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Comment Re:Hmm...cribbed from the SoC application notes? (Score 2) 71

That was my response as well, it cut&pasted pieces of someone's reference design and claimed it as its own. We also have no idea how good it actually is, "it manages to boot" and "it meets its performance specs" are very different things. I've got Linux to boot on hardware I've literally pulled from the garbage (dumpsters), but I wouldn't be running anything critical on that.

Comment Re:Cord-cutting cord-cutter (Score 1) 56

That seems to be the answer, buy a TV from some Chinese brand whose business model is selling you a TV, not selling you to its clients. Kinda telling that the companies the Chinese-bogeyman stories claim are spying on us aren't the ones doing the spying, it's the brands that you never hear scare stories about.

Comment Re:SNAP (Score 1) 71

Or the thousand-odd RTGs the Soviet Union scattered all over its territory, many of which were later dismantled by scavengers for scrap metal. The story has a fair of of sensationalist scaremongering, "nuclear device" makes it sound like they left a warhead lying around somewhere, and the "may contain Pu-239" is the equivalent of "may contain nuts", they used Pu-238 specifically because you can't use it in weapons.

Comment Re:Roblox is a gaming platform, like Fortnite (Score 1) 64

The Roblox FUD has to stop. It's a simple gaming platform that makes it very easy for amateurs to clone and customize existing games.

It's also a pedo smorgasboard with zero attempt at reining any of it in. If you've got a pre-teen kid on there, go and have a look some time at the stuff they're exposed to, and what they get invited to.

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