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What is the scam? A thing no one asked for that breaks out new component level monitoring... I smell a 'protect the children' type malevolence.
USB-C is hot garbage for high power applications though. That pin pitch (tiny copper trace size) and the trace routing with inversion is awful for hardware design. It is like placing a fuse or power resistor between the PCB and connector. It gets hot in those 3mm of a tiny wisp of a wire, and power is super close to the other pins. So it cooks every bit of oily hand grime shoved in with the plug over time. The pin pitch is so terrible, you can't even order the spec required from the base price level of any board house like PCB way. You have to pay a lot more for a higher precision etching process.
RCA is nonexistent and just branding on contract manufactured goods. AT&T was enormous when Bell Labs was relevant. Now they are little more than a utility service. You are certainly not going to see something relevant like C or Unix coming from them now. Motorola is a joke of a shell of its former 68k self, and in no position of relevant innovation or competition. Intel could not get anything right. They have no competitive products to speak of, they gutted most of the open source stuff that matters and they will never recover to real relevance again. Time will tell. Computing is changing because we are at the final nodes. This is the most critical moment to be on top because the scaling laws are over. Missing the game now is a flop that will reverberate for a century. People do not understand the enormity of what it means to be at the final nodes of silicon. You will see it as the end of an epic within the coming decade. The world of the 1940s-1960s is returning because silicon is the only civilian industry in all of human history that has grown faster than the largest military budget in the world can afford to fund. There has never been another product that is so expensive to build tooling to then create something that is so cheap to produce. It blocks out anyone that wants to invest to compete. This is why it is so critical to fund and build a competitive final set of nodes. There is nothing left to strive for or undercut. There is no ability to fund the node and scale it to compete. There is no room to catch up. The race is over. To fail now, is catastrophic. The final node is less than 10 years away already. But the thing people do not realize is that the hardware cycle is actually 10 years long from initial idea to first products to market. This means the actual engineers on the bleeding edge are already past the end with nowhere to go. There is no more R&D to do for the last +1 node.
So that is why I say Intel. I won't buy their stuff now.
Checking out how to build an OS from scratch is also handy. It can be an interesting low risk way to explore building Gentoo, Arch, or Linux From Scratch.
The main appeal IMO, is that you have microcontroller like input, output, and serial communications already setup in the kernel with access in user space. As long as the kernel is supported by the Rπ foundation, (it is proprietary undocumented hardware that only they can support), you are getting the security updates required to keep the thing online automatically and safely. The best stuff to build is unique stuff for you that uses these aspects. Like make a little bathroom clock with a little TFT LCD display that tells you the local weather. Then set up some RSS feeds for local community stuff you do not want on your main mobile device, like maybe local political activity, library and community center events, concerts, clubs, etc.
For server stuff, I would stick with devices with purpose built hardware. Like, a micro SD card is slow and unreliable, and the lack of nvme is bad. In most cases it is cheaper to use other old devices that already have screens unless you want to share a hardware design that is repeatable, you need something secure to keep online, or you need serial or input/output. Those are the main benefits.
The thing is, the Rπ is what it is. It is the path of least resistance. The software support is approachable and great. The price is cheap. However, the non profit thing is a scam. The Rπ foundation is basically an arm of Broadcom. The Rπ is a chip from a set top TV box with 3/4 of the die unused. Broadcom uses excess fab capacity to make the Rπ chips and sell them at materials cost. This is not charity. It is controlling the grass roots market to make competitive scaling business ventures difficult. This is why Rockchip is not crushing them already. The Rockchip RK3588 chip is fully documented and open source. In this space, there is little to no innovation, it is only about price on ancient trailing fab nodes. This is the ladder to climb that leads to Intel, AMD, Samsung, and Qualcomm. The Rπ is the guy kicking anyone that tries to climb. So... use it for what it is good for, but in most cases, other hardware is better, and there is nothing wrong with saying so, or moving past the Rπ. I'm lying next to a RK3566 machine right now, sorting out issues with the ARM version of Fedora Workstation, looking at how to build the native WiFi module for it from source, and maybe try debugging an issue in that module's code that is causing a memory race condition. Although that last one is past my typical pay grade. - So I'm not all fluff here.
That is just my $0.02.
Adafruit!!! Fucking fork it and call it something else. No one on the planet with two working braincells wants anything to do with Qualcomm. They are extorting the world for their existence. It will be a happy day when they finally crash and burn like RCA, AT&T, Motorola, Intel, and many others. They eventually crash and burn leaving an insignificant shell of a company or nothing more than a meaningless sticker. I have had to buy several garbage devices with Qualcomm's criminal orphan kernel exploit because I have no choice. Allowing them anywhere near open source must be met with a pitchfork and noose. Criminals like that NEVER change.
Growing up as a Jehovah's Witness, I was a volunteer on many "quick builds". Witnesses typically build a kingdom hall using volunteers. Of course they pay to have the concrete foundation poured or a more specialized regional volunteer crew does the on site work. The rest of the structure goes up in a 3 day weekend and is painted, carpeted, with all furniture and amenities by Sunday. I think they are a little slower now than they used to be, like a two weekend stretch due to inspections and code. There are witnesses that do all of the required licensed professions. Like my old man is a Wiremen, so I always got stuck in the attic and crawl spaces running wire.
