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Comment Re:Start/Stop doesn't fit non-hybrid powertrains w (Score 1) 304

It's the same start/stop system and engine as the Ram 1500 pickups have used since 2013 (and still use today in fact), so it's not a Jeep-specific thing in this case, just I've encountered it twice because of the prevalence of Jeeps off-roading and they don't get the 'commercial vehicle' exception to being able to make the ESS optional at purchase time.

Comment Start/Stop doesn't fit non-hybrid powertrains well (Score 2) 304

I've been on multiple off-road trail drives where at least one newer Jeep Wrangler had it's start/stop system start fail in some way and couldn't keep running because of how Chrysler implemented the system on those engines.

One had to be limped home with an escort 15 minutes at a time, the engine would just stop while in gear and ignore the gas pedal until it was fully switched off and restarted, code reader kept saying errors in the start/stop system, etc.

The other one just didn't risk it, called a tow truck and opted to wait. Code reader also said start/stop system fault codes when we looked them up. Different Jeep from the previous one, BTW!

Start/stop is basically built in for hybrids, but for non-hybrids they're often just a boat-anchor mis-feature along with cylinder de-activation that mostly only exists to game EPA numbers.

A well engineered one that for example has an electric power steering pump and brake master cylinder that doesn't rely on the engine running to maintain pressure? Can be good.

But that still needs a MUCH stronger starter to survive even a single heavy-traffic commute where it will cycle 20+ times in an hour and only a few minutes in between to recharge, let alone years of that, and stronger/larger alternator and battery to handle the much more frequent rapid charge/discharge cycles, etc.

And at that point you're most of the way to a mild hybrid, so the good ones just get turned into a true hybrid model at that point.

So as a Prius owner? Good riddance to this, IMHO. It never really fits well on non-hybrids because so many other things are tied to the engine running and moving those off is most of making a vehicle a hybrid already.

Comment Re:HDMI was born to DRM (Score 2) 127

...that's not DVI, that's DisplayPort.

DVI is the prequel to HDMI, that single HDMI port on your GPU is also putting out DVI signalling at the lower bitrates. It's also how the various RP2350 "HDMI" boards work, is the DVI protocol is a very simple subset that the early generations of HDMI was built on top of with additional data structures.

Comment Re:User Problem (Score 1) 243

...also in what tectonic era are they still buying a mouse to use with a laptop that requires a dedicated dongle instead of connecting over bluetooth?

The whole issue here is they're trying to limp along a bunch of old tech, and even then they could trivially get a $5 USB hub, or very likely plug the mouse into the monitor instead, most USB-C connected monitors have USB-A ports as well.

Comment Re:A robo call? (Score 1) 81

Soon we will have AI call screening that answers for us, interacts with the caller, and decides whether to handle it directly, disconnect, or forward it to the user. At what point do we just have AI talking to AI, peddling AI services to AI agents? Will we end up with both sides of the AI getting into a generation loop and find calls of them repeating a word or phrase at each other indefinitely? Or will the human suddenly have a 117 quadrillion dollar charge declined on their credit card because their AI agent agreed to buy one petaseat of licensing?

Suffice to say: "What could possibly go wrong?"

Comment Re:Raspberry Pi SBC with ARM and RISC-V cores (Score 1) 28

The RP2350 is in fact even more exciting/interesting:

The burned-in bootloader is only setting the initial state of each CPU core, they can in fact be individually switched between Arm and RISC-V mode, and yes you can in fact run one of each CPU cores in parallel!

So a fast way to experiment with RISC-V code is leaving a 'monitoring' process on core 0 in ARM mode that watches for new code to be uploaded over USB with small standard libraries, stop core 1, unpack the fresh code to SRAM, restart core 1 again in RISC-V mode.

Comment Re:Does Anyone Know..? (Score 2) 28

RP2350s with 8MB of PSRAM can in fact run RISC-V Linux, though it would be one of those 'sans bootloader' installs with just a raw kernel in that case, and serial console over a RPi debug cable.

https://github.com/Mr-Bossman/...

So yes, it could in theory have an RP2350-unique spin and as more upstream features happen there like SD card and/or HSTX DVI output it could happen.

Comment AKA: Round robin DNS load balancing. (Score 3, Insightful) 21

Basically all major hosting providers even describe this technique as a cheap easy way to add load balancing without a dedicated load balancer, this 'fast flux' method is just a way lots of people did it if they didn't control the DNS server either by constantly pushing new DNS records instead to cycle between.

It's been used for decades, plural. Just suddenly it's a big security threat because it makes tracking more complicated somehow?

Comment Re:Breakable (Score 2) 107

And 90% of the difference in cameras is not the sensor, there's only a handful of those on the market in the end.

Install the Google PXL version of the camera app and you'll regain most if not all of the camera quality basically instantly because you'll get the properly massaged sensor output instead of the raw bits that the OEM vendor camera app spits out.

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