I remember writing code on a pdp-8 where we had to write code to display the character which was typed.

Linus said no to Linux on M1.

The parent comment doesn't say it has to be M1, just that M1 could be the push to make it happen elsewhere.

(also, even if it were about on M1, Linus said he thinks its unlikely, other qualified people disagree)

You are correct. The answer is no Linux on M1.

Not going to happen anytime soon.

It's ok, I'm in no hurry: my current Intel-based Linux laptop works great.

I can dream of an even better one, though!

The question is how far he can get without Apple's documentation. On the CPU side, probably pretty far as they use the standard ARM ABI. On the GPU side? This is where things will get really hairy. Same with the machine learning cores.

I'm not planning to get a macbook. My main contender would be an XPS with a new ryzen cpu on 5nm, if they'll have one next year, or a thinkpad again with Ryzen 5nm. I would not accept anything less.

But thinking about it, it might be that the mobile AMD CPUs are a year behind the desktop ones. So next year the best ryzen could still be at 7nm Zen3. In that case apple will have a 2 year transistor lead. But, will see.

Is there any statement Dell will build Ryzen XPSs?

Only wishful thinking from my side. As mentioned in the post, I hope that the M1 performance and aggressive apple marketing will push premium pc laptop manufactures in adopting the best performance x86 CPUs. And I also hope that AMD will seize the opportunity to get a good chunk of mobile market.

Of course, next year laptop models are probably being finished right now, and it could be that intel still found a way to bribe premium manufactures from including AMD in their premium models.

In my opinion they'll lose marketshare if that happens. But, there are most likely smart people with a lot of more information than me making these decisions.

Linux should be on it shortly, running in a VM environment.

That won't satisfy the purists, but it should satisfy the practical in most cases.

My grandfather died. Now I have to keep a dedicated device to read his Kindle books (and there are a lot of them). The books can’t be transferred.

Even if you buy a DVD, you are still licensing the content. All that you own is the physical DVD.

Apparently your pain and suffering is less important than getting the Sacklers.

The logs will be destroyed ... except for the backup, of course.

and whatever reports or metadata were derived from the logs/db from the time they were collected to the time of the court order.