Category: Hardware / Reviews

the future of (power efficient and mobile) gaming – SmartPhone as DesktopPC? – the future are RISC(V) (ARM) CPUs – RK3588S is 3.04x in single-core and 3.65x in multi-core faster than Raspberry 4 (geekbench.com)
21.02.2023

mekotronicsplz note: “the-best-technology-does-nothing-without-a-good-human-culture” Yes! Read that correctly, modern SmartPhones are actually full blown computers, so why not use them as such? Now that they have enough (RISC) based computational power that they can replace Desktop and Notebooks, problem: they can […]

AMD Ryzen 5600G + Gigabyte Aorus B550 + 2x NVMe Kingston SA2000M81000G + RAID0 (AMD RAIDXpert2) worth it? does it work with GNU Linux? 8k Youtube Benchmark passed on GNU Linux Debian 11 MATE – enable enable SVM Mode in UEFI BIOS to enable KVM Virtualization support
17.12.2022

hardware used: AMD Ryzen 5600G Gigabyte Aorus B550 Elite AX v1 (Rev 1.1) 2x NVMe Kingston SA2000M81000G those are DATACENTER capable NVMes! (at a pretty nice price!) energy meassurements: meassured wattage when PC was idle (doing nothing): GNU Linux Debian […]

Power Efficient Gaming – is this possible? YES IT IS! – Horizon Zero Dawn on AMD Ryzen 5600G (VEGA Cezanne OnBoard GPU) with as little as 86W! – GNU Linux using half the power of Windows 10 when Idle! #wtf? – enable enable SVM Mode in UEFI BIOS to enable KVM Virtualization support
17.12.2022

Even managed to run this system off solar power in spring, summer and autumn, not winter X-D Of course RISC(V/ARM) based (mobile) gaming systems would be those that use the least amount of power per frame 😀 But it seems […]

GNU Linux Debian 11 – How to setup Brother QL 600 LabelPrinter
13.07.2022

it’s a two part process: 1. install the drivers (thanks all involved great work 🙂 su – root apt update apt install printer-driver-ptouch 2. install the printer via cups web browser interface http://localhost:631/ or: https://localhost:631/ -> Administration -> Add Printer […]

How BOSCH quality went away with the jobs – Angle Grinder Flex PWS 9-125 CE Products – not spinning properly (not working) how to fix it – clearly suffering from lack of Quality Made in Whatever – 3 603 C99 A01
06.04.2022

update: there is indeed a small screw missing from the angle grinder: Ersatzteilinformation: part detailed information: 1603300016 Sachnummer:  1603300016 Beschreibung: Sechskantmutter DIN-Text:  M7, SW10 Preis * 1,04  €* Preisgruppe 11 * Alle Preise inkl. Mehrwertsteuer zzgl. Versandkosten Always say something […]

camera hardware review – photography with the Samsung S21 Ultra (SM-G998B) example sample test images fotos photography and sample 8k video – can smart phone cameras compete with the “big” ones with big lenses? – more sample pictures of flowers and moon shots
24.01.2022

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