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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Those of us in large corporations see that pattern quite often. It's sad there's such a dilution of responsibility such problems are allowed to persist, and that nobody cares they are killing random people phones.
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> That's way beyond most ordinary users though. To take a broken phone to the mall where there're a small store that's known to fix phones?
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> It's incredible to me that there is no bullet proof recovery mode for this, even something as dumb as an Arduino can recover from almost every form of abuse. There's a bullet proof recovery mode, check my comment below ( htt
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> How hard would it be to revert to the previous working version? In Qualcomm EDL firehose mode? Super simple if you have the QPST: the phone is waiting for an image to write to the flash. It's actually waiting for the image to imme
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I've posted a small summary below, with links to consistent reports of this happening + a software course of action to unbrick the phones. It's totally on google who's refusing to release the QPST files. It's creating ew
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I don't use smartphones but I find their software stack very interesting. I just investigated a Pixel 5a phone that was brought to me for "sudden death". The owner reported the screen showed an update attempt, then ended up b
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by csdvrx 3y ago
"Consistently shows disregards for costs, performance and practicality to deliver predictable increases in the team size, budget and number of direct reports"
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by csdvrx 3y ago
With the extra keys, you can have 4 modifiers on each side of the space bar: Control, Win (Super), Alt and Cmd - total 8 modifiers, ideal for your thumbs! This still leaves you with the Yen and the Ro key to map for other things!
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> iwd has really been a joy to work with for me, so clear & direct, with easy config files & a very pleasant little tui/cli. I discovered it on arch. It's a perfect companion to bluetoothctl, and far better than what I
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by csdvrx 3y ago
It is a very nice keyboard layout. I'm very happy I discovered it (even if it was by mistake!) Another example I can think about: remap the Ro key to toggle between international layout while it's pressed, so you can switch betwee
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> (am not even Japanese, just have bad habit of using thumb clusters a lot, and this is the only layout with small space bar) Same, the 106/109 keys JP layout is wonderful! I use the Ro key as a quick desktop toggle (right next to P
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by csdvrx 3y ago
If I can disable the phone features, I absolutely want one! I don't carry a phone, but I carry a Moaan eink reader. Having a physical keyboard would be ideal for the secondary use I've found for my Moaan: it's been slowly rep
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by csdvrx 3y ago
The real question is, when will I be able to use my FSA/HSA to buy my Oreos?
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> It looks great, but to me this is pretty much the opposite of what I want to use - the demo video at least is so busy, and full of transitions and other distractions. They are optional: you can make them last 100 ms, or just remove the
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> And because it's Perl I bet it runs pefectly on Perl interpreters shipped on OSes today. That's a superpower (software that will not bitrot): last month for a new project, I hesitated between C and perl but chose perl.
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Please don't take my comment in a bad way, but to me it feels wrong to take what's being offered for free and without limits by another company (here, issues from github), to then monetize it. It may look like a good idea to make
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I had a project of baking in sixel support into nnn, but got too busy with other things :(
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Should be doable with bash's PROMPT_COMMAND if you are still on bash Already done, with also PS0 and a sqlite backend: https://github.com/csdvrx/bash-timestamping-sqlite
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> The main issue with fixing it properly is that I'd most likely have to reverse engineer the Windows kernel or the UEFI firmware itself Before doing such complicated things, have you tried with RU.EFI?
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by csdvrx 3y ago
If I may guess, with a dongle supported by flashrom, soldering wires to the flash chip, and a lot of patience - because doing the same thing from say linux can run into permission problems: the firmware really doesn't want you to read
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> (sadly, reverse engineering that is a pain), and that the Linux kernel is most likely the place where an actual fix has to happen. You did most of the work already, and it's super interesting (or at least, it's the kind of th
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> From TFA: "Note: At this point, I checked that Windows and various other UEFI tools are able to read the variables just fine, so Linux’ output is confirmed to be incorrect." UEFI is a bit complicated and it's well known
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Geeking Out with UEFI(oofhours.com)
2 points by csdvrx 3y ago|0 comments
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by csdvrx 3y ago
The UEFI entries are just regular EFI variables, except they use a special GUID: 8BE4DF61-93CA-11D2-AA0D-00E098032B8C cf https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67395528/ and the actual description in https:/&
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> So maybe it could be done with a current/forthcoming consumer USB PD wallwart, without needing to add additional power circuitry? You may need a circuit to negotiate the USB-PD, then to ouput 20V from that, but it should be possib
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by csdvrx 3y ago
I absolutely love this take! My personal quirk is to be "phone free": I don't carry a cellphone. I have one, but it stays at home, plugged in. I only take it with me if I have to take a flight. On most days I only carry a Mo
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by csdvrx 3y ago
Yes, there is beam forming. Do a websearch about MIMO and beamforming, or ask Bing chatgpt to explain it.
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by csdvrx 3y ago
If I don't want to use tor, but just reduce fingerprinting, is there a solution that wouldn't depend on extensions but use the features from a regular browser? Firefox could limit the fonts and the resolution it reports to "u
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> The huge 170W power brick is the reason not to just move to it now, since I have a fleet of 90W AC adapters I've been using for everything since the T60. Can't you get a barrel connector on top of a modern GaN adapter? It sho
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by csdvrx 3y ago
> Money can alleviate hardship and stress, but happiness is more than absence of sadness, hardship, or stress. Indeed: happiness seems to require a certain degree of introspection to realize other things, such as social status or Ikegai,

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