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HP offered FreeDOS as an OS option.

US. has held off adding.. memory chipmaker CXMT

Since CXMT was _not_ blacklisted, this is good for global RAM supply.

Thanks for the pointer.

See Chemistrie, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427032

Lower ambient light, including dark mode, leads to pupil dilation, which is a loss of about 0.5 diopters.

Higher ambient light with low-blue content (from lights and screens), where the room and screen are matched has several benefits.

Natural light is always best and only light mode screens can match natural light.

Progressives maximize legal compliance for automobile driving, with bonus impact on optical industry profits.

Multiple lenses for different focal lengths are now affordable and practical and offer higher optical quality and more comfort.

The human brain mostly adapts. Big Optical makes $$$$ billions. A small percentage of human brains have persistent dizziness and depth perception errors, which can lead to physical injury and reduced quality of life. We don't have yet have a test funded by disablity insurance, which can determine which brains might fail to adapt.

The good news is that multiple glasses have never been cheaper or more accessible, so progressives are entirely a choice.

Search for "Chemistrie" magnetic lens attachment in +0.5 increments. They can even stack for different focal lengths, e.g. reading vs computer screen at 36". Magnets embed in primary glasses. Expensive via local opticians, they will retrofit via mail order and buychemistrie dot com.

Search HN for "ABBE". The very cheapest material has the highest optical quality. Thinner ones are for weight, which matters if you have strong prescriptions. Weight can also be countered with a smaller frame height/width, which might require a vintage or designer frame, but that's a one time cost that can used with cheaper and higher optical quality lens replacements.

FDA approved red light therapy. About USD $100 for device.

This is for US-strategic industrial use cases with long lifecycles due to certification requirements.

  The 1α DRAM node is the most advanced memory technology ever produced in the United States and is well suited to long-lifecycle memory for critical applications, including DDR4 and LP4 products.

Similarly, https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/24/los-gatos-netflix-headquar... (with trail photo)

One place where you’d always find someone from Netflix: the Los Gatos Creek Trail, a paved walking path right behind the office. “We would take our one-on-one [meetings] by just walking out of the building, down to the river, up to the reservoir and back, chatting,” .. Among the people frequently seen on the trail.. was [Reed] Hastings himself. That walk-and-talk tradition is still alive: On a recent spring day, it took just a few minutes after arriving for two people to emerge from Netflix’s office complex to stroll alongside the water, deep in discussion.

Full series currently on Prime/iTunes for $20, with ~80% of the original music.

Yes, Linux developers are officially supported by both Apple and Microsoft, with Microsoft developers being a major contributor to upstream Linux and WSL2 having grown into a capable Linux development environment.

Apple Macbooks support virtualization of Linux on MacOS.

Also keeps lawyers busy.

Asahi focusing on M1 would also encourage secondary market sales of M1 laptops, which are already a primary competitor (see Apple marketing) to current Apple laptops. If Apple wanted to encourage Asahi Linux users to move from M1 or Qualcomm to M5/M6 Apple devices, they could improve device firmware compatibility with Linux, or contribute directly to mainline Linux.

bit of a red herring

It offers an A/B test of "similar" SoC performance and battery life (which users now expect from laptops), without a vertically integrated operating system that was also created by the company who designed the SoC.

Circular talent economy, https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/legendary-qu...

  Just several months after leaving Qualcomm, distinguished CPU and system architects Gerard Williams, John Bruno, and Ram Srinivasan, who are celebrated for their high-performance processors developed at Apple, Nuvia, and, more recently, Qualcomm, established a new CPU startup — Nuvacore — that promises no less than to 'rewrite the rules of silicon.'

A declared winner in the tug-of-war between commercial interests (forced bundling of Vision Pro headset and future smart glasses features into phone and tablets), security of individual users (heretofore claimed as a numerically small subset), collective resistance of users to unwanted UX, national and class-action groups with lawyers to opine on the security of their clients.

How does Ubuntu Linux on recent Qualcomm (ex-Apple Nuvia) Arm laptops compare to Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon?

So much talent, resources and yet-to-be-realized potential already proven by those who have unshackled iPads to use JIT and VMs. In this golden CLI age of LLMs, Apple ships some of the world's best silicon (e.g. M5) for local LLMs on iPad, but it's actively prevented by Apple leadership from running performant CLI apps.

Coming soon to Macbooks, now that Apple's in-house modem removes the need to give Qualcomm a percentage of retail sales price.

iPads offer $2/GB prepaid US data via eSIM.

They will if/when Google does, which may happen this year.

Partially there on Android Pixels with "Linux Terminal". With the rumored convergence of ChromeOS and Android, it should be possible to have a desktop ChromeOS pKVM VM with accelerated vGPU graphics on Android mobile devices that have enough RAM.

When Google ships unified ChromeOS+Android on pKVM on ex-Apple Qualcomm laptops from Dell/HP/Lenovo, Apple executives will have a market-driven reason to make this change. Some iPad improvements appeared after Microsoft shipped Surface 2-in-1.

With smart glasses too, another potential Apple product.

Apple iPad Pro can copy the unification of ChromeOS+Android on Arm (ex-Apple Qualcomm) laptops from Dell, Lenovo, HP.

Could Forstall potentially return under new Apple leadership?

Did Vision Pro leadership subsequently take over Apple Intelligence?