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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:43AM (#50272021)
Are they as well supported as the RPi? I heard software support was bad compared to the Raspberry Pis
I'm confused, what do you mean? It seems to be in the git repo as it should be? https://github.com/szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font/tree/main/fon...
Re:Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:23AM (#49359499)
Have you seen any of the fixes people talked about in that thread? Apparently some fixed it, hopefully something works for you https://community.frame.work/t/framework-400mhz-issue/83910/
Re:Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:15AM (#48931661)
I guess Oura hasn't heard the feedback about outsourcing their support/engineers yet! Enjoy knowing you made their app better, I'm sure with time it won't work anymore, sadly
Re:French parliament approves landmark assisted-dying bill on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:13AM (#48931645)
I'm surprised you said he couldn't afford Switzerland, I thought they weren't supposed to make money off help with dying? Are they secretly making money then, or is there paperwork that's expensive to file?
Re:Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:10AM (#48931629)
If you want to have a browser with a different engine you need a whole different developer account org, you need to maintain two different code bases and you need to very specifically set everything up to pass all of Apple's tests, which are incredibly onerous in time and work, so it doesn't make sense for Mozilla to do so for such a small market share (hell Google doesn't either, and they're a lot bigger than them)
Re:Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't on Thursday July 16, 2026 @03:28AM (#48931361)
It's actually the importer's info from the Chinese manufacturer, not the OP, since it's the switch packaging (it'd be inside the original package they'd have received from Aliexpress)
Re:Bluesky Trademarks ATProto on Thursday July 16, 2026 @02:33AM (#48931020)
How do you mean? As in you can run different instances or as in it's a false open protocol?
Re:Fable 5 Is Back on Thursday July 02, 2026 @01:16PM (#48764503)
Sorry this is a very bad analogy, nuclear power isn't the same as a LLM, and definitely not as dangerous either. This is ridiculous.
Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe on Monday June 15, 2026 @03:10AM (#48537635)
I remember seeing stories about Adobe not being able to, or not wanting to, write a good energy efficient flash renderer for the iPhone, thus being another reason not to support it for Jobs (Adobe being of the mind that "Flash is so big, they'll have to support it" and Jobs proving otherwise)
Honestly there's lots of details so I can see why it would need to be 44 minutes, and it's still a video that also has to explain complexe schemes with multiple companies too
That's true, it sucks only the Go got unlocked, I hope they let the older Quests do so too in the future, especially since I think the Q2 is going to be deprecated soon-ish too, that'd certainly be nice
Re:Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video] on Thursday June 04, 2026 @09:39PM (#48406970)
Interesting, does that mean we might get root support on the old unsupported Quest devices too? The Q1 is already discontinued and no more updates yet still locked down, and they did something similar for the Ofulus go, providing a rooted boot image for it

Next would be recovery tools too, so they're not paperweights

Re:Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @06:33AM (#48277754)
Sorry but you're wrong, Flatpak has been around for longer than that, specifically at least 2014 and was known as xdg-app before https://github.com/alexlarsson/xdg-app/commit/a640cd365bd217...

And if you look at the history page of Flatpak, you'll see that the project has been in development in some form or another for roughly 20 years https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/wiki/Flatpak's-History

Re:Vivaldi 8.0 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:02AM (#48220196)
Do you have examples of websites that don't work? Both because I'm curious and also so the devs can look into it?
I'd like to know how these "customers" even get into contact with actual people or engineers at MS, because this seems completely impossible now

Has Meta ever provided Qualcomm EDL files for recovery?

I thought I'd ask here, considering people here might be more knowledgeable about it. Quest VR headsets for example are notoriously lacking in recovery options. They also have an EDL mode, specifically 9008, baked in the Qualcomm SoC, but as you need a specific "Firehose" file to set it up, and Meta never provided it, many people who end up with botched updates or issues with their headsets,...

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Re:Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:40AM (#48046564)
Someone already said it, but what about TRMNL? https://trmnl.com/
Re:I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @06:09AM (#48020366)
I agree but HN always seemed more conservative or at least less queer than the "usual", personally I'd have assumed "hilarious" was meant more in a sardonic way, a reverse of the usual than literally hilarious
I can't seem to find it, is there something you have to do to see it?
Recreation of the actual computer alarms and terminals used at the Chernobyl power plant, with explanations of each lights and panels
Re:X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior" on Monday April 13, 2026 @05:42AM (#47749780)
Isn't that just Mastodon? Why would I use Nostr instead?
Re:FairPhone: Industry First Nature Report on Thursday March 26, 2026 @06:02PM (#47536394)
I really wish they had more community involvement, they barely seem to respond to people in the forums, and their headphones aren't open software-wise with no real feedback or way to even ask them things about them
I'm confused, you weren't talking about what the average user would do, just about what it can? Asahi Linux is pretty good, not sure why that'd be a real issue?
RAM has no bearing on repairability? And yes, sure stuff is soldered to the motherboard, but everything is basically modular outside of it, you can replace every big part pretty easily, and no glue, even for the battery
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Thursday March 05, 2026 @08:09AM (#47261175)
The storage is fast enough to not be too much of an issue, and the basics would be mostly a web browser, a lot of things can be done with only it, and if you need to do more than web browser, text editors, you probably should want more than the Neo in the first place

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