geerlingguy

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by geerlingguy 9d ago
It's surprising how often I can get an okay-ish GPS signal indoors... it seems to have a lot more to do with building materials than anything else. Multipath reflections means the location (and thus timing accuracy) wanders a lot, but
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by geerlingguy 9d ago
In the spirit of a 1990s time server is I also got Timelord + Tardis working (time service over AppleTalk, tested on a Mac SE/30, courtesy of netatalk) and tested multiple NTPv1, NTPv3, and NTPv4 clients through this (and soon an Xserv
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Measuring systematic PPS bias on the Raspberry Pi 5(satpulse.net)
2 points by geerlingguy 10d ago|0 comments
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PrusaSlicer 3.0 Preview – Built for the Future of 3D Printing(blog.prusa3d.com)
5 points by geerlingguy 15d ago|0 comments
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by geerlingguy 16d ago
The US has done tests with eLoran as well. The receivers are quite expensive and the signal isn't permanent yet, so it's more of a lab thing right now. Also experiments with BPS (Broadcast Positioning System) using high power TV t
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Ubiquiti patches three max severity security vulnerabilities(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by geerlingguy 21d ago|0 comments
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by geerlingguy 22d ago
I use both the base M4 Mac mini and an M4 MacBook Air for Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and Fusion, and while they're not as almost-always-perfectly-smooth as my Mac Studio, they're about 100x better than the experience I used to have
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by geerlingguy 22d ago
Somehow the RISC-V designs mostly seem to have more coherent PCIe implementations, meaning some devices are easier to get running without the arm64 quirks drivers have to work around. Drivers still need tweaking, most of the time, since mos
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SiFive's First Server Platform(chipsandcheese.com)
152 points by geerlingguy 23d ago|46 comments
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by geerlingguy 23d ago
I'm guessing Chick-Fil-A?
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by geerlingguy 24d ago
With some models, if you're not forcefully terse, probably 28k LOC of comments!
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Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig(raspberrypi.com)
4 points by geerlingguy 29d ago|1 comments
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by geerlingguy 29d ago
It's amazing how poor on-site search has gotten, while at the same time the capability to have better results and more relevancy has gone way up. I normally use Google and/or DuckDuckGo to search YouTube and Amazon, because if I
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Zero-Crossing Detector for Mains Frequency Monitoring(lectrobox.com)
1 points by geerlingguy 1mo ago|0 comments
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NASA 2026 Total Solar Eclipse Livestream [video](youtube.com)
2 points by geerlingguy 1mo ago|0 comments
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Fun with a Quadra 950 and a Whole Lot of RAM(lowendmac.com)
4 points by geerlingguy 1mo ago|0 comments
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
Fingers crossed some of the usual mini PC suspects pick it up as it rolls out. Though I think 4 or 8 GB is back on the menu, annoyingly. Maybe it'll get some of the mini PC vendors to stop shipping Windows 11 by default!
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
It's funny, too — in my testing with Asahi Linux, some benchmarks ran better on Linux than macOS on Apple Silicon!
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
I never said it wasn't clickbait. If you don't like it, either install DeArrow or subscribe to my blog, where I tone it down for the more technical audience. (Or block/ignore my content, no skin off my back!)
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
I've used a number of mini PCs and Arm SBCs with 8 GB of RAM. Most casual use (browsing, writing, media playback) is no problem, but using "creative" software (image editors, NLEs, DAWs, etc.) quickly gets annoying.
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
I had three YouTube titles, this one got about 2x the watch time as the other two, so I let YT pick it. For technical readers, I write my blog posts. I don't have to (I lose money hosting that thing and all it's mostly just free t
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
I run a large number of benchmarks; the Hackaday article of course focuses on the headline findings, but you can see the rest here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/111
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
Yeah, not sure why Dell has such a spread on US vs rest-of-world pricing here. I know some have mentioned the $699/$599 price could also change a bit in the US come November. The internal assembly and parts seem like they'd cost D
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
No, this laptop was loaned to me for a couple weeks (it's boxed up and ready to ship back now), and I fully disclose any and all sponsorship (this was not sponsored in any way); see my policies here: https://github.com/
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
Can you please post an issue on the repo? Long on my todo list has been trying to get the Mac tests more repeatable/consistent and optimized (always easier on Linux).
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
They still eat battery, but at least the midrange ones, not nearly as much as they used to.
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
With only two USB-C ports that means you get just headphones and power if you're not using a hub or USB dock.
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
These tests were done on the CPU cores, not on the GPU. In every test I ran the A18 chip blew past Intel's Core 5 on GPU performance. There were a series of other benchmarks too, but the Hackaday article only highlights HPL as that was
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
Yeah, the first step is they realize pushing clocks is not the most important thing; second step is to apply that to other chips they make too! I want to see more desktop and server chips getting closer to Arm efficiency.
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by geerlingguy 1mo ago
I run a number of other benchmarks for a better comparison (linked from my blog post: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/111 ). The Intel chip holds its own for multicore in less bursty workload

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