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Comment Re:Using an FPGA is something I guess (Score 1) 89

I'd say it's a reimplementation, but not an emulator. It's circuitry, not microcode; the code only determines the configuration of the circuitry. It's also not the original hardware, though, it's only as close as you can get. On the other hand, they could also potentially make improvements later.

Comment Re:Ugh (Score 0) 31

Why are you searching for cheap Chinese stuff? If you don't want Chinese stuff then just search for name brand products.

Amazon doesn't have a search for only name brand products. You'd have to search each brand individually, which would be agonizing. Even if they did, it would just include bullshit brands.

The only difference between shopping at amazon versus a local store, is that Amazon shows you 100 different Chinese options while your local shop has just 1 Chinese option.

Today it seems like most products are designed by Chinese OEMs and then "American" brands contract them to produce them with their logo on them. You can often find the same product with another brand on it, usually with no other visible changes except being in a different color.

Some of those products might have different internals than the name brand version, but then, the name brand version might have multiple versions with different internals.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 158

Even here in the USA an F150 is properly called a "pickup" or "pickup truck" and not just a "truck", but America doesn't care about what's proper.

The law in the USA refers to what you call a "truck" as a "heavy truck", though it's not only semi-tractors but just also any other truck over a certain gross weight rating.

Comment Re:Does Anyone Know..? (Score 3, Informative) 27

Link from the summary you didn't read: https://www.phoronix.com/news/...

Text from the link you didn't read: The supported hardware/targets with Debian 13.0 on RISC-V include the SiFive HiFive Unleashed, SiFive HiFive Unmatched, Microchip Polarfire, and the VisionFive 2 and other JH7110 SoC platforms. Plus QEMU can work with Debian RISC-V as an emulated/VM target. Other RISC-V single board computers may work fine with Debian 13.0 if resorting to using their vendor kernels. Support for additional boards in the future may come to Debian 13 via Trixie-Backports.

Comment Re: Worries about this already existed (Score 1) 254

What if, instead, you just openly publicized that the Pentagon writes checks willy-nilly that the Fed, ultimately, cashes or promises to cash, and why can't we use the same blatant money creation to fund basic income without needing taxes?

That's been tried, nobody cared.

Well, that's not true. A lot of people said they don't want anyone to get anything.

Comment Re:Worries about this already existed (Score -1, Flamebait) 254

From what I have heard, the Defense Department of the United States has never passed an audit.

Exactly. Every year they fail to explain big amounts of money with lots of digits before the decimal place. We should cut their budget specifically by those amounts until they learn to pass an audit. Then we can look at how much money they need to continue operation.

Comment Re:Maybe... (Score 1) 39

I recently went back to a full-size desktop keyboard thinking I would love it, but me - "WTF why do I have to push so GD hard just to type !!"

You have choices. There are desktop keyboards with a very broad range of pressure and keystroke specs, and then there are also mechanical keyboards with swappable keyswitches where you can choose your own specs. They come in both standard and low-profile, low-travel variants. Standard keyswitches seem to have total travel between 4mm and about 3mm, with actuation points anywhere from 2mm to 3mm, and the force varies a lot as well.

I am currently running outemu silent peach switches. I have two boards using silent peach v1 and am about to try silent peach v3s for a new 75% layout keyboard. All versions of these switches are linear and damped for nosie reduction. They also all have 3.3mm travel, the actuation is at about 2mm, and they are factory lubricated so they are very smooth. I have tried Kailh, Outemu, Reddragon, and Cherry switches and so far I like Outemu the best, but I haven't tried lubing genuine Cherry branded switches yet.

Comment Re:The disadvantage of a bigger laptop (Score 1) 39

I also was stunned by the sudden, complete disappearance of the netbook, which I thought was an ideal combination of form, capability and price (they were cheap).

I owned an Acer Aspire. It was almost $300 with a single-core Atom and a 10 widescreen display. Some years later I bought the first new laptop in a bunch of years. It was $300 with a 2C2T AMD processor (Zen/Raven Ridge) and a 15" widescreen display.

Netbooks existed because people wanted a cheaper laptop, and they went away because the parts got cheaper and you could get a laptop with actually decent specs for a low price.

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