Standardized firmware isn’t something that’s specified in the ISA, is it? It’s just shitty phone manufacturers.
Asus had some x86 phones a few years back. I haven’t dug into them, but I doubt they had a full bios/efi.
pine64 arm devices have u-boot, while a bootloader does fullfil a subset of the uefi spec.
Integrated GPU is not a dirty word anymore.
AMD’s system-on-a-chips with RDNA2/3 pack almost the same punch as the discrete cards with the same architecture. See steamdeck as the prime example, but there’s quite a few boards, boxes and laptops with the same.
My desktop, laptop and homelab all synd my important stuff over syncthing. They all do btrfs snapshots three months back in case an oopsie would propagate.
The homelab additionally fetches deduplicated snapshots of my VPS weekly, before syncing all of the above to an encrypted hetzner storage for those burning-down-the-house events.
I need to feel productive. Be it a programming project or woodworking. Just creating something new instead of maintenance like oil changes and mowing the lawn. Creating something new.
Also, take a walk in the forest. Get out on the water. Both are great therapy to disconnect from the mental todo-list of things going on around the house.
My library has a banned book clubs for teenagers.
Books don’t get banned in my country, but they read and discuss books that are banned in other countries.
Also, you can check out a kill-a-watt to monitor your electricity consumption.
He’s got so much going on that half the paper would be about him if they kept covering everything between the classified documents, election interference, hush money, Georgia, tax fraud, Carroll defamation…
instead of healthcare
Where in the world are you? In my part my tax money goes far enough to pay for both. And free university studies so that no one has to take loans.
detectives believed he had a “great hatred of women, specially of the prostitute class, and had strong homicidal tendencies”.
No shit, Sherlock.
I’ve heard of it in an old 60 minutes segment, but seems this commenter knows the technical details.
Veritasium had an episode on even more haunting exploits in the phone networks a couple of weeks back. Always prefer 2FA apps over SMS.
The can spoof any number. They usually go with something local (to you) to increase the odds of you picking up.
Calling back will get you Bob on the other side of town who has no idea what missed call you’re talking about.
I once bought beer with my friends debit card. This was back when you’d sign the receipt instead of doing NFC or entering your pin code. I signed it “Jesus Kristus”.
Bartenders don’t care.
Border checks are an exception between Schengen countries.
Airlines usually require valid id/pass in their terms. Usually only enforced to boot a few people off the plane when they’re overbooked.
WebRTC isn’t necessarily a bad specification.
But that history shows how they draft a specification, implement a service around it at a fast pace (in this case even with a takeover), and many years later the draft turns into a än official specification.
Other browsers have no choice but to fall in line behind the draft if they want to stay relevant. And they did.
IE did the same shit with their marquee-tag back in the day. Last I checked it still works on Firefox. (It’s still not in any w3c specification)
I was walking on the sidewalk at a traffic-lighted intersection when I heard a loud bang.
I turn around to see a Honda had rear-ended a Volvo 240 that had stopped at a red light. The front of the Honda looked like a piece of crumpled up paper wrapped up nicely on the 240’s tow bar. The 240 was unscathed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC#History
I don’t think I could summarise it better than that Wikipedia section.
He also planned to have BcacheFS merged to mainline in 2018. Finally got it merged in 2023 (released in 2024).
Development will likely slow down a bit when things require more review, discussion and scrutiny now that it’s mainlined.
Let me quote the Wikipedia page.
Bcachefs describes itself as “working and stable, with a small community of users”. When discussing Linux 6.9-rc3 on April 7, 2024, Linus Torvalds touched on the stability of bcachefs, saying “if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you”, and in August of 2024 that “nobody sane uses bcachefs and expects it to be stable”.
It’s been being for a long time. It finally got merged to mainline in Linux 6.7. Sounds like they started a lot of renovations after that. It’s still a bit too much in motion for me to consider it.
Performance and features look promising. I’ll revisit in 2030 if things have calmed down and they still have maintainers.
I’ve been running btrfs for 14 years. It has similar features and a proven track record. It doesn’t move as fast. That’s a good thing for a filesystem.
I bought one years ago. Maybe 2018? I think it’s a kindle touch 8th gen, ad-supported. Cost me ~60€, ad-supported. It got jailbroken and KOReader installed. It has stayed offline since, so those ads have long since expired.
It gets the job done. I’ve never been in the amazon e-book ecosystem, and I don’t want to be licensing my books at their mercy.