RISC-V is more like 1-3 years away from CPUs existing that have competitive performance in datacenter workloads. Not decades.

But they won’t be manufactured in Europe. Getting fabs up and running is indeed something that takes a very long time.

It seems they actually changed its official romanization to “Bracky” about 3 years ago, probably to avoid that problem. I listed them from memory and hadn’t realized it changed. Still, that old name was used on Japanese merch and marketing for decades, but not in any main series games since those only use the katakana “ブラッキー”.

Eevee’s name sounds close enough to being the same in Japanese and English that they even used the same voice clips for both in some anime episodes and Let’s Go Eevee. The official romanization just has a strange spelling.

Only the French version uses those names. English has Eevee, Vaporeon, Jolteon, Flareon, Espeon, Umbreon, Leafeon, Glaceon, and Sylveon. Japanese can be considered the original names, which are (when written in latin letters) Eievui, Showers, Thunders, Booster, Eifie, Blacky, Leafia, Glacia, and Nymphia.

German, Korean, and Chinese each have different names for them and most other Pokémon too. Other languages like Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese use the same names as English.

I’ve been using Proton Unlimited for a few years and I’m planning to switch to Fastmail soon.

Mostly because I dislike Proton not supporting the standard client protocols. I know Proton’s “zero-knowledge encryption” is the reason why, but that doesn’t feel like the most meaningful privacy gain to me considering it’s only for the message body and doesn’t apply to email metadata. Proton could try collaborating with and extending open standards with the encryption features they need, making it feasible for third-party clients to implement sync without a bridge, but they haven’t.

Needing a mail bridge is a moderate annoyance on desktop. But on mobile it means you’re basically forced to use their app. At least the Proton Android app is GPL and I haven’t had issues with it, but I don’t like the lock-in existing at all. Fastmail in contrast has been pushing forward JMAP as an open standard to make mobile sync on third-party clients better than what’s possible in IMAP.

I also don’t like Proton Unlimited being limited to 3 domains and 15 total addresses (not counting simplelogin). Fastmail has far higher limits there.

Both services seem to use a fair bit of proprietary software server-side but I think Fastmail has more of the important stuff be FOSS including their main imap/caldav/etc server (Cyrus).

This board has the StarFive JH7110 SoC. That processor has previously been in very low power single board computers like StarFive VisionFive 2 (2022) and Milk-V Mars (2023), a Raspberry Pi clone that can be bought for as low as $40. Its storage limitations (SD/eMMC rather than NVMe) show how much this isn’t meant for laptop use.

Very underpowered for a laptop too, even when considering this is intended for developers and doesn’t need to be remotely performance competitive. Consider that this has just 4 RV64GC cores, the cheapest Intel board options Framework offers are 12 cores (4P+8E), and any modern RISC-V core is far simpler with less area than even an Intel E core. These cores also lack the RISC-V vector instructions extension.