Android runs on Linux. That doesn't make you Google. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel.
We’re not talking about hardware startups trying to build a minimum viable product,
I once worked for a publicly traded company. It was a few guys doing the custom Asics, one guy doing the board layout and two guys doing the software. This wasn't a minimum viable product. It was a commercial product used by every large bank in the world.
Have you heard of Micronics motherboards? I knew the person who did their first motherboard. It was one person.
You don't need thousands of employees. The Lineage group provides the os. It need only be customized. LineageOS itself is 9 developers working part time as a hobby.
Hardware design is typically 3-5 people with 10 support staff. I've worked for a couple hardware startups.
With the current Minecraft monthly updates, paper is always behind on the latest features. There are also minor problems that paper introduces with its performance improvements.
Years ago paper was critical for a good Minecraft experience, but a newer PC (newer than 6 years old) runs great on vanilla.
It's such a weird thing for them to do. What do they get out of it? It's not like their constituents are going to say, "I'm not sure about my representative but 2 years ago they censured Al Green so I'll reelect them."
Canada needs to cut oil/electricity and keep it cut for 2 years until elections. Americans have no memory. Trump will backtrack in a couple of months and go on a victory tour before the next election. (That things will not be improved won't stop him from claiming victory.) Americans need to be hurting right before the election.
Sorry the first link was wrong but the second link was a research paper that showed them doing it.
Just google electron microscope eeprom and you will find hundreds of documents on the procedure. The second link I provided wasn't theoretical. It showed it actually being done.
"demonstrate the possible [emphasis added] automating "
It doesn't say it isn't possible but that they have a possible way of AUTOMATING it. That is instead of someone looking at the image and reading off the bits into bytes, they could take the image and output the data without human intervention.
That's a consumer data recovery company. They aren't going to use an electron microscope like a nation state, university, or dedicated emulation hacker.
I think the problem is that many companies, if they don't see a path to monopoly or near monopoly, cash out and close shop.
For example Fairphone has been going for 12 years. There's no reason BlackBerry couldn't make a basic phone running Lineage and stick to a tiny profitable market share.
Which is weird because one of Rossman's sources claimed that they were on the phone with Brother, asked how to do manual registration, and were told it couldn't be done unless a genuine Brother toner cartridge was installed.
As Trump said, it's not his fault but the idiot that signed the last trade agreement.
(it was Trump)