UnityDevice

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[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Mediatek has been making phone SoCs since forever now, they have two lines - Helios and Dimensity. They're used in many phones, usually on the lower end. Even Samsung uses them. Both lines have abysmal custom rom support compared to Snapdragon phones, so I don't think you can hope for much there.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

We did it, ~~reddit~~ NYPD!

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 12 points 10 months ago

That's what I signed up for.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah, it was Tuesday yesterday.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 11 months ago

Sir, permission to leave the station?
For what purpose Master Chief?
To give the Covenant back their bomb...

Haven't seen this one mentioned yet.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Podman not because of security but because of quadlets (systemd integration). Makes setting up and managing container services a breeze.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

The receptacle is the issue - it can have up to 24 pins (though usually it's 12ish), all bunched up in just a slightly larger space than on a micro usb receptacle which has 4 pins. So it takes some good skill to replace.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

Just recently I had a tech store guy gently but repeatedly insist to me that a certain USB cable was a USB 3 cable because it was type C on both ends. I didn't wanna argue with him, but the box clearly said "480 Mbit", so it was just a type C charging cable.

Of course the box designers were hoping you'd make that mistake so they didn't write USB 2 on there, just the speed. And most boxes won't even have that, you'll just have to buy it and see.

But I mean if someone who spent their whole life fixing computers can get something that basic wrong, then it's really a hopeless situation for anyone who isn't techy.

And of course once it's out of the box it's anyone's guess what it is. It's a real mess for sure.

[–] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it seems the sensor costs as much as a decent used camera.

The earlier parts of this lecture by Irving Finkel talk about what happened when they first translated the more original flood story from stone tablets in 1872. And the rest of the lecture is a nice story about an adventure, so I can only recommend watching the whole thing.

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