Yeah the main thing about Chinese's companies dependency of Western chips is that it's another venue for putting political pressure to avoid conflicts in the area. Once the Chinese don't need anymore Western chips, they can safely ignore some type of embargoes.
JeffKerman1999
Microsoft was doing a somewhat ok job at windows with windows7. Then they decided to do stuff like remove media center and remove support for TV tuners and pump up the tracking and assorted idiocies
They would not want to break the stock game for their friends
Yesterday was Sunday and the beginning of the month
Uh, all games had patches and mappacks downloaded directly from the game's distributor. It was extremely slow, hence the invention of CDNs like filehippo, hwfiles, 2cows etc and some gaming companies (at the time you could rent your own server and host the games. Incredible, huh? You could also have LAN parties and play with your clan against other clans all using LAN, no internet required) were also doing mirroring of those files (in Italy it was gamearena and ngi, for example). Steam wasn't even a thing.
Uh why should I buy this instead of any other SBC?
We can always go back to the old ways of having a download from the company website and downloading directly from them. What? Nobody wants to pay for bandwidth? Nobody wants to have to pay for secure management of credentials and billing? :O
But you can sell for 47 on epic. You just cannot sell for 47 on epic giving a key that redeems on steam.
Hahahaha!!! Let's see how long this investigation will last :D
Do you think this will matter? Dude isn't going to be elected again, he's doing a putsch removing anyone in the army that isn't loyal to him AND he's legally allowed to kill anyone anywhere. Do some riots against armed drones and see what happens.
I mean everyone was warned about it, they gladly vote for the guy so - to quote the first lady - "I don't really care, do you?"
...but the cameras and AI did :(