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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: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.

Comment Wow this site is horribad. (Score 4, Informative) 18

This site for the challenge is absolute dumpster-fire trash tier for interface.

It tries to enforce 'committing' code like git, but never actually stores anything so you lose all progress even running a test then going back to your code... because it resets back to the 'challenge' point in it's internal commit tree.

And it also has several LLM Generative "prompt engineering" challenges later in the list it looks like, so have another nope.

And the forced loud autoplay videos are just the third ribbon-on-top nope of the whole thing, what a waste.

Comment Re:Cable routing (Score 4, Interesting) 33

As someone that's built several PCs with the GD09 this retro case is based on, it's one of the best airflow cases on the market and has gobs and gobs of room to route the cables all the way up against the front of the case with good places to cable-tie them in place across the front framework, and 100% of the airflow is to the sides by default. It supports either 'positive pressure' case with flow out the top/rear, or cross-flow towards either side which I usually prefer.

It's not a case with glass panels to see the insides, it's a case to setup once in a clean way internally then just use the computer for years after in comfort, with only having to occasionally take the fan filter panels off to dust them off and clip them back in place.

Comment Re:You know what else did harm to our kids? (Score 2) 112

And there's damnably few (basically none) studies even attempting to find causation versus correlation, and many of those aren't finding that being on social media harms kids, but that harmed kids flock to social media as their only available avenue to find others when those in the guardian roles fail them.

And yes, I'm being specific in choosing my words to be as general as I meant to be, please don't try to waffle these rice-cooker pancakes.

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