Syonyk

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by Syonyk 5y ago
I don't know the Pi4 architecture deeply enough to offer an opinion on it, sorry. Ask me in a year or two and I'll likely know it a lot better.
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Where do I find people who can do that? Your local hackerspace/makerspace is likely to have people who can do it, though I don't know how you'd find people who do it professionally. It's a bit of a weird niche, t
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Nothing about the Raspberry Pi’s video system is normal. Nothing about the Raspberry Pi at all is "normal," and it's a very useful filter for people who have read about the various deep weeds of firmware/OS develo
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by Syonyk 5y ago
What prevents you from repairing them now, exactly? Hot air rework stations have come down dramatically in cost, and there's no shortage of videos talking about how to do it. Try a few scrap bits before working on something expensive.
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> While it looks neat, I’m not convinced we’ll see barebone single board computers where users can insert their own eMMC flash and RAM any time soon, since it would likely add to the overall costs. A more likely use would be for board v
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by Syonyk 5y ago
What is the definition of a "repair shop"? I have, on my property, a standalone building in which I engage in a variety of activities to include fairly deep level repair of electronics. I have surface mount soldering skills and e
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by Syonyk 5y ago
And when it does rain, the roads flood, and the trees all come down in the wind, because the 100' tall pine has a root ball that goes down two or three feet (as there's no need to go deeper for water, given the constant drizzle)
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> And an equivalent for phones, too. Or to stop putting so much trust in them, go back to "using them for communication with other people directly," and assume they're being evil, because if they're not at the OS le
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by Syonyk 5y ago
"Jumping into a non-familiar codebase and being useful" is literally what someone is considering paying you for. Years ago, I got tired of some owners of a company I worked for hiring bench techs (small business IT support and suc
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by Syonyk 5y ago
It's "Advanced FizzBuzz." "Can you understand a complex code base, figure out how to zoom in on the section of interest, and add a function?" Far, far too many people interviewing for coding positions can't do
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by Syonyk 5y ago
One sees the same problems with ASLR - page tables were never intended or designed to carry security sensitive information, which the various forms of ASLR are. And so, we see the prefetch oracle, and various cache based trickery to de-A
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Yup. SGX, TSX, all the interesting and complicated stuff seems to be getting deprecated after half a decade or more of "We got it! No, wait, we didn't... uh, this time we got it! Wait, crap, no... uh... but this time! Oh car
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Windows 10, at least, is a perfectly well behaved guest of KVM - you can even get the various virtio drivers that improve performance significantly. I think Red Hat makes the ISO available. I just don't know why you would, though. Ju
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Sorry, what did they think was going to happen when people saw just how blatantly Microsoft said, "You know, the problem with Windows 10 is that we just haven't expressed enough disdain for our eyeballs? The ones we can't
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I've been on a similar journey and have largely ended up in the same sort of place - "Well, everything else has gone to hell in a handbasket, so I suppose I'll use the only things left I don't actively object to."
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> I'd almost describe it as "taking advantage" but perhaps that's too harsh. It is, especially when you consider economies of scale with things like computer production. Building 50 boards is expensive. Building 50
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> You don't even want the clever customers, they make you less money. Some research has been done on "Why are the various scam emails so absolutely horrible, wouldn't they get way more hits if they actually had a native
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Nah, you keep a VM around to strip DRM from your legally purchased content and then toss it on the Kobo. I've got a Win10 VM that exists to strip DRM from Adobe Digital Editions or whatever the current name for that abomination is. Si
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by Syonyk 5y ago
What? You should be able to mount the Kobo as a USB device and stuff ebooks into the root filesystem. What weird version of them doesn't support that?
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I love my Kobos. I've effectively sold quite a few based on how well they work (most of my social circle reads on Kobo now). In addition to "Ok, fine, you can do that thing you're doing anyway" with the recent updates,
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> So how do I use my Kindle? No WiFi, no signing into amazon.com, load all books over USB. To acquire books ethically, I first look at an author’s homepage. Direct purchase is the best option. No need for a middleman. For example, the a
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Is there a reason for that? I can give you mine. I was working with a Raspberry Pi 3, and using a USB SSD. It's a USB2 link, so a bit choked, and I figured, hey, filesystem compression can help here, btrfs supports it, great!
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> That's one heck of an edge case! Yeah... especially if you tend to back up systems when you're rebuilding or replacing them by just backing up the whole disk. It's got everything, you can mount it as a loop device (wh
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by Syonyk 5y ago
It's great for small files, but it's also got some really nasty little corner cases. You do not store ReiserFS filesystem images on ReiserFS filesystems without encryption, or the next time you run fsck, you'll end up with
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I didn't write that article, but I certainly could have - I've noticed exactly the same things, and clearly have had some identical conversations with people about the value of "being informed." The way I describe it is
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by Syonyk 5y ago
But you can't fill 24 hours of "news cycle" without lots of nonsensical filler! Sometimes, the world just doesn't agree with that requirement, so they have to make material.
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> There's plenty of times in Apples history where looking cool has won out over practical concerns. I'm not even sure "looking cool" was a factor in some of the worst ones. "Winning industrial design awards fo
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by Syonyk 5y ago
All of them. If you allow everything and have Ghostery running in "don't block anything but tell me what's there" mode, it's horrifying just how many things get loaded. You can play with page load sizes in the debu
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by Syonyk 5y ago
My policy for any use of photos of our kids on my blog (which is mostly my projects, but occasionally includes triplogs, and as my kids are getting older, they show up a bit more often in builds) is simple: My wife and I both have to be ent
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> The irony to me is I would think curating a website like that is as big a problem as anything. That is going to take up way too much time and space in your brain. I find the opposite, actually. I use my blog to offload projects from

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