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If a 64 bit ARM/x86 hegemony is a big concern, then why not drop i386 and go with RISC-V? There's both a 32 and 64 bit variants, and a free emulator. Also, it's more useful academically and practically.

There is a possibility of finding a different supplier in an alternate country, as my T Shirt right now was made in Bangladesh. Though there is a possibility that for whatever reason, a supplier has to buy Chinese for some very specific reason. Not all factories are made equal.

But yes, tariffs do just hike up the consumer price.

But then is followed up using the StarFive JH7110 as an example, which is a Linux capable chip with a GPU rather than a microcontroller with neither of those. Given that OP responded to the person giving microcontroller pointers positively, some form of miscommunication is likely here.

There aren't a whole lot of RISC-V processors that abide by the strictest definition of "fully open source" that are that interesting. There's GPU silicon, encode/decode, sometimes a DSP, maybe even random elements like a memory interface that aren't open source. Strip those out and it's just kind of a text mode only computer or micro controller.

You linked a study saying that under 1.5mg/L, fluoride is safe. EPA maximum is 4.0, but secondary standard is 2.0. Current recommendations from the Dept. of Health and Human Services are at 0.7mg/L.

Vegans should already be extremely watchful of their nutrition, as there's for example B12 in a lot of animal products, where a B12 deficiency means you are getting nerve damage.

Andrew Carnegie helped establish a whole bunch of public libraries across the US. He's probably the only reason every town has one.

3D scanning is not some niche cottage industry. There's loads of different solutions by companies ranging from Epic Games to Autodesk, DIY solutions using Xbox Kinect, to dedicated devices. Just depends on what you are trying to do and tolerance for dodgy BS.

And oh, you aren't likely to get a clean 3D model from the get go, more likely is that you are going to generate a point cloud that has to be edited to get a usable 3D model.

To my knowledge, Debian changed deps in bcachefs-tools to synchronize with Debian's Rust repo, breaking it. It's one part that it's a green fs, and the other with clashing expectations of how to treat dependencies between Rust and Debian.

I genuinely can't think up of something other than cooking up a solution using a helper process and a buffer to store messages, which is probably what you are doing anyways. Other than that, you're looking for an asynchronous IPC.

Given that this was circa 2000, could have had provisions for 2 more prototypes for Transmeta and VIA. I doubt they would have gotten far or even start given that they likely wouldn't have very competitive options, but it's fun to think about.

No it's not. Bitlocker, etc are full disk encryption methods. They are trying to prevent someone from accessing your data in the event someone has it physically. They can do other things to compromise the device in increasingly sophisticated methods, but generally speaking, that's what it's trying to do and protecting your device from those are generally up to other security measures.

I read the article, and I am no more informed about this than before. What it tries to explain it doesn't put them into a digestible form, doesn't explain anything, or gets it just plain wrong.

California's wildfire issues are pretty much exactly the same thing what hurricanes on the eastern seaboard are. Except you can't really protect yourself nor your home from fire, and controlling wildfires is a bit of a hot button topic.

Founders cards being worse than board partner models hasn't been true in like 8 years. They switched to dual axial rather than a single blower fan with the 20 series, which made the value of board partner models hard to justify.

Since then, Nvidia is locked in a very strange card war with their board partners, because Nvidia has all the juicy inside details on their own chips which they can just not give the same treatment to their partners, stacking the deck for themselves.

Also, the reason why blowers are bad is because the design can't really take advantage of a whole lot of surface area offered by the fins. There's often zero heat pipes spreading the heat evenly in all directions, allowing a hot spot to form.

Nvidia wants you to buy their datacenter or professional cards for AI. Those often come with better perf/W targets, more VRAM, and better form factors allowing for a higher compute density.

For consumers, they do not care.

PCIe Gen 4 dictates a tighter tolerance on signalling to achieve a faster bus speed, and it took quite a good amount of time for good quality Gen 4 risers to come to market. I have zero doubt in my mind that Gen 5 steps that up even further making the product design just that much harder.

