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by vrinsd 21d ago
I agree with this sentiment. If someone wants to do a bunch of reverse engineering, maybe they could try to get full mainline support for older Qualcomm mobile phone/tablet SoCs and minimize/get rid of BLOBs? All the fun of rever
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by vrinsd 1mo ago
I agree with your sentiment ; very likely the Fairphone people are restricted by NDAs from the SoC vendor who are the ultimate cause for lack of proper mainline Linux support. The SoC vendors get Android working, get the drivers going, help
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by vrinsd 1mo ago
Honest question here -- for doing 3D parametric design, is the "programmatic" approach a good thing? If you compare doing a design in LuaCAD to something like Solidworks or ProE, can you get to the end result faster, and easier?
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by vrinsd 1mo ago
Not to negate your core points but almost all the HW engineers I've worked with who are experienced absolutely consider sourcing and availability in the decision making process. It was a reason years ago Maxim's ICs were almost al
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by vrinsd 1mo ago
No idea what you mean by "well built OS" when Android has so many corner cases and weird "hard coded work arounds" and crazy development process that its behavior is often unpredictable and downright irrational. And what
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by vrinsd 1mo ago
I think you are in the minority of people that feel Android is a well built "OS". Maybe from an end-user point of view it "does what you want" but its underlying architecture I think is pretty poor. I have spent the pas
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by vrinsd 1mo ago
Except Motorola shipped an Android phone with an x86 CPU -- RAZR i (2GHz Atom) in 2012.
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by vrinsd 2mo ago
I think IF they had hired embedded software engineers with 40 years of experience, those people would have delivered a UI that meets or exceeds all UI needs (even if it didn't look as visually appealing as it could). A 40-year embedde
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by vrinsd 3mo ago
Hi kens, Thanks so much for the information. I am familair with the voting logic (I've worked on systems that implemented the same thing, odd-number of processor cores and the majority wins). One question, were any "misbehaving&q
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by vrinsd 3mo ago
Sadly, I think Craig might have done MORE for society by simply improving Craig's List and removing/reducing the amount of spam and junk posts it allows. I can't claim the changes would be easy to implement, but if they made
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by vrinsd 6mo ago
Feel exactly the same way. All of the public money spent on going to the moon is really just a way to funnel $$ to a few sub-contractors the actual science value of going BACK to the moon is pretty low. It takes such a huge amount of people
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by vrinsd 6mo ago
1000% agree. Sadly, this view is considered antiquated and anti-technology by a younger generation of people who think what we see in sci-fi shows should be reality (good or bad). And if you don't get that vision then you're some
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by vrinsd 6mo ago
I used Sailfish OS and so did several of my family members for many years. The "vanilla" Linux OS aspect (besides using rpm) makes it trivial to set up things like dnsmasq-adblocking, firewall rules, etc. Unfortunately, the Sailf
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by vrinsd 9mo ago
Frankly, the "need" for custom silicon seems self-imposed, with the idea of appearing to be a technology company first rather than a car / vehicle company. Cruise automation was also for years working on custom silicon, I kne
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by vrinsd 9mo ago
This.
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by vrinsd 10mo ago
Wow, super hard disagree, comment here sounds like the typical arrogance hardware engineers face from people in software who've never really done the job or have some superficial experiences. I won't blindly state "software i
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by vrinsd 10mo ago
If you look at modern FPGAs they have prodigous amounts of on-chip memories (BRAMs and URAM in Xilinx speak). You can buy Xilinx FPGAs on PCIe cards that could easily handle THOUSANDS of RISC-V cores. Almost all FPGA dev boards include DDR
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by vrinsd 10mo ago
If you're open to technical feedback your last comment, I've worked on these kinds of systems, have architected and built things even far "weirder" and these products have shipped and out in the real world, in silicon, i
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by vrinsd 10mo ago
Author: Thanks for taking the time to reply. I read the write-up with a LOT of interest, this is really amazing work, there's not a lot of good options for auto-routing with open-source PCB tools (i.e. KiCad). I have also used the ot
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by vrinsd 11mo ago
I understand why someone might this this is a pay issue, but it's goes beyond that. Culturually, doing something "well"(quality oriented, mindful of end-users) vs. "got it done" (transaction, pragmatic way of lookin
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by vrinsd 11mo ago
Hi DannyW, I think it's super cool that you work at Canva and are taking the time to interact with your customer base. Maybe this isn't the right venue (I didn't see an e-mail address in your profile so I'm just asking h
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by vrinsd 11mo ago
This is really great work, but can you comment on whether or not any Google-based "safebrowsing", etc is still enabled in the code base? Have you thought about merging your efforts with ungoogled-chromium (Android)? There USED to
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by vrinsd 11mo ago
As a happy user of many KDE based programs (konsole, kate, dolphin, etc) it's great to see another KDE piece evangelized. But can someone state conclusively if Bluetooth-base connectivty in KDE Connect actually works in 2025? I looked
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by vrinsd 2y ago
Are you saying that Plasma Mobile runs on any device that is supported by libhybris? I was asking about Plasma Mobile ( https://plasma-mobile.org/get/ ) that the parent mentioned switching to and I wasn't aware th
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by vrinsd 2y ago
The Sailfish guys are actually the creators of libhybris. If you run SailfishOS you have to first have Android flashed onto the phone. They use the same kernel, camera drivers, GPU drivers, etc as the original OEM including the prorprietar
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by vrinsd 2y ago
I am not saying the gestures in Android and iOS (app switching, etc) are actually the value add, but in fact things like toggles for options, or a "=" where the options are available to turn on/off. Sailfish forces gestures
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by vrinsd 2y ago
Do you use Plasma on a phone or tablet? If phone, can you say which hardware platform and how "well" it works as an actual phone, making calls, texting, etc?
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by vrinsd 2y ago
I've used it for several years and the feedback from a user point of view is not positive. My sample size includes me and several members of my family who used Sony Xperia devices running SailfishOS for several years. The Sailfish guy
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by vrinsd 2y ago
Wow, this comment sounds like it's written by someone who's never interacted with "musicians" or thinks a musician is a person who goes on stage and plays the same song over and over. And further thinks that engineering
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by vrinsd 2y ago
Anyone who wants a genuinely detailed treatment of this subject should read Allan McDonald's book "True, Lies O-rings" *. I happened to have finished this a few weeks ago and it goes on my list of all "engineers should

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