …