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WARNING! UNTESTED! dwaves has not (YET) been given a free sample to review this SOC, armbian is supporting it, which is good: https://blog.armbian.com/friendlyelecs-nanopc-t6-plus-the-flagship-edge-computing-powerhouse-and-media-station/?ref=news-from-armbian-newsletter (big question is: will BOTH LAN interfaces work reliably with ARMBIAN? because there seems to be some […]
Warning! FUN but LOADS of inter human embarrassments X-D SOME STATEMENTS COULD TRAUMATIZE USERS AND DEVELOPERS X-D thanks Linus (Sebastian) Tech Tips (LTT) for bringing this Kernel nerd Linus Torvalds (LT) from his mint room of mental healthcare to youtube […]
yes and no. btw very creative users use a USV as DC-to-AC-converter or charge batteries (2x12V = 24V system voltage) with solar, it seems to work even without batteries installed in the APC USV for example to power a lower […]
HOLY COWS! (MULTIPLE!) when was the last time, someone build a FULLY FUNCTIONAL COMPUTER INSIDE A GAME??? it’s called “RedStone” CPU because it’s largely build from in-game stones that are glowing red they are basically used like a wire (to […]
the USB cable coming with this cost effective unit is VERY SHORT and NOT WELL SHIELDED had an older adapter of the same brand without any problems doing backups on FRONT USB copy oeprations would stall and even keyboard and […]
WARNING! WORDPRESS DISPLAYS ONE-LINER-COMMANDS IN MULTIPLE LINES MAKE SURE TO ALWAYS COPY THE WHOLE LINE! based on https://anchored.host/articles/how-to-turn-a-debian-machine-into-a-router hardware requirements: have at least 2x network interfaces LAN (internal network shielded from WAN) WAN (this is the network that connects to […]
THERE ARE SERIOUS SOFTWARE (OR OTHER) PROBLEMS WITH THE 2nd NETWORK INTERFACE (NIC) update! unfortunately someone screwed up: INSTALL THE BELOW Armbian.img AND DO NOT UPDATE or 2nd nic could stop working DUAL LAN alternatives in 2025 ?: https://radxa.com/products/rock5/5itx/ https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Orange+Pi+5+Plus […]
https://hackerboards.com LT endianness rant what are the pros and cons? Llama 4 Scout: Pros and Cons of Big-Endian and Little-Endian Big-Endian Pros: Easier to read and write: Big-endian byte order is often considered more intuitive and easier to read and write, […]
since 2022: ARM in the datacenter for example Gigabyte R272-P33 in the ARM Ampere Altra Max Version: 2HE All-NVMe Server happyware.com) while Ampere Altra ARM CPUswere geekbenched a bit NO ONE GEEKBENCHED THIS SERVER YET! 😀 BE THE FIRST! 😀 […]
Starlink is a cost effective internet-via-satellite provider run by SpaceX at 2024-01 currently (2014-01) counts over x > 2 mio customers SpaceX plans to put 12.000 to 42.000 satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). currently (2024-01) 5289 satellites (Wiki) in […]
once upon a time… found a strange looking cable.. Double micro audio jack? WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT? It is a serial-to-usb programming radio cable for RETEVIS handheld “walkie talkie” radios, that allows to set different modes of the radio […]
forget about all other wifi adapters, get the Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7612UAn V2 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8192CU] as long as it’s produced… it just works out of the box on almost any GNU Linux distro including raspberry pi […]
From Open Source software to Open Hardware: RISC-V is the future: “Computer chip designs are expensive and hard to license. That’s all about to change thanks to the popular open standard known as RISC-V” https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1064876/riscv-computer-chips-10-breakthough-technologies-2023/ future Smart Phones could be […]
2023 Update: first scandal with SandDisk SSDs: cheap solder. WD helps ruining latest bought up brandname SandDisk it’s name for quality, by building maximal cheap crap and selling it for premium prices: “Suspected cause of SSD death raises eyebrows | […]
those did not: no matter the position of the poti, the output current did not change at all X-D #wtf is going on? (power source was a “12V” solar panel delivering 20V which is in the allowed input range of […]
why? because it would be a shame to put all those intel Macs to the trash not particularly big fan of the aluminum bodies (uses loads of energy to make also not healthy to be touched daily) but they surely […]
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 […]
easiest and best fire protection: have the cells SPACED apart, so one cell CAN NOT heat up surrounding cells put the battery pack in as-thick-as possible metal box then put plastic bag of sand on top of pack (better than […]
about giada are small, power efficient but powerfull embedded PCs (x86 and ARM, tested the F300, 5 years later: 30x boxes still working perfectly fine, not even a power supply failed!) 😀 benchmark results: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9718004 quasi same CPU speed as […]