That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
I am assuming they are referring to ray-tracing in general as “RTX”. AMD GPUs can do ray tracing.
It’s all about the price. You need a use case where the bezel and gpio power doesn’t matter.
And the vast majority of russians couldn’t care less.
There is as much knowledge (if not much more) about computing among people in general.
The big difference compared to the 90s (not to mention earlier) is computing is mainstream. Back then, you would likely have a home desktop and some people had work PCs. Internet was still a somewhat niche technology and internet services were crude and in limited in scope.
These days everyone has at least a smartphone and most likely a notebook. Everything has gone digital. Even (some) government services are accessible via mobile apps.