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I received a customer satisfaction survey in my E-Mail inbox from a company I had just ordered something from. It's not unusual that I am tempted to do these, as I've figured out over the years that if you're someone in a minority user demographic (for me, people using Firefox on Linux and not a fan of phone apps), then it's in your best interest to loudly let companies know you exist. The E-Mail was in German, which makes sense as it was sent to the E-Mail address I gave them for the account...| A Laptop For My Pillow
Full disclosure: I received a TOFU board free of charge from Oratek for this, and writing this blog post about the work was part of the deal. It all started with a peculiar bug report I received for my Plebian project; the CM4IO board image wasn't working quite right on the Oratek TOFU CM4 carrier board. USB and PCIe weren't working at all. Usually, this wouldn't be very surprising; device trees are board specific after all. However, as I looked into the TOFU board schematic, I noticed that i...| A Laptop For My Pillow
At the start of this year, I've finally done what I've long been meaning to do: I built myself a new desktop PC. To replace my over 10 year old Intel i7 4770k box, I needed something that properly reflected my current interests. The aim was no longer gaming, but software development. Thus, I bid adieu to my last Windows installation, and put together a system that satisfied my requirements. The Requirements So, what did my new PC have to do? Firstly, it needed lots of parallel CPU power, both...| A Laptop For My Pillow
With recent PR oopsies by Broadcom^W Raspberry Pi and the announcement of the RK3566-based PineTab 2 a lot of eyes will be on PINE64's RK3566-based products now. Since I happened to have worked on this ecosystem a bit, I thought it might be a good time to write a quick explainer of where we are, how work is being done, and why things may not be the right fit for you. Full disclosure: the author of this article has received free hardware from PINE64 in the past for the purpose of developing so...| A Laptop For My Pillow
Answering the question: Could it be possible that TLS contributes to global warming in any notable capacity?| A Laptop For My Pillow