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jogu··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
Perhaps the controversy created by these pull requests is partially responsible for bringing attention to the issue and resulting in change to the legislation.
jogu··on SiFive's First Server Platform
AMD GPUs have worked on RISC-V for a couple years at this point. I have a Milk-V Titan that's paired with an AMD GPU running well: https://milkv.io/titan
jogu··on I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Over the past few years I've felt the iPhone keyboard has degraded in quality so much. At first I thought I was just getting old, but I've seen so many people with a similar sentiment that I think it is actually the devices fault.
jogu··on Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore
On an iPhone like half of the information was wrong and conflicted prior information. And then stopped responding at the gathering ip, etc part.
jogu··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
A 1 TB Xbox is now $800 USD, where Microsoft is allegedly eating a $150 loss on each sale. Console pricing just hasn't reflected the realities yet or are eating the loss (to be made up via software sales). If their next console is open, they'll be in the same boat as Valve and won't be able to sell the console at a loss as there's no guarantee software sales will follow.
jogu··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
This article touches on why I think a lot of disdain for Nintendo's game key cards is misguided. They're functionally equivalent of what Xbox/Sony consoles have been doing for the past 2 generations but at least provide clear labels and marketing that the game won't function without online activation / downloads.
jogu··on The myth of Snow Leopard
Yeah, there's a sentence about how they downgraded twice!
jogu··on Qualcomm Linux 2.0
No, I think Valve prioritizing an open platform independent of Microsoft aligns with their business goals.

They’re doing it in a manner that has broad benefits, but it’s definitely a win-win situation.

jogu··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
I guess you missed the part where they’re talking about HDR?

Yes, the monitor will work but if you want to take full advantage of the panels you enable HDR.

jogu··on How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?
"And here's the key bit...", etc. I agree there's a few signs that this was at least editorialized by AI. That being said, saying it's slop is a bit of a stretch.
jogu··on Kuru Toga Dive: $100 mechanical pencil
Not quite. The Kuru Toga mechanism that rotates the led every time you pick up the pencil is present on the cheaper models and is also present here.

The big feature on this pencil is an adjustable automatic lead extrusion mechanism on top of the rotation mechanism.

jogu··on Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger
Looking at the source I don't think that's true -- it's using GitHub specific APIs to read/write files. It's not standard git so any remote wouldn't work, and the mechanics are more akin to a key-value store than git really.

Not to say you couldn't add a generic git protocol to this, just that that's not being done here.

jogu··on Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger
I think it's pretty clear from the readme that this is a humorous proof of concept more so than anything someone should seriously use.
jogu··on Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster
Speed running is so bizarre to me, the rules seem so arbitrary. I struggle to see how any form of hardware level modification that results in a meaningful deviation in the behavior of the game would be allowed. At that point what's the difference between smudging your disk and using a GameShark, etc?

Similar thoughts on things like shiny hunting in the Pokemon community.

jogu··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
The Panasonic Toughbook range isn't even the same class of device as Macbooks. They're like twice the size and significantly heavier.
jogu··on MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production
The size, texture, precision, functionality (tapping, multi-finger), palm rejection are all just about flawless on Macbooks. Other manufacturers have good trackpads that are great at some of these things but never all of them.
jogu··on 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
I look forward to your modifications and advancements in the 3d printing community that are published under completely open licenses!
jogu··on 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
Permission to do what exactly?

Was there something before the OCL you could / were planning to do that the OCL now prohibits?

jogu··on 'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing
What’s wrong with the OCL if you’re a business owner?
jogu··on Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
Presumably the original dev that implemented the changes for this functionality that pulled the repo does not want to be associated so some level of squashing was required but yeah, the whole history was maybe a bit silly.
jogu··on MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
5 hours with LiFePo4 and 8 hours with Li-ion since the battery system in the Reform Next should support both chemistries you can choose battery longevity or longer runtime and more frequent battery replacements.
jogu··on MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
The MNT Reform classic discussed here was designed 6 years ago, but there’s nothing preventing an updated motherboard with better port selection from being created.

The MNT Reform Next that’s scheduled to be fulfilled this year has a much more modern port layout:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

jogu··on MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
They have a CM4 adapter module so maybe you could get a RISC-V module in there some how but I don’t know if anybody has actually done that or if it would be worth it at this point.
jogu··on MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
The trackpad in the MNT Reform Next is custom based on the Azotech IQS9150 IC from what I’ve seen in their firmware sources.

Not sure if that will be directly compatible with the MNT Reform classic discussed here though.

jogu··on MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
The keyboard uses low profile choc v1 mechanical switches. Aside from the split space bar this is about as close to a no compromise, standard layout as you can get I think.
jogu··on MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
MNT publishes everything: source code, schematics, complete BOMs, mechanical design files. You could produce one of their laptops, or any part of it, yourself through normal PCB suppliers like JLC and 3d print a case.

Reproducing what they have aside, you can also modify any aspect of it by remixing their designs. The most common example of this has been custom keyboard layouts (ergo, split, etc).

jogu··on MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
I read this as "never buy new electronics because someones old used one is less e-waste".

The motherboard is modular and the compute part of this is replaceable, it's sort of the whole point.

The modules are mostly compatible between all of their products: MNT Reform, MNT Pocket Reform that are available now and the future MNT Reform Next (a more streamlined laptop) and the MNT Station (mini desktop pc).

jogu··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
Onsen (hot springs) are very common and popular in Japan. Nowadays, they almost always have sauna as well. In Tokyo there's probably a sauna within ~15 minutes of just about anywhere.
jogu··on Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi
I don’t think anyone is suggesting getting actual phone lines, but rather more lines in a local network setting.
jogu··on IronGlass Brings Legendary Soviet Cinema Lenses to Mirrorless Cameras
If it was just a simple matter of "what was available" these lenses would be an interesting footnote in Photography history. But that's not the case, people still buy them for their unique properties 50 years later and the fact a company exists to re-house them more than proves their legendary status in my mind.
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