protests represent the threat of violence. the threat went away and the rulers stopped listening.

afaik, risc and cisc are pretty much the same anymore. x86, risc v and arm all have bloated instructions sets, and they all decode to risc microcode under the hood anyways.

lol those are dram chips in the stock photo.

(more risc v investment away from the us is a good thing though!)

legally no, but it’s not like the governor of colorado is sending ukraine weapons - they’re just words and as such do not violate the constitution. ianal, etc etc

Doesn’t understand or doesn’t care. The ones using it like this are government bureaucracies and monopolistic mega corporations we can’t avoid. Nobody who matters has any real “choice” in the matter.