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by wolrah 3y ago
Can anyone who has actual experience in Linux kernel development for ARM platforms offer a realistic defense of the status quo other than "companies making the SoCs don't care nor do the device OEMs that are their primary customer
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by wolrah 3y ago
This is 100% the correct answer. If you ever see a home automation or related device that you find interesting your immediate next step should be to enter "Home Assistant <device>" in to your favorite search engine and see
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by wolrah 3y ago
> It does, I already have a single twisted pair running in the walls of a building where it is hard to run new cables but I can't get more than 100Mb/s at the moment. The 100mbit and gigabit variants of SPE require higher grade
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Because they're built for different roles with different requirements, but in all cases are expected to be used for specialized applications. The 10 megabit SPE varieties are mostly intended to be able to be
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Don't you just make a conservative decision in that case? My eyes and ears disagree all the time, but if one of them says danger that is the one I listen too. In the context of vehicular autonomy it's more complicated than th
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by wolrah 3y ago
Shaded or not, cooling is actually a problem in space because radiating heat in to a "vacuum" is hard. Even a warm atmosphere is easier to transfer heat to than almost nothing. Now a ground source heat pump could be interesting a
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by wolrah 3y ago
The choice is when you buy it. The models with "e" at the end are less expensive, sometimes significantly so, than their hardware-identical non-e counterparts, but they are locked in to the HP+ service in firmware. As far as I ca
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Sure it could be the RPi hat, but it just means the standard is so complicated that people don't implement it correctly. Or there are ways to cheap out on a PoE device that may work in some cases but don't fully and properly
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by wolrah 3y ago
> What is the user action? The concept described is that the compiler would generate these metrics locally and store them for a limited period of time, but there would be no built in method for those metrics to leave the system they were
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Consider how Discord is begging you and everyone to sign up for Nitro because they're housing and serving all of their data. Most IRC networks on the other hand operate perfectly fine off of donated volunteer time and hardware for
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by wolrah 3y ago
I think the "single letter" part is important here. AFAIK trademarks can't be too simple and generic. Sort of like how Intel couldn't trademark 286/386/486, so instead of 586 we got Pentium.
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by wolrah 3y ago
DRMed files can be stored on the normal filesystem just fine, if they're DRMed that means they're encrypted at rest and decrypted on the fly. DRMed content providers might not want to store their files on the normal filesystem b
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Or consider a PWA music player - 50MB of music is all you can play offline. > Or a photo editor - 50MB is the limit for all your saved files unless you want to save them to a cloud server. Why should either of these be saving files
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by wolrah 3y ago
> It’s AGPL licensed which is interesting. Much like Redmine this means modifications or customizations are a license violation unless shared correct? No, AGPL means that if you're using it to provide a network service you must offe
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by wolrah 3y ago
> I don’t know. Unlike a Steam Deck, the lack of a screen or battery or large internal storage helps reduce costs iFixit's teardown of the Steam Deck resulted in them concluding that at least the base model was likely being sold eit
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by wolrah 3y ago
One could make an argument that having to seek out rare early releases to participate in the top tier of speedrunning is not a good thing. It's not like updates changing runs destroys a game's community, see the recently popular
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by wolrah 3y ago
You've basically described a worse Steam Deck, and would likely have a hard time beating the price of a Steam Deck by enough to be worth the sacrifices. Particularly intentionally making it unable to patch games. It's not like ca
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by wolrah 3y ago
I'm not much of a blogger, but here's the short version. If anyone happened to be on #freepbx yesterday morning they might already have seen this. I had just upgraded and migrated one of my clients from an on premise FreePBX syst
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by wolrah 3y ago
Unfortunately I can't really help there, I'm a "learn by doing" type of person who just jumps in the deep end and hopes he figures out how to swim. Most of my learning was just "capture the problem happening, captur
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by wolrah 3y ago
Wireshark is the proverbial hammer that makes all networking problems look like nails. Even if there's a more specific tool available there's a good chance I can swing Wireshark at the problem and figure it out. It continues to b
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by wolrah 3y ago
Also OG Xboxes were cheap and trivial to mod including converting in to debug consoles, so the homebrew community that often drives emulation didn't have as much reason to care. They could just install a debug BIOS, find a copy of the
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by wolrah 3y ago
> And once a year or so, cross country. The key is to not over-value this. If your daily driver is also good at a rare cross country trip then that's great, but how bad is it really if it's not and you need to rent a vehicle w
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by wolrah 3y ago
I think chatbots can and will replace the useless frontline "Tier 0" support agents that all too many companies have. The ones who are working from a script that they can not substantially deviate from where most of us here are j
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by wolrah 3y ago
> It power most of the HMI systems in cars, except some newer ones, which are based on Android Auto and very view exceptions based on Windows Embedded/Auto. My Ford has had both. As a 2015 model it shipped with MyFordTouch which ra
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by wolrah 3y ago
This one seems to fall squarely in the "broken clock correct twice a day" category. Cutting warrantless surveillance is a good thing, but they're doing it for the wrong reason.
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by wolrah 3y ago
> 80+ sounds too high. 80 is good. Absolutely not. The legal limit should mean it is objectively unsafe to go faster in clear conditions no matter what you're driving. It is not supposed to be the speed you expect most traffic to
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by wolrah 3y ago
> If it's the fastlane, then there are other lanes. In these scenarios it's usually two lanes in each direction, and the slow lane is filled with a line of semi trucks that have hard limiters set somewhere in the 65 MPH range a
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by wolrah 3y ago
> Do you mean it's not uncommon for Americans to drive all day to go camping on memorial day weekend or something This, for sure. Those of us who live in the midwest are often hours of boring highway driving aware from anything, so
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by wolrah 3y ago
Link is broken, there's an extra "a" at the end, it should be https://twitter.com/pogue/status/1670835763536183297
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by wolrah 3y ago
What you can run over a few feet of twinax and what you can run over hundreds or thousands of feet of coax with multiple tiers of splitters like the DOCSIS specs are designed for are two entirely different things.

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