Investment and finance in general, at this scale, is far more geopolitics than it is math. It’s self evident.
We’ve all seen how the “math” on so much of the AI business sector literally doesn’t check out, and here there are: still ballooning, still making deals, still directly crafting laws through political influence, still taking over damn near every user space.
Politics at a high enough level lets you play a different game with different rules.
Politics at a low enough level lets you do the same actually, but we usually call that civil unrest, guerrilla warfare, or collective action depending on how many of which group is defying which “rules”.
It’s very easy to get used to the guardrails and guidelines around us when they persist and succeed for decades, but they are much more fragile than they appear.
And? Are you allowed to buy and own a gun because of your point you are trying to make?
No
In germany radio frequencies are also protected. For citizen band / CB above channel 40 you need to register yourself. Every radio device needs to be certified. The only people in germany allowed to build their own radio devices are people with a amateur radio license.
This is not a general purpose computer though. There is no keyboard and you would need to start adding stuff. The volumne then would be bulky as hell. Any small form factor laptop would be cheaper and easier and also has better specs.
A cheap laptop with display and keyboard, which would be capable of all that stuff the flipper can do, starts at 200 Euros.
I can just do all of it with a laptop. At that price point they will have to put it, it will not be worth it to buy it to carry it around to play around 'sometimes'.
I ran the 'alternative' driver version of a wifi card 15 years ago already for basic wep/wpa attacks on my laptop.
I don't think one very specific, custom made, non upgradable linux device gives me that much benefit through an exculsivley free driver.
And just wait for the price point.
Tbh i do like that they are doing this, i like the idea of cyberdecks etc. i just don't think that this Flipper One makes relevant sense. And im quite convinced that Flipper Zero is sitting in a lot of drawers and are absolutly unused.
If they would work/support the framework laptop modules, or would build usb hacker rf type style things and the linux software, that would reduce their risk and increase the reach. But a custom device like this?
Intel and TSMC are not what they are today just because they buy a very expensive EUV Machine from ASML but because they have the knowledge and infrastructure to even use these machines.
"We believe this capability will also enable creating a petawatt-scale AI constellation through the use of lunar satellite production and a lunar mass driver for launch activities."
Someone read waaaaaay to much Sci-fi
Hey lets build a petawatt scale AI somehwere outside of our planet while people can barely survive day to day in the millions but we need to have petawatt-scale AI for these poor people because the AI will do what?
Investment is not basic math. Its also dependencies to US companies, trust etc.