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Seems so, yes.

I'd look at wireguard / tailscale / headscale and hide your services behind a vpn

They say nothing about their distro having no upstream. If they make a distro based of Debian/Arch/Fedora I don't see that as dismissing their efforts anymore than Nobara/SteamOS/Ubuntu/Mint does.

I rather they enforce their requirements on their own spin then try to force existing distros to implement said reqs. They should obviously donate to the foss community when using the technology the community maintain though!

EU is behind the restrictions for vaping liquids, not Sweden. :)
https://health.ec.europa.eu/tobacco/product-regulation/electronic-cigarettes_en

Yeah, they had started limiting what you could buy in Sweden as well. My last time mixing I bought a silly amount of 18mg/ml 10ml strong menthol bottles and large 70/30 PG/VG bottles and ended up with my own 3mg/ml mixture that still tasted menthol, although not as overwhelmingly so.

I think part of it is something else - ease of use and ease of access.
The "world that makes sense" product exists already:
https://www.elementvape.com/box-mod-kits

While I was vaping I mixed my own liquids though, as the cost savings was immense and I could easily lower the nicotine mg/ml on my own until I quit it altogether.

Yeah, if there's a full system failure without any backups and no option to get the system operational again then I would land in clone the drives before trying to restore data from them.

1. RAID is never a replacement for backups.
2. Never work directly with a surviving disk, clone it and work with the cloned drive.
3. Are you sure you can't rebuild the RAID? That really is the best solution in many cases.
4. If a RAID failure is within tolerance (1 drive in a RAID5 array) then it should still be operational. Make a backup before rebuilding if you don't have one already.
5. If more disks are gone than that then don't count on recovering all data even with data recovery tools.

If the leaks are correct we're talking about 120W TDP and higher power and thermal efficiency than the 7000 series of X3D CPUs.

L2 8MB, L3 96MB(32MB + 64MB) for a total of 104MB according to Toms Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/extensive-amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-specs-leak-details-unlocked-120w-cpu-with-5-2-ghz-boost-clock

Here's another one putting the blame on them not investing in OpenAI:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/how-chip-giant-intel-spurned-openai-fell-behind-times-2024-08-07/

At the same time Intel is definitely entering the race, and more competition is always nice:

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also appeared at the Intel event, where he announced that his company will use Intel’s relaunched foundry to make future chips.
In 2022, the US government passed the CHIPS Act promising $52 billion to reinvigorate domestic chipmaking and secure silicon supply lines.
According to a Bloomberg report, Intel is in line to receive $10 billion of that money.

• https://www.wired.com/story/intel-ai-reboot-future-us-chipmaking/

Or this piece about creating an open-source software competitor for Nvidia, among other things:

Also importantly, Intel is spearheading a consortium of heavy hitters that are developing open-source software which can interface with all AI chips.
Such software would eliminate Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) biggest competitive advantage: its software, which enables its chips to be easily managed simultaneously.
Intel’s consortium also includes Arm (NASDAQ:ARM), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, GOOGL), and Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO).
It expects to unveil a finished product by the end of this year.

• https://investorplace.com/2024/06/the-sleeping-giant-awakens-intels-ai-push-signals-a-comeback/

Corporate / Enterprise AI solution with quite a customer/partner list:

[...]customers and partners, including Bharti Airtel, Bosch, CtrlS, IBM, IFF, Landing AI, Ola, NAVER, NielsenIQ, Roboflow and Seekr.

• https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1689/intel-unleashes-enterprise-ai-with-gaudi-3-ai-open-systems

They're starting to release tools to use Intel ARC for AI tasks, such as AI Playground and IPEX LLM:
https://game.intel.com/us/stories/introducing-ai-playground/
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/discrete-gpus/arc/software/ai-playground.html

https://game.intel.com/us/stories/wield-the-power-of-llms-on-intel-arc-gpus/
https://github.com/intel-analytics/ipex-llm

Personally I wouldn't count Intel out of the game just yet, gonna be interesting to see what happens during 2025-2026.

So it's a lightweight laptop but lacks the battery time to work on the go. (6 hours)