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Comment · 1 month ago
USB-C actually has pins dedicated to application/debug use (SBU1 and SBU2). "SBU1 and SBU2: these are low-speed lines used only for Alternate Mode and accessory mode. For example, with DisplayPort, AUX+ and AUX– transmit over the SBU lines. For audio adapter accessory mode, these lines are used for the microphone input and analog GND."
Comment · 2 months ago
I first encountered Pascal (probably Turbo Pascal) on our Amstrad CPC 464, which being bought as used item came with lots of software floppies including some CPM stuff. Lacking a manual I never really used it though. I do remember it had a really barebones textmode-only editor. :)
Comment · 5 months ago
How do you distinguish between input (Keyboard/USB) and output (Browser/Graphics stack) delays in this test?
Comment · 5 months ago
> No BSP, no kernel source, no vendor documentation — just a DTB extracted from the stock Android firmware and rebuilt from there.

Judging from the build.sh, it looks like this is just using unmodified upstream u-boot and tools from the rockchip-linux repository, so "from scratch" is really just analyzing the DTB to see what drivers need to be loaded?

Comment · 6 months ago
> The TL-SG108 uses a 4Mbit (512KiB) SPI flash chip from Cfeon, which is too small to contain any assets for a web management interface

The https://github.com/logicog/RTLPlayground alternative firmware for RTL8372/RTL8373 based 2.5GBit Switches does fit into 512KiB, including web management interface.

Comment · 1 year ago
IIRC ReactOs forbids you from contributing if you had access to the windows source code in some way shape or form.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've been mounting my 3.5" hard drives on those "fad" rubber band 5.25" drive bay adapters for decades and have not noticed any increased failure rate at all. Sure, seek time may be worse, but the reduced noise has been worth it for me.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not OP, but I installed a "Balcony solar" 1.4kWp panels 2.4kWh battery system on my parents garage. The only subsidy was the tax free purchase of the components (we did file for an additional tax break with the city, but they had already run out of funds for that because it is so popular). You also save a lot of money on installation costs.

Cost breakdown:

- 400 EUR 2.4kWh 48V battery

- 320 EUR 4x 360W solar panels

- 200 EUR 800W microinverter

- ~200 EUR for helping hands when getting the panels onto the flat roof

- 160 EUR flat roof mounting equipment

- 153 EUR solar cable, connectors and crimping tool

- 115 EUR MPPT charge controller and cables

- 95 EUR electrics (e.g. fuses, dc/dc converter for OpenDTU)

- 50 EUR other assorted costs

So about 1693 EUR in total.

Total yield after 1.3 years: 1715 kWh (including power fed back into the grid)

Of that, discharged from battery: 488 kWh (battery already paid back ~146 EUR)

At the current energy costs, 1715 kWh would be ~514 EUR imported from grid

Comment · 1 year ago
> you are recommended to get the shingles vaccine instead of the chickenpox vaccine since the way the disease presents and how the body reacts to it changes with age (technically shingles can happen at any age but generally herpes zoster presents as shingles instead of chickenpox the older you get).

If the underlying virus is the same, what is different between the vaccines? How it presents shouldn't matter as much?

Comment · 1 year ago
It does say "Certain cough medicines and illicit hallucinogenic substances are also known to trigger it"
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I have the ST one (X-NUCLEO-LPM01A), but its range is actually not enough for something like an ESP32, it goes into "overload" as the max current is 50mA for dynamic (100kHz bandwith) and 200mA for "static" measurements.

Looks like the PPKII can do up to 1A.

Comment · 1 year ago
The partition table listing from the microSD card shown in the video (before installing a custom u-boot/Linux) shows partitions marked as the Linux partition type at least.
Comment · 1 year ago
The amount of power you can dump for balancing is just a fraction of the charge/discharge power (because it only needs to offset differences in self-discharge rate). So you still need a proper dummy load when you want to dump more.

Similarly, the heatsinking capacity of the battery is designed for charging/discharging losses (say 5% of charge/discharge power).

Comment · 1 year ago
> Since there's no point in generating keys for a device which will not be used in Japan, non-Japan SKUs don't have Osaifu-Keitai functionality. So even if you rooted your phone and had full access to the secure element, if your phone's secure element doesn't have the key, you can't use it as an IC card.

At least in some cases it is sufficient to change the phone SKU id (which requires temporary rooting) to the Japan SKU id to unlock the Osaifu-Keitai functionality on a non-Japan phone. I'm not sure if this means that the secure element had the necessary keys provisioned all along, or just that the Osaifu-Keitai app then provisions it on first use.

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