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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

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.

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.

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.

I didn't, thanks for the heads-up!

Few new ICs are made available in DIP format. So you basically have to do SMT at some point.

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

Their Horizon model is probably closer to a Mk IV successor than Mk V. I would consider it as an upgrade path.

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.

StarLabs predates Framework by a couple years. Framework just does advertising to geeks better.

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.

You might still get the most out of it when the AMOC collapses.

Technically, you can turn off the sun with a nuclear winter. But in that case your main problem would be starvation anyway.

"But if we don't engineer addiction, China will beat us to it! It's a national interest!"

Thanks, I'll just keep using XMPP MUCs like a caveman I am.

HSALF backwards reads FLASH but Sir68k is just a very diligent guy.

Crop futures are already a thing. Potatoes are traded on EEX for example: https://www.eex.com/en/markets/agriculturals/potatoes

I'm not a Mac user, but ever since Google changed their icons a couple years back I still struggle to tell apart Maps/Photos/Drive etc at a glance.

You can easily tell UX design roles are obsolete by the recent threads about Tahoe and W11. There is going to be whiplash.

Is NanoVNA still the best entry-level tool in 2026?

I have my own travel story involving DB. I had a ticket for a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt am Main to Warsaw. When I tried to check-in online a day before the flight it told me I had to do it at the airport. I fly a bit, so I knew what that meant - they overbooked the flight. The next day I got my "no aircraft entry guaranteed" boarding card of shame at the airport and learned at the gate that they overbooked the plane by three persons! After explaining my EU passenger rights, I got them to confirm my €250 compensation and since I was in an adventurous mood headed for the Frankfurt Flughafen Fernbahnhof train station.

The manned DB Travelcenter was still open so I walked in and asked for an international ticket to Warsaw. The gentleman (who spoke fluent English) typed a bit on the computer and told me he cannot sell a ticket for the Berlin-Warsaw leg of the journey due to a "system error on the Polish side". I knew that probably meant the Berlin-Warsaw-Express is at full capacity again and they don't sell tickets with no seat indicated for that route. I asked for a ticket to Berlin instead (€207, 2nd class) and went for a hamburger - still had about an hour until the train.

The train was initially supposed to arrive delayed 5 minutes but that was soon to change. The delay kept ticking up to 20 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour (around this time the DB travelcenter closed for the night) then two hours then cancelled altogether. I wasn't sure if my ticket is valid for the next train (the DB website was a bit vague about that) so I called my friend in Hamburg who confirmed I was good to jump onto the next train which would arrive on schedule in another three hours. I tried getting a Capri-Sun from a vending machine but it got stuck and wouldn't fall out. So I sat at the empty station with noting but rats as company until 3AM when the next Berlin-bound train arrived on time. In Berlin I got out at Sudkreutz and jumped onto a FlixBus to Poznań (€22) and stayed the night over at my friend's place (I badly needed a shower at that point) before taking a train to Warsaw the next day (€16, 2nd class).

Now, I technically did eventually use my Frankfurt-Berlin ticket but I was quite annoyed at DB so I applied for a reimbursement due to a cancelled train, which was granted in full. I also applied for reimbursement of the plane ticket from Lufthansa which was also granted. With the additional €250 compensation for denied boarding I actually made money on that little adventure but I probably wouldn't do that again. Gotta check in earlier from now on.

I wish AVR DU series had any sort of open source support, we could finally move on from 32U4.

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/microcontrollers/8-...

I think people have a wrong idea of what a modern atomic clock looks like. These are readily available commercially, Microchip for example will happily sell you hydrogen, cesium or rubidium atomic clocks. Hydrogen masers are rather unwieldy, but you can get a rubidium clock in a 1U format and cesium ones are not much bigger. I think their cesium freq standards are formerly a HP business they acquired.

Example: https://www.microchip.com/en-us/products/clock-and-timing/co...

that's just unchecked neurotoxoplasmosis

I guess you could say that MiniDisc was the original HAMR format.