Because of the First Past The Post, even a Parliamentary system in the US with the current Mathematics of how Congress or the Senate representatives are allocated from votes (i.e. single winner per electoral circle) would be still be a two party system which doesn’t represent most people.

Just look at Britain (which has a FPTP Parliamentary System) were the current party in Government has more than 50% of members of Parliament even though they got only 34% of votes and is arresting people as Terrorist Supporters for demonstrating against Britain’s support for the Genocide in Gaza, has enacted quite extreme anti-Demonstration legislation and is passing electronic communications surveillance laws similar to those in Despotic Autocracies.

Absolutelly, Presidential systems where ONE PERSON ONLY supposedly manages the nation according to the will of millions are complete total bullshit because it’s impossible that one person can reflect the preferences of millions, but Parliamentary systems with First Past The Post aren’t much better because de facto they’re generally equivalent to 2 sets of views rather than just 1 - theoretically multiple parliamentarians from the same party would mean multiple view, but my experience living in several such countries is that it’s rare for a member of parliament not to vote the same as the rest of the party in a vote - I would estimate that dissent is in average less than 5%.

Not “Western countries”, rather the “United States”.

If for example Europe was doing this, US Tech companies would have almost no market presence over here.

Militaristic “national security” arguments have very little traction in Europe, which is actually part of the reason why there was such tight coupling with Russia at the start of their invasion of Ukraine that it was a lot harder for Europe to decouple from Russia than the rest and even then Russia still kept running Propaganda Ops and financing political parties in Europe with ease.

The individual people leading those companies will be much better afterwards than when they started this shit, no matter how hard the whole thing blows up.

Who wouldn’t be willing to go through the years of founding and building, say, OpenAI, if after a decade or so you’ll at worst “just” end up a multi-millionaire, and if the Tech actually works or even if you just manage to swindle enough suckers before it all collapse, you’ll end up a billionaire.

If you consider those people as sociopath “what’s in it for me” grifters, the entire thing is totally logic because even the “market cataclysm” scenario still leaves them personally far better off than if they hadn’t done any of this and as for everybody else, well, “fuck them”.

Allwinner F1C100s

That’s pretty interesting. I wasn’t aware of those.

That said, Allwinner call in an application processor, so it’s a microprocessor not a microcontroller - 32MB RAM is quite a bit above even higher-end microcontrollers (which generally are more like 8MB Flash and a lot less than that RAM).

Looking at the specs you could do like a mini Linux phone with one (resolution 1280x720 😀), though 32MB RAM isn’t enough for X-Windows.

Not even the more expensive microcontrollers run Linux.

The kind of thing you would see in such a simple device like a dildo are the cheaper smaller ones with RAM sizes and Flash Memory sizes in the KB range and costs less that $1 in bulk.

Mind you, you can squeeze a Linux kernel into a really small amount of memory, but why for a production device pay more for a larger than needed microcontroller and then use most of its storage for a Linux kernel leaving little space for the actual functional code when you don’t need support for things like filesystems or networking?

Microcontrollers are a whole different world from microprocessors.