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One fascinating example is one owner that replaced the DC barrel jack with a USB-C port, so they could utilize USB-PD for external power.

Oddly enough that's also an example for bad design in that notebook: The barrel jack is soldered in. With a module that is plugged into the board that'd be significantly easier to replace - and also provide strain relief for power jack abuse. All my old thinkpads were trivial to move to USB-C PD because they use a separate power jack with attached cable.

The transparent bottom also isn't very functional - it is pretty annoying to remove and put back, due to the large amount of screws required. For a notebook designed for tinkering I'd have wanted some kind of quick release for that. Also annoying is the lack of USB ports on the board - there's enough space to integrate a USB hub, but just doing that on the board and providing extra ports would've been way more sensible.

The CPU module also is a bit of a mixed bag - it pretty much is designed for the first module they developed, and later modules don't have full support for the existing ports. I was expecting that, though - many projects trying to offer that kind of modular upgrade path run into that sooner or later, and for that kind of small project with all its teething problems 'sooner' was to be expected. It still is very interesting for some prototyping needs - but that's mostly companies or very dedicated hackers, not the average linux user.

RDS and related protocols like TMC have specifications for both FM and AM transmitters. Those are used to stop playback if an urgent message comes. I'm assuming you have AM stations with such signals in the US (I don't think we have in the EU) - otherwise the AM radio mandate would indeed be stupid.

edit: did some digging (it's been almost 30 years since I cared about that stuff) - seems the US was pretty late to the party for radio data channels, and side channels for AM (which wasn't of that much interest here due to the FM heavy radio landscape in Europe) only was discussed in the early 90s for the US specific variants. I couldn't find any details if that actually ever got implemented. Given that most documentation available on that topic is heavily focusing on EU I'd guess it never got that much use in the US.

Ability for AM radios to interrupt other playback for announcements has been around at least since the 90s. Back then it was commonly used to pause cassette playback when traffic announcements were made.

This just requires for the device to monitor radio when on, and to be on - and with how integrated it is in modern days cars functionality I'd say the chance for them to be on is higher than it was in the 90s. So having that functionality is a pretty good way to reach a lot of car drivers.

Funny timing, I'm currently going through a stack of Sun hardware in my garage to decide what to keep, and for what I'll try to find a good home (or eventually dispose of it).

Admittedly I'm just toying around for entertainment purposes - but I didn't really have any problems of getting anything I wanted to try out with rocm support. Bigger annoyance was different projects targetting specific distributions or specific software versions (mostly ancient python), but as I'm doing everything in containers anyway that also was manageable.

For AI and compute… They’re far behind. CUDA just wins. I hope a joint standard will be coming up soon, but until then Nvidia wins

I got a W6800 recently. I know a nvidia model of the same generation would be faster for AI - but that thing is fast enough to run stable diffusion variants with high resolution pictures locally without getting too annoyed.

Leberwurstersatz hab ich bisher noch nichts gefunden - weder fuer aufs Brot, noch die Grobe fuer Schlachtplatte. Fuer letzteres braeuchte man auch noch Blutwurstersatz. Rest der Liste stimmt aber.

No, most companies also have mostly incompetent engineers.

Roku always was a company with great engineers and shitty money grabbing management. The new user creation always requested data not necessary for basic operation.

I find this situation rather entertaining. It shows yet again how important it is to educate people on the basics of how LLM work, including how they are being executed - I'm guessing with just a tiny bit more knowledge it'd also have been obvious nonsense to you.

Gut dass das kommt, aber leider zu spaet. Ich denke mit konsequenter Anwendung der existierenden Gesetzgebung gegen Scheinselbstaendigkeit haette man da auch schon viel machen koennen - jetzt ist viel zerstoert das wohl auch nicht mehr zurueckkommt. Hier gibts glaub ich nur noch ein einziges Restaurant das an eigenen Fahrern (mit gestellten Fahrzeugen) festgehalten hat.

Bei den anderen wird das jetzt halt vermutlich weiterhin teurer werden - was auf die Kunden umgelegt wird. Umstellung von eigenen Fahrern zu Lieferdiensten hat bei praktisch allen Restaurants zur Einfuehrung von Liefergebuehren ueber die Plattform gefuehrt - und Bedingungen fuer die Fahrer sind trotzdem schlechter als vorher.

Ist man in anderen EU-Staaten normalerweise auch, nur fuer insgesamt billiger. Vergleiche schauen leider haeufig nur einen Teil der Abgaben an (oft nur Steuern): Ich zahle hier in Finnland zwar mehr Steuern, aber dafuer ist da mehr drin das in Deutschland noch separat abgerechnet werden wuerde. Insgesamt komme ich hier besser weg als in Deutschland.