I'm not in that world any more, but I would gladly spend a few weekends a year helping build someone a few houses in a similar style in exchange for building my own home when it is my turn. Like what if it was an open list where you could build some credible skills by showing up and trying to work in one trade, but have around 50:50 chance of getting that assignment. If you already have a licensed skill or trade, your volunteer time is worth more. Anyone is welcome to show up to builds in their region. Your volunteer time is how you move up the list. If you have property, supplies, and can afford the time, you could volunteer every weekend to expedite your own build on the regional list.In my experience, the social connections from this kind of experience are so strong that many people will continue to volunteer and show up without any expectations whatsoever.
IMO, public forestry land and resources should fall into this kind of system. Even the majority of your supplies should be derived from the same system.
Anyways, that is just my take on what is possible.
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Wouldn't a bubble be at least partially correlated with banking loan duration? I'm not sure what the nominal terms are, but figure they are all likely on the same schedule due to the initial influx of public interest. So if one company defaults, the rest are put under far greater scrutiny and results in collapse.
That is how I watched retail fail. Default on one distributor and the rest quickly find out. If the retailer does not have a good excuse in that moment, they all pull credit even if one is in good standing with all the rest. When it is the first time, if the issue happens in the off season or the business is in the process of expanding and opening a new store, no one cares in general and will often extend terms. If the local region is doing badly, it is another thing entirely. Everyone is on edge and conservative. I figure that dynamic is likely universal in business at all scales.
Printing would be a question of the optical properties of the resins. It is common to find simple light pipes with 90° angles in products now. Worst case scenario, I would make it a two piece design where the lower body accepts small fishing line. Typical colorless fishing line is basically a fiber optic wire without an optical design specification. So just insert that to route the digits for each key. It would look like an old school HP alphanumeric dot display. Glue the line on the back side of each key with epoxy, then use a carefully designed raser jig to cut/terminate each line. Finally, add a printed lens diffuser.
I haven't messed with resin and it probably would not work, but if a jig to remount and align keys to the resin printer plate were possible, I could see skipping the second lens diffuser, scuffing the surface of the top of each key before attaching each strand of fishing line, and then printing the rest of the key over top of the strands so that the light is only passing through the semi opaque plastic with no indication of character without the backlight. It would be interesting to mix my experience as a pro automotive painter & graphics/airbrush artist to mess around with aesthetics of a resin applied in stages and intermediate surface finishes. A UV cured resin cannot be all that different than the stuff I am more familiar with.
If there were cheap, open source, resin 3d printers with an open slicer, I would be tempted to design a keyboard that uses light pipes and 2-4 LEDs per key to make something like this. Many early electronic display devices worked like this. Like some of the early Apollo program hardware NASA used were just little incandescent bulbs barely more than a Christmas lights. These were angled and projected onto a plastic lens with specially angled facets on the back that created a pathway for one of eight bulbs to create a numerical display. Fran's Lab on YT tends to show off stuff like this. It should be possible to make a similar light pipe design for multiple key backlights.
I would probably get too side tracked in making printable mechanical keys.
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Still using pixel 6. When they stole my battery with their bullshit, I went and got a open hardware tablet running a Rockchip processor with Arm Arch and a full datasheet. If open hardware exists whenever the criminals quit security updates for this orphan kernel exploit, I will gladly buy it. I don't care who makes it or what the specs are. If it has basic functionality, I'm fine with that. Mainline kernel support with fully documented hardware is god. I don't care if it is two or three times more expensive. If there are no strings attached, and I can own it for life, I will buy it. Funding this criminal world is what I hate more than anything else.
I could come up with something contextual on the fly, but it is not a thing I think about. I do not feel a need to navigate or explore my sexual dogma, not that there is anything wrong with doing so. I guess I am lucky to have grown up with experiences that helped me learn what I do and do not find arousing. I think I am open to new experiences, but I generally follow my curiosity wherever it leads and do not care how anyone else feels about that. I'm fiercely loyal, so not in that way.
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The stuff from before I was physically disabled by cars while commuting. Mostly my bicycle racing stuff. My skills matter to me a lot, so like when people appreciate or recall them and ask me stuff about them, even when I do not have the ability to do them any more, I get sentimental.
You don't want multiple layers as it will lift and cause adhesion issues. The action of heating and letting it cool once is stressful enough on the material. When you create a second heating, while there is a temperature gradient present already, that will create the stress that lifts edges.
Really dial in your first layer settings. The hack is to just use elephant's foot for the first layer, but you are not actually dialing in your flow and squish. If you take the time to dial in the first layer well, your supports base layer removal should improve. It is possible to get a first layer printing like glass.
Also, you may have a setting to increase the bed probe resolution. That may help if the first layer is not even.
Your username is pUrE EviL. But giving away money is nice. What was it before, Allo IIRC?
Careful doing that with mystery money. If it was a banking error, you may end up on the hook for paying it back and they won't accept that you spent it. Just be aware this is a thing.
Japan already did a test that solves this. Just make wooden satellites. Seriously, it is a thing.