AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

The closer I move to FLOSS, the less relevant I become. The world isn't going to move away from the digital prisons. I used to think that Libre Software was enough but it's not.

One of the biggest problems for people involved in development of Libre Software and Firmware isn't the actual development. The biggest problem is the whole idea of Intellectual Property on a physical device. The companies who designed these products have made them hostile to any other work than superficial Open Source. They have the legal right to have criminal charges pressed on people who are only working to give people the option to use FLOSS.

These companies will hide the fact that they have IP embedded in many different products and they won't make themselves known until development is underway on a replacement. They set traps and sabotage work on FLOSS. What they do isn't for security, criminals aren't deterred by laws.

The results from the above don't just waste a developer's time, it destroys their work, discredits them, erodes at morale and this affects an entire community. There would be many more stories about this if the companies didn't go after those who dare to be specific. There's nothing like being wronged by those who laid their traps just to cause harm. It's not uncommon to find BSD and similar licensed code being used in the same firmware.

My point is please be patient with the developers who fight to give people control over their own hardware. They don't get paid for their work and they could easily get criminal charges without knowingly violating any laws. These developers are usually some of the most dedicated and perhaps some of the best around. The best possible reward for these people is simply achieving their goal.

@inference @hxvy0 Yes that's the exact stage I was referring to. If you haven't experienced it, it performed like garbage at first and then performance gradually improved. It was a weird experience but I have never seen an Intel with the thermal and boost control of those processors. It was a normal load or the fans started to sound like they were a distant jet using afterburner. Really good iGPU on those and that's essentially all they had going for them.

That's a nice Athalon. Minimalism is underappreciated now and it's almost as if it's foreign.

@thendrix I guess it's over for them unless they pull the George Washington quote about the danger of Political Parties and declare them unconditional. That being the only branch of government that's protected from political pressure and the only one sober enough for such a decision. The Supreme Court won't go without a hell of a fight. It would require changing The Constitution which incites more anger than The Bible getting revised.

I just don't see it doing anything but backfiring and seeing the Legislative Branch get culled. President Biden could easily side with The Supreme Court and become one of the most important Presidents of our history.

@thendrix It's protected by DHS, they will run or be highly encouraged to run. Who knows what would happen if they decide to say no?

@thor Ham Radio because it's a tight community, it's not nerdy and you might get special privileges. In the US, certified ham radio operators are considered essential personnel and allowed free movement even under military control. It's because they can get some coms working after a disaster.

I can't think of any activities that would be enjoyable on the level that nerdy stuff is. From what I've heard of hacker/maker spaces, perhaps you selected the wrong difficulty and need to move up the ranks.

Improvise, adapt and overcome. I think I could make a reconfigurable antenna but the ideas I'm coming up with are very crude. It's not that it would be inefficient but it would be complex. Electronic and Pneumatic logic separate from the feed line.

I think I just witnessed Electromagnetism interference completely disrupt a cellular signal. I don't think I've seen lightning do that before. I think the plasma can cause this type of disruption. I'm not familiar with the exact Physics of plasma but I seem to recall being able to hear thunderstorms on some type of radio.

Waves are really cool.

@igelsQTs I almost pointed out how their gear would get them chewed out and then I remembered oh it's a model.

@inference @hxvy0 I have one before Zen and the PSP. It's so scuffed of a design that I don't require microcode updates. Everything is mitigated in the kernel on the few exploits that could actually work on the hardware.

It's the generation where it was apparent they were nearing SMT as I have what looks like a dual core that's actually a quad core. It's an odd architecture if you want to look into it. I believe they were either Bulldozer or Excavator cores. They perform like they are named.

I did something similar to what you did with Gentoo. I used Ubuntu Kylin and built a hardened and optimized Kernel. I also built everything from source code to optimize it for my system. I did chassis modifications to lower thermals and swapped to low voltage ram of the same speed and it allowed my system to use dual channel memory and it is operating on more RAM than it officially supports.

Are you talking about the Athalon Silver?

@inference We have soldiers found dead from heat stroke here and it happens every summer. The best thing one can do is strip down and sip water while they are still conscious. Chugging water has caused some of the heat related deaths.

You ever been to a rave? It's kinda the same idea of keeping one's core temperature within an acceptable range. If it gets out of that range, it's not going to be good.

Don't drink alcohol and remember to stay hydrated. You can use the color of your urine to judge how hydrated you are. If you haven't pissed, it's definitely time to hydrate. I think the optimal area is around light yellow.

@hxvy0 It is a hard thing to deal with but having suboptimal hardware makes a better computer user. I made my pre Zen AMD CPU outperform 3rd gen i5 desktops by optimizing everything I could. Even the computational tasks were faster. In a benchmark they would easily kill my A10 by at least a factor of 2.

It's not what one has but how they use it.

@inference Hydrate and get out of the clothes! As an American, no I don't but I know if I start getting cramps from being in the heat that I need to find a cooler area before I die. It takes about two months for the human body to adjust to a new climate. So don't worry about the future. We evolved to adapt.

@ryo @PaulaToThePeople Also the end of The Cold War...On to the next one.

@rastinza I had a WNIC on the first system I tried Linux on and every distribution went into Kernel Panic except for DSL. The driver would load automatically and cause a Kernel Panic. It was the first and only time I had to physically remove hardware to get Linux running.

In retrospect, it was a good start with Linux. At the time I was rather upset that it had taken a couple of weeks to get working. Within a year or so I was hardening Kernels and custom compiling for different purposes. That was a decade ago.

It's a pleasure to help as I wouldn't have made it this far without the help of others.

@rastinza I thought about recommending RHEL and decided not to just as quickly as it came into my mind.

Glad you found something that is working. You should have good repos for OpenMP and GPGPU utilization. You should be able to configure the GPU to be used in calculations or compilation without much work. If you think you are fast now, wait until you get the GPU cores involved. That's one positive thing I will say about RHEL. It's good with Clusters, HPC, Heterogeneous Hardware and doing systems tests on the F-22 Raptor.

@rastinza Good luck with that Nvidia GPU and Linux. If you are using an open source driver for the GPU then use the proprietary driver. Monitor the boot process for more useful information. I'm guessing it's the GPU.