whitehexagon

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by whitehexagon 11mo ago
Nice, I started with 5 panels (450W each) and a simple design of interchangeable long and short rear legs to adjust the angle of each panel. Base of leg sits in a bracket on a steel frame, and pivots on an M8 bolt. Top of the leg attaches
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by whitehexagon 11mo ago
There are not many sites I whitelist for javascript, or even bookmark these day. Really glad I tried your game, it's fun and nicely executed. Well done to you both.
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by whitehexagon 11mo ago
Agreed. I can only get dried nettle leaf tea here, although seems to be going out of fashion, same with Ginkgo. I got spoilt for teas when I was contracting in Germany. Nettle was very common along with some other traditional teas, includ
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by whitehexagon 11mo ago
Agreed. I had no problem with the conBee II itself, but it did take me a while to figure out different IKEA ZigBee devices required different 'secret handshakes' to tigger pairing. eg number of button presses within a second, I t
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by whitehexagon 11mo ago
The ZigBee range used to include a bulb and remote, so you just leave the mains switch on. Otherwise, I used floor lights in the past with WiFi switchable sockets before I switched to ZigBee. The WiFi ones wanted to dial home.
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by whitehexagon 11mo ago
Although I have been trying to only buy 'needs' not 'wants' recently, I did stockpile a few IKEA ZigBee gadgets before they retired them. One of the few product lines their MBA's hadn't destroyed. I was workin
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by whitehexagon 11mo ago
some background: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44507971
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by whitehexagon 11mo ago
Agreed, GPU is the expensive route, especially when I was looking at external GPU solutions. Using Qwen3:32b on a 32GB M1 Pro may not be "close to cloud capabilities" but it is more than powerful enough for me, and most importantl
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I only just got rid of my spy-phone, why would I want something with even more intrusive spying on me. I certainly would not inflict that upon others. A sure way to lose friends fast. BigTech has burned so much good will at this point, th
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
Sorry for this, but it sounded like the start of a joke, and I couldnt resist: Three AI billionaires went out for chicken and beer, they had no money to pay, but promised to buy a million meals over the next five years, but demanded the own
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
Qwen3:32b on MBP M1 Pro 32GB running Asahi linux. Mainly command line for some help with armv8 assembly, and some SoC stuff (this week explaining I2C protocol). I couldnt find any good intro on the web-of-ads. It's not much help wit
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I was wondering what it would take to fork the internet. Or more seriously, what it would take to create an open source / hardware alternative. Maybe something true to it's routes of academia, ie no commercial activity permitted
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
Not sure. As a developer I like the concept, but the more I read of the legal, the more concerns I have. It reads more like an online tablet, but without service guarantees. Maybe some of the legal was for the website, it wasn't cle
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
Sure, but then maybe it should be two models; one with WiFi for adult gaming, and one that is 100% offline safe model for kids to play with. With the added advantage that the SD card based games can be managed by parents to help manage &#x
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
This looks like a perfect match for the music synth ReacTable, something that never ported well to ipad because of the lack of physical pieces. But my concern would be that this becomes just another Ad platform, but targeted at kids. For me
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
>"The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences." So we were originally predicted to hit 1.5C in 2040, and now it's predi
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I worry that this global push for 'Know Your Developer' and the attempt to make them legally liable for what they produce, is going to destroy open source, An 'open' linux included. After that, certified locked down BigT
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
Well done to you both. I'm only a 1/4 way down your useful TODO list after 12 months. I got bogged down in setting up IRQ vector tables on armv8 and took a huge detour to refresh my assembly skills. So I feel some of the journe
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
Agreed, a very refreshing change. I cant reccomend anything apple or android based, but the PinePhone has some reasonable low-level documentation on itś SoC (Allwinner A64). And there are a great series of tutorials of how Apache Nuttx was
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I do a full shutdown, since it boots from cold into Asahi in ~30s (M1 Pro). Plus I´d rather have a laptop that I know is shutdown, than this crazy 'we might need to do an update whilst it's in your backpack' fake sleeps. I t
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I love the feeling that I own my computer again, thanks Asahi team. But I am so attached to my MBP M1 and remix 42, that I was kinda hoping that this was the final release at the end of the universe, maybe with small patches for the remain
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I still have fond memories of traveling down to London to visit a computer trade show, and leaving the Psygnosis stand with a giant cardboard Lemming, window deco Lemmings, and a much prized Lemmings Demo disk, which is still sat in a box h
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
27B$ funding for a new data center, and massive AI staff cuts, does that mean they already reached their 'god in a box' breakthrough? Or just decided ad slop bots are progress enough. Feels like mixed signals anyway given the in
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I'm running a 4k monitor from the HDMI port on my M1 MBP with Asahi. I was thinking the same, so discovering a hdmi port was quite a nice suprise, especially since only 3xUSB-C
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
It's a nice thought experiment, but for finished software we would need finished, and well documented hardware, like the gameboy example, and that would be in conflict with most of the profit models of BigTech. It's a shame becau
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I dunno, didnt they already crack the 400GB/s memory bandwidth some years ago? This seems like just another small bump to handle latest OS effects sludge. Now the M1 range, that really was an impressive 'outperform' moment o
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I'm currently hacking a toy OS in Zig on the PinePhone, and I have to say the documentation is a bit painful, or sometimes just missing, for parts of these complex SoCs, and that is meant to be a fairly open platform. But the modem bin
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I think my 2001 MBP M1 Pro is ~200GB/s memory bandwidth, but it handles qwen3:32b quite nicely, albeit maxed out at ~70W. I somehow expected the Spark to be the 'God in a Box' moment for local AI, but it feels like they went
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
I bought a decent 4k monitor to go with my 4k media box, and the required 4k cable, but wouldnt play because 'for your safety, blocked because not a TV' or some such nonsense, think it was HDCP? Annoying enough for me to cancel 4
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by whitehexagon 1y ago
Nice. I´d like something stylish like that for my solar inverter, the fans drive me mad.

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