They make gaming more and more elitist hobby, and then get surprised when indie games with pixel graphics that can run even on potato devices make a great success.

It's not competing, but collaborating with climate change

According to the site, home routers and dvrs were part of the devices used. Looks like manufacturers abandoning devices without updates is becoming more and more of an issue.

But how do they get the food back?

It would be awesome if there was a community focused on that

Seeing functional risc-v devices popping up is so awesome! Not long ago, they were highly experimental. When I eventually find myself in need of a new device, I will probably get one with a risc-v processor.

I feel personally attacked lol

Running linux and foss software on my shitty hardware since ever

Maybe not directly, but there was a demand for "portable computers", a better input system for phones, better portable cameras, a way to readily access the internet anywhere, among several other things. The smartphone became popular so quickly because it concretized all of those latent demands into a single device.

a reminder to hack the government?

It's a sad thing to see one more sign of how the big tech companies dominated the internet. A lot of people today don't even know how to use their devices, but only how to use the products offered by those conpanies.

Because asking and answering too many questions was exactly how they ended up with a bullet hole in their monitor.

Don't be hasty, there's still 16% of this year to be lived.