“Apple choosing to partner with a Chinese military company would be a grave mistake,” John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House China committee, told the FT.

“Helping the [Chinese Communist Party] succeed in its plans to dominate critical supply chains will make our country’s tech industry and economy more dependent on China at a time when we must build secure tech supply chains with our allies,” Moolenaar said.

If Micron wants a protected market, then I think that it’s not unreasonable to also require that it come with an obligation to make enough memory to meet demand. Maybe they will in the long term, but they clearly are not doing so now and won’t be for the next 18 months.

CMXT is not going to refrain from producing memory if Apple doesn’t buy from them. Memory is a commodity. As long as there is someone in the world who wants to buy memory — and there is a lot of pent-up demand out there — CMXT is going to be able to sell their memory.

If the Chinese government wants to subsidize memory production, great. Right now, we don’t have enough, so that’s solving a problem we have using China’s resources. If Micron starts to get in trouble down the line, if they can’t produce at competitive prices, and we view it as a national security imperative to have domestic memory production, then look at protection.

If you’re on Linux and aren’t particularly fussed about any issues stemming from power loss, you can probably run it under eatmydata and it’ll disable SQLite calls to fsync().

from what little I’ve seen - canids seem to be pretty common preferences

https://furscience.com/research-findings/fursonas/3-1-species-popularity/

In an online study, we collected information on more than 6,000 distinct fursonas, which were categorized into 852 unique species (which were subsequently organized for ease of presentation.)2 Many of the species listed were unique and, as such, cannot be presented in order to preserve the anonymity of our participants. In the figures that follow, such species are aggregated in the “other” categories for the most relevant group.

First, we present the data for all species. We then proceed with a group-by-group breakdown of popular categories. Within each category, “unspecified” means that the species was simply identified as the category (e.g., within the “wolf” category analysis, “unspecified” refers to people who just put “wolf” rather than any specific breed/type of wolf).

Please note that this category breakdown is not meant to reflect biological taxonomy or cladistics, but is instead meant to be a close approximation of how groups of similar species “clustered” together (e.g., the authors know that a wolverine and a badger are not “rodents,” but included them in with “small furry mammals” for ease of analysis).

Hybrid is #1, at over 14%. Then Wolf, also a bit over 14%. Then Fox, a bit over 10%. Then Dog, at 9%. The only other non-other canid category is “canine”, at about half a percent.

So say on the order of half of the fandom at most, if you assume Hybrid and Other are mostly canine. Maybe as low as a third.