It was news to me that Samsung A series removed SD card support! That was my go to solution for SD card supporting phones.

There is the Nothing CMF Phone, albeit SoC is weaker.

Other than that, yes, it would be Chinese brands.

Depends where you live, phones with SD cards are common in many countries (availability isn't tied to income levels or regional geography).

NYT honestly never paywalls me (I don't live in North America/EU), so I can't figure out if the article is free or not.

I usually add an archived version if I know there is a paywall (going to do that).

I am not expert, but I believe the relationship between socket specs and CPU architecture is not linear. I.e. You can have radical changes in CPU architecture, while still using the same socket.

For example, AM4 can support CPUs from Ryzen 1700X to Ryzen 5800X3D. And clearly the 5800X3D is a whole different beast from Ryzen 1700X.

What are you on about?

I never mentioned anything about capitalism and communism.

At any rate, tankies are supporters of genocidal, authoritarian state-capitalism, so whatever you're trying to imply is moot.

It took Intel a while to figure out that people who buy CPUs at retail (i.e. DIY segment) value sockets that last at least for a few generations.

I love this!

I wonder if anyone under the age of ~30 would get the meme.

And why exactly is it a use case if you can already buy erotica/porn via specialized payment services without monero?

What's the benefit here? Be clear and specific. Don't randomly bring terms like "privacy", "uncensored" and "freedums".

This does not make sense.

What you're saying is that it's impossible to buy porn/erotica online without monero. This is clearly wrong.

You most definitely could do that before blockchains were a thing.

No, it's not a viable use case.

Developers of such games what the broadest market possible and consumers want easy accessibility and stable updates/support.

The groups outlined above are interested in the product and not promotion of some cryptocurrency.

Both these goals are best served using real currencies, not monero. Such payment systems (using real currency, aimed at content with erotica/porn) are widely available and haven in use for 30+ years.

If you don't want to deal with such payment systems directly (e.g. setup an LLC and other such matters), there are multiple easy to implement distribution approaches that one can launch in ~15 minutes.

This is why I don't trust crypto promoters.

What's wrong with calling genocide white-whitewashing, pro-russian genocidal imperialism individuals scum.

The funny thing is the tankies don't even speak Ukrainian or russian and have never lived in Ukraine or russian.

Literally scumbag roleplaying as communists.

A deal would be the latest of Trump’s unprecedented interventions in the U.S. private sector. He recently secured a commitment by Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices to pay the government 15% of their sales in China in exchange for export licenses. In Nippon Steel’s takeover of U.S. Steel, he received a “golden share” giving the president sway over how the company operates.

Fascinating to see how shallow American internal polemics are on topics such as "government intervention" (and beyond). Just goes show that for us non-Americans, we must never take the content of such polemics literally.