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I'm personally partial to increpare's bfxr (https://www.bfxr.net/)

You're not exactly going to be running many scans with a human corpse stuck in the MRI machine...

I bought a used kindle paperwhite for £15 last month, and spent about an hour to mod it (which really wasn't all that difficult; it just involved copying files).

I'd say that's pretty cheap.

I suspect the reason why there are not more new devices for the budget pricepoint is that the market is saturated. Unlike phones, there isn't really a compelling reason to upgrade regularly. My mother has used her kindle for years at this point, and probably will use it for years to come.

Eligibility: Based in the U.S.

_sigh_

Solar irradiance has been declining for the past three decades...

Works until they demand your passwords and threaten to label you a terrorist if you don't

Yeah, that's pretty bad business practice.

I have a few fuji cameras, and sadly their webcam software doesn't work for me, but for a cheap fix I bought a low-cost (~$10) HDMI USB capture card on AliExpress, and it works wonders.

Basically it handles downloading & configuration of games from some non-Steam providers (e.g. GOG, Epic), and adds them to Steam, so you can launch them like they are Steam games.

It's not quite as polished, but it works.

I 100% agree, I bought one to be able to play my library while my wife watches dramas on the TV, and I've been shocked as to how high the compatibility rate is these days.

Also, while the competing handhelds are often more powerful, the Deck's trackpads really are a game changer for some games (like Rimworld)

Imagine your job being a "tech reviewer" and not being able to fathom the clear (albeit comparatively small) market for a product like this

The one by Ben Eater?

Graffiti is illegal because it involves damaging property, not because of its textual / visual content...

It's more likely to cover the organizers legally.

I imagine no-one wants to be on the receiving end of "You are accused of actively encouraging Iranian / Russian / <insert other sanctioned state here> hackers to identify exploitable security vulnerabilities in appliances owned and operated by Americans; how do you plead?"

Even with this obfuscation, it is still more fair to its creators than most other platforms. It's just not quite the co-op structure their marketing makes it out to be, which is indeed disingenuous (IMO).

Same here; at this point I'll probably only upgrade when CAMM2 becomes more widespread

AMD was (is) tinkering with a translation layer for CUDA

From what I understand, they dropped the contract with the engineer who was working on it.

Fortunately, as part of the contract, said engineer stipulated that the project would become open source, so now it is, and is still being maintained by that engineer.

Raspberry Pi pulled a Henry Ford and boldly went with just one microcontroller... In return, Raspberry Pi ensured that everyone on the planet works with the same part. Compared to more traditional wide lineups, there is a disproportionate number of StackExchange questions, blog posts (including this one), experience, Github issues, libraries, and tools for the RP2040.

I'm not personally convinced. Most of the ESP32 series is cross-compatible (at least for the shared pinout counts).

I'd argue the brand recognition and marketing to hobbyists is more likely what brought the "community" around the RP2040.

Members of Congress & govt employees who can perform insider trading before the announcement with seemingly no repercussions.

Apparently yes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39360106#39360497

I'm a fan of the term "toy", in a similar lens as "executive toy"

and even if you do go for the paid version, it's much cheaper too

tiny personal website

I'd recommend just migrating to cloudflare pages or github pages; they're both free

This is a really great experience, but go in as blind as you can.

Is there a convenient way to print high quality keycaps, like they have in the example image?

Not a lawyer, but it's probably a bad idea to open-source something _after_ getting a C&D for it

That's absolutely not a global truth, nor should it be.

Sending via HTTP will incur bandwidth costs. Torrents massively reduce this cost in the long run by making it P2P.

Edit: maybe in this case it's a leak though

Thinkpad keyboards have been pretty bad for a few generations now. My old T470's keyboard flexed in the corners.

I think this is what separates good from bad PMs. I work with a good PM who gives engineers a bit of room for innovation, and importantly identifies how to productise that innovation.

Business to business; making a product that targets businesses rather than consumers