To fab the CPUs...seems more plausible than anything else with Intel.

AFAIK Intel Foundry Services are the only product they can't find big customers for. Apple would be the first if they move past the sampling phase.

They’ve already secured Microsoft as a customer, they’ll be making the next Maia AI accelerator for Azure on 18A. Apple would be a much bigger catch for sure, but they have in fact secured one big customer.

I seem to remember 68k software working (on PowerPC Macs) until Classic was killed off in Leopard? I'm likely misremembering the length of time, but it seems like that was the longest backwards-compatibility streak Apple had.

I must just be weird. I prefer light themes.

I want all the colors, including "semantic highlighting", that is, each variable scope getting its own color.

I think the difference between highlighted colors, rather than the specific colors themselves, is what helps me parse code.

The majority of degree requirements are lazy gatekeeping.

Assuming you can get software support for more than one version of 'blessed' distro.

Well, that’s my point exactly: mainline kernel is what all distros eventually use.

As a matter of fact I’m currently running an OrangePi 5 as a server using an unmodified Debian Trixie and hardware support is nearly perfect.

Could you be more specific about what's not perfect yet with the hardware support?

In many ways I'd argue that a popular project is worse, as you end up dealing with a bunch of social factors that take time away from actually making or improving things.

KDE has been my preferred desktop environment since I started playing with linux sometime in the KDE 3 days.

I'm glad the wobbly windows desktop effect has stuck around too: absolutely unnecessary, but it's silly and fun.

My biggest complaint has nothing to do with KDE itself, but the fact that GTK apps are so ugly by default. QT apps look fine in GTK desktop environments though. (At least KDE has easy built-in settings for handling GTK theming these days...I remember it being more of an issue a while back)

Of these options, I'd recommend the SV08, provided you are okay with some mods essentially being required for consistent, reliable use.

These being:

- Eddy sensor (for faster bed meshing, eddy-ng addon for Klipper adds auto z-offset)

- Mainline Klipper/Kalico (required for eddy functionality)

- Some motherboard fan replacement mod (the default is tiny, noisy, and always-on)

Of the others listed:

- Bambu printers and the Elegoo Centauri Carbon have locked-down firmware (possibly with hidden license violations).

- I think the only Prusa machine with that build volume is the XL, which is out of the price range

- The Creality Ender 3 V3 KE is okay, but the build volume is 220x220x240mm

This is if you like tinkering with printers. I gave away my Wanhao and bought a Bambu, and I haven't thought about the printer since. Now I just print.

These are upgrades, not tinkering. None of them are necessary, just QoL. The Eddy sensor is better than anything Bambu's "AI" cameras can do as far as leveling.

You can buy upgrades for your Bambu too.

Yes, but with Bambu I don't need to. Their 5x5 leveling works perfectly, though I will admit that eddy leveling is super cool. I bought a sensor but didn't use Kipper and couldn't use the sensor with Marlin, and I got a Bambu before I switched to Klipper, so I gave the sensor away.

Automation, and ease of skimming articles for one.

PHP package management actually works, for one thing :P