It's a form of digital art meant to highlight the absurdity of the modern internet. Being overwhelmed by all of the forms of multimedia stimulation to finally escape to the ocean and appreciating simplicity is the point

In the US, this is not how things are done. Grades are literally everything within the education system. Learning how the system works and playing how your final grading is weighted including but not limited in regard to tests, assignments, and homework is a gigantic portion of how a student's aptitude is determined.

A lot of the system is based off of memorization and paperwork anyways. Something an AI can do all day, every day.

A nuclear reactor could suffice as a local power source. Maybe fusion in another 50 years. With a local power source, electrolytic oxygen generation is possible. Food, hydroponics.

Transportation? Could figure something out.

Most of this tech is stuff we already have or developed with NASA/etc for the ISS gearing it up as a self sustainment environment. Main problem would be internal volume.

>what's the free and open source version of this tool?

PowerToys is Free and Open Source, and has at minimum an image resizer utility. It's a good starting point for adding on richer functionality like a preview GUI, and I'm sure that the basic video and audio manipulation would be appreciated as additions. Also since it's a Microsoft sponsored project, I imagine that the signing process is drastically different than what OP has experienced.

I know that's really not satisfying to say that "someday we could have this in the FOSS space", but everything starts somewhere.

Though editors like Shotcut and KDENLive are considered non linear since you can layer on different effects, while OP's utility is definitely not that.

Something to do with free software everything, not features that Coreboot provides that a standard InsydeH2O UEFI BIOS doesn't have. I don't quite get it myself, and it is quite a niche, but some people care more about it more than others. A very small amount of people.

There's great risk installing such a thing yourself, as you can end up bricking your laptop with very little recourse than to break out a soldering iron. Or if you don't do your homework carefully, end up with a half functioning PC because things like display brightness and audio apparently require driver binaries within UEFI that need to be there to work.

That is a Clevo laptop, but many vendors do use their models and don't advertise as such. Gigabyte, for example, uses Clevo for their bottom tier models with no special marketing name. I don't doubt that their other models are Clevo, but I can tell that those ones are.

I know there are a bunch of laptops that have good support for Linux, but I'm talking one more level deep than that. Good support for Coreboot UEFI is hard to come by, and FOSS EC firmware (this makes laptop specific features possible) to my knowledge is unique to System76.

Those two components are the unique selling propositions System76 has over your standard Linux-ready laptop. And they aren't quite unique when you realize System76 is commissioning laptops from the likes of Clevo.

E: I know I just rehashed by last comment a little bit, but it felt like the point didn't come across properly. I was supporting the mention that the Linux-first USP of S76 wasn't strong enough, and building on top of it.

System76 has their own UEFI BIOS and EC firmware, but that doesn't even make it better since you can hypothetically buy a Clevo laptop and mod it to be a brother from another mother.

I bet if that water was analyzed the same way NIST would and painstakingly recreated, if they were to blind taste test it with those folks, they couldn't tell the difference.

Feels like 3D printers have changed. A slicer from 10 years ago is not going to generate as good a print as one from today. And it feels like the variety of filaments from 10 years ago has greatly changed.

That's pretty cool at first glance, but I can't help but be critical in that the trial drink isn't carbonated, the drink is primarily for the demographic that would care about such a thing, and wax paper generally isn't recyclable.

Technically speaking, a good majority of SteamOS is just Arch with a bunch of FOSS software on top making Steam work its magic. There's nothing stopping someone from developing a copy that's open to much more hardware.

Though I do wish that they tested something like Fedora or Ubuntu as a benchmark.

Doesn't also count plenty of legacy servers out there that are on the MBA style of IT: Don't fix what's not broken and deny, delay, defend but for the IT department.

DOS, Win9x, and NT broadly speaking should be relatively fine though depending on how Y2K was fixed.

How could anyone tuned into Google be surprised about this? Pichai's Google has barely managed to make a consumer facing product/SaaS that wasn't inevitably killed off, barely worked at all, or competing with a parallel Google product at the same time. Their latest woes with AI and internal culture clashes are just the latest bubble rising to the surface of what's been going on internally for a very long time.

Keeping things pretty simple in project scope and hardware helps quite a lot