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Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion? by threshold on Friday September 17, 2021 @12:53PM (#28567750)
RISC-V’s success won’t benefit the end user, only spare designers a licensing fee they can well afford. After recompiling everyone’s software and dividing a huge unified ecosystem the end result will be some political victory with no material value.
Re:Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion? by mydeskistoosm on Friday September 17, 2021 @04:33PM (#28570591)
Isn't there some chance someone will manufacture laptops that people can have 100% confidence don't contain hardware-level backdoors?