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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:09PM (#50347101)
It is still at a forward P/E of 31, on par with AMD's 32 and far above Nvidia's 13.
Re:Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:16AM (#50273998)
Products like BananaPi M4 Zero or OrangePi Zero 2W/3W have offered much more competitive hardware in the same form factor for quite a while (if you didn't particularly care for the RaspberryPi "ecosystem"). Let's see if 3W can actually compete - on paper it should be a bit faster than Allwinner H618 and still far behind A733.
That's the e-ink monopoly for you. Though you could probably use a slightly smaller b&w eink display with a second hand raspberry 4 to shave a lot from that number.
Re:Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader puts Silicon Valley to shame on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:06AM (#49597967)
It's great on public transport too.
Re:M5Stack Launches PaperMono on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:46AM (#49507197)
As far as I can tell, firmware updates are only via WiFi.
Re:Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable on Monday August 31, 2026 @04:32AM (#49507119)
"It's possible to just connect two computers together with Ethernet" - on the front page of hackernews. Incredible. Ethernet over USB4 interdomain protocol at least had some novelty, but this...
Re:M5Stack Launches PaperMono on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:35AM (#49475087)
Just to point out the usb-c on the original x4 is for charging only.
Re:Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B) on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:43AM (#49436032)
What sort of pp/tg speed do you get on a Strix Halo?
Or you could get a $50 smartband and have so much more functionality and still recharge only once a week or two.
Re:GrapheneOS in 2027 available on high-end Motorola phones on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:02AM (#49361068)
App support, stable ABI, uniform UI/UX, hardware vendor cooperation...
Re:The next chapter of our AI momentum on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:24AM (#49193172)
Tribalism is human nature, for better or (usually) worse.
Re:HMD Touch 4G on Sunday July 19, 2026 @02:37PM (#48970616)
The little print at the end says "Currently only available in India."

Reminds me a bit of HMD's KaiOS feature phones but this is apparently Android?

Have you tried putting the KV cache on the GPU and running inference from RAM? From what I gather, prompt processing is particularly painful using RAM alone.
Have you tried with a single CPU to get rid of the NUMA penalty? I understand this likely means halving the memory but I am interested in how much of a difference it makes
Re:Show HN:Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:56AM (#48856613)
Xeon Scalable in general seems like a good idea due to 6-channel (relatively) inexpensive RDIMM memory, but I've been reading that NUMA kills inference performance. Anyone got experience with multi-socket systems? IIRC even within the socket these cpus are divided into sub-numa nodes.
I am still using their Powerline adapters and FWIW they have been very reliable.
Re:The Disappearance of Japan's Animators on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:35AM (#48674081)
Akane Banashi was probably the best directed show this season.
People consistently perceive louder music as better quality. That's why volume matching is critical in any audio equipment testing.
Re:Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:15AM (#48353967)
Starlite Mk IV is my favourite "netbook" successor. 0.9 kg, 11.6 1080p IPS display and Linux-first, with coreboot. Unfortunately it is a couple years old by now and you can feel that (Intel N5030 and 8GB of RAM). Sadly the company changed the form factor of Mk V to a detachable but if you can live with that it's also an option.
A lot of people picked up building mechanical keyboards as a hobby during COVID. It probably wouldn't have the same impact today.
Re:I hate soldering existentially on Friday May 15, 2026 @02:37AM (#48145275)
I didn't, thanks for the heads-up!
Re:I hate soldering existentially on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:06AM (#48107695)
Few new ICs are made available in DIP format. So you basically have to do SMT at some point.
Re:StarFighter 16-Inch on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @02:47PM (#48040017)
I suppose that depends on how recent is what you consider recent. I'd have hoped with the coreboot upstreaming effort they would keep official releases coming a bit longer.

You can see the last release for Starlite Mk IV is from 2024: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/search?value=starlite

These seem to be the SKUs they are building roms for: https://github.com/StarLabsLtd/firmware/tree/capsules/roms

Re:StarFighter 16-Inch on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @09:34AM (#48036062)
Their Horizon model is probably closer to a Mk IV successor than Mk V. I would consider it as an upgrade path.
Re:StarFighter 16-Inch on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:15AM (#48033253)
I've learned to love numpad when I spent some time working in France. On AZERTY layouts you need to press SHIFT for each regular number.
Re:StarFighter 16-Inch on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:11AM (#48033237)
StarLabs predates Framework by a couple years. Framework just does advertising to geeks better.
Re:StarFighter 16-Inch on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:03AM (#48033187)
FWIW I have had a StarLite Mk IV for three years now and haven't run into a single issue with it (except maybe the speakers being quite poor).

Unfortunately the company stopped releasing firmware updates for it soon after they launched Mk V. I don't know if it can be still built from source for the older devices.

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