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you mean quantized? it’s only got 16B active parameters so it can be pretty fast at decode.

and… how is it? i’m tempted to get one too but privacy concerns are holding me back. how hard is porting lineageOS to a new device? ha.

there's an export button at the bottom of the table which copies a CSV to your clipboard.

it's funny actually, i've been binging their videos the past few weeks, since i'm looking into buying a home in need of renovation, and was happy to see their logos as part of one of the default columns.

they claim also to be mainly motivated by the climate crisis and are even, now, developing an open source water heater, which... you don't often hear about in industries such as home appliances or heating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFBbArwAXS8

i'd love to install an air-to-water heatpump myself, but i'm untrained and i guess i'm feeling a bit of the dunning–kruger effect while learning from the heat geek videos.

github search is not available if you're not logged in to the site... works after login.

no, they're also forcing Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS, which was previously banned. other, third party iOS browsers still used the safari webkit engine.

> In addition, apps that use alternative browser engines — other than Apple’s WebKit — may negatively affect the user experience, including impacts to system performance and battery life.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-chang...

It designed to be consumer replaceable https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214013

i think they meant that it's an android tablet, with the app termux with some sort of chrooted environment inside:

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Debian

could it be "Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip"?

yup, 4 years https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/02/21/stmicro-stm32mp1-cor...

these care called a bed of nails

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_of_nails_tester

Which, it seems, is out of print and I guess because a lot of people want a complete set of this series, costs > 500USD to buy used?? Woah. I should get my hands on the others while they're still in print.

Excess dietary fat or do you mean obesity?

mitxela did a great video on this topic recently and wrote a plugin for kicad to make the regular geometric layouts more organic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euJgtLcWWyo

Allwinner? Maybe, but I highly doubt it. They're one of the worst offenders when it comes to releasing sources.[0]

[0] https://linux-sunxi.org/GPL_Violations

i think the issue there is that modern displays decode the signal at different rates, depending on their changing hardware (HDMI/display technologies). with old TVs, the signal was not really decoded, but projected directly onto the "glass". so i imagine it would still not be in sync unless you have two of the same TV.

it's running a low power nrf52. they can last a year on a coin cell battery, with adequate power optimisations. without an always on display, a week is possibly an underestimation. for example, see the amazfit bip, it has lasted me ~45 days which even has a (low power) always on display.

you can modify the behavior of the crown button to disable this, if i recall correctly. i think i just deactivated it - after one too many accidental presses.

try gadgetbridge, it's an OSS project that already does this for cheap fitness trackers and some watches.

https://gadgetbridge.org/

i hadn't heard of this one before. do you have a link with more info? where did you purchase from?

you can buy them on amazon uk for around £50

but isn't fully open[0]. it's a firmware mod than a from scratch build like lineage for android, unfortunately.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/akftmi/comment/ef5yh...

i have one called the "agptek rocker", it has basic rockbox support but a pretty leaky cheap lcd. i like that it has bluetooth, but i don't believe it's supported yet in rockbox. it's available under various other names but i believe it can be had from about 50usd.

it's quite interesting with more modern rockbox supported pmps, rockbox is run as an SDL program stuck into the modified linux firmware. this device is moderately powerful with a 1GHz MIPS ingenic x1000 CPU. fun to tinker with.

fiio has some nice devices (some with RB support, e.g. the M3K), too. but i wish they had bluetooth. i guess it's not cool with audiophiles so intentionally excluded.

one potential motivation i would personally consider is to support her work. her style feels somewhat refreshing for the content she delivers.

diversity in the approach of tech teaching, i believe, can only be a good thing.

i also think that the alternative method she imploys, with cartoons and colloquial language, helps engage some people who find traditional teaching formats unengaging.

i know, it's what i use daily :) i'm fairly confident they have no builds that are "blobless" though - part of the build process is to extract proprietary code blobs from manufacturer images which are not open source, see [0]

[0] https://wiki.lineageos.org/proprietary_blobs.html

ah right. the point still stands, though. i was also under the impression that many of the device drivers that ship with with modern android phones are closed source. see the step in building lineage "Extract proprietary blobs"[0]

[0] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/payton/build#extract-prop...

wow. even the drivers? say, for the radio?

nah, it's MIT licenced. they're rebuilding, while redesigning, linux - without GPL. i think it's in a way that makes driver development less expensive for hardware manufactuters. stable driver apis mean a hardware manufacturers can care less about maintaining them while the kernel can still update without worrying as much about breaking drivers.

it doesn't really matter if it's currently in secretive development, or not - the result will be that fewer people have access to the code their phone/other device is actually running.

in essence: there's still cause for concern.

i don't like that these devices don't use any sort of graphics accelerators though. that seems to be the most "fun" part of programming the retro architectures these things are inspired by. it's a pity there isn't any market for such chips anymore. i guess an FPGA is an option.

I think you mean RISC-V (V being the Roman numeral for 5).

The MIPS ISA is now also open source, as of Q1 2019[0].

[0] https://www.mips.com/mipsopen/