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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Saturday, 30-Dec-2023 07:58:12 JST 
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@weirdtreething @lanodan @domi Sound Open Firmware, yep.
I probably should do something about my speech disorder -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Friday, 29-Dec-2023 10:07:36 JST
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(Un)popular opinion: I honestly wish we could go back to using one client (i.e Pidgin or Kopete) for all IMs.
For some people out there it might be a history lesson, but just like now, we used to use multiple IM services for different social circles.
- IRC
- XMPP/Jabber
- Google Talk/iChat
- Localized services (i.e GG or TLEN in Poland)
Just imagine that you could use Matrix, Discord, Telegram, Signal or whatever people use these days in a single app with coherent interface, that would use maybe like 200 - 500MB of RAM (assuming caching from Discord severs and what not).
Instead of having each "webapp" open (which on my desktop usually accumulates to ~2GB of RAM usage idle), you could use a literal potato to talk to other people.
I fondly remember using an ancient PDA (HTC TyTn II with Windows Mobile 6) in high school. It was an absolute marvel to use - mSD card, headphone jack (though via dongle, so how tables have turned), physical QWERTY keyboard and stylus.
It served me for literal ages. I would use it to talk to my friends, watch movies, connect to server in my bedroom running FreeBSD 9.2 over SSH and so on.
All of that on Qualcomm MSM7200 - 400MHz ARM11 (though not sure why I thought it was an XScale, weird) and 128MB of RAM.
I know for a fact that most IM software is unnecessarily bloated, as my laptop lasts a loooot longer on battery if I don't use Discord on it.
This opinion will once again will light my butt on fire, but I believe EU should force companies providing messaging services to open up their APIs and allow using 3rd party clients without ToS bullshit that discord is doing. -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Monday, 18-Dec-2023 02:46:27 JST
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Time traveller: *moves chair*
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 21:50:57 JST
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@domi @exi That, and Code Lyoko lol -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 21:50:55 JST
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@domi @exi According to the author of Code Lyoko Chronicles, Jeremy used an old PowerBook with Linux (Gnome 2 stylized to look like macOS, probably Compiz Beryl with Cairo Dock) -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Monday, 11-Dec-2023 05:53:51 JST
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@nullenvk @psykose We're old, folks -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 09:26:07 JST
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@marcan In my opinion, all consumer devices should have implemented easy restore features like DFU or FlashBack.
Like... come on, it cannot be *that* expensive to implement.
Google is putting H1 (CR50) into dirt cheap devices, which gives you access to UART, EC and SPI with cable that you can build for 2$ *and* makes schematics publicly available (not that long ago you could just buy one from popular retailer worldwide - completely "off the shelf").
While Apple's DFU feature is indeed nice, firmware that does the actual platform init should always be separate from user data so recovery process would never result in data loss. That's just my opinion though. -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Thursday, 19-Oct-2023 19:45:12 JST
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@kuneau -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 00:07:01 JST
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@michcia @kaia Yeah, Windows drivers that CoolStar writes are paid (attempt to stop re-sellers from leeching off of the project).
If you're using Linux, everything will work as long as you stick with something like Arch or Fedora because we're often pushing updates.
Linux support on ChromeOS devices brought by @weirdtreething and myself :) -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 00:06:58 JST
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@michcia @kaia Yep, we go by boardnames because "HP Chromebook 14a" has the same name for like 7 different platforms.
If you say "BOBBA" for instance, I instantly recognize that's GLK (GeminiLake) platform with DA7219/MAX98357A audio stack and ELAN touchscreen.
That's why. If you see stuff like "KRANE", "HANA", those are boardnames for this specific device :) -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 03:26:07 JST
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This opinion will light my butt on fire, but mailing lists are absolutely the worst way to contribute code in modern day and age.
It took me 2 minutes to write and form a patch. Now I have to remind myself how to send it to upstream properly. -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2023 03:57:29 JST
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@iro_miya @domi I'd love to :D
PCI-E HotPlugging is available on this motherboard, because even though it it a consumer platform, PCI-E HotPlug is required by ThunderBolt specification - at least to my understanding.
This means that when I'll be done with this port, if you would use this board with coreboot as a server, you would be able to yoink a HBA for instance, replace it with 10GbE NIC, rescan devices from sysfs and... have it work. It's super interesting. -
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elly (elly@donotsta.re)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2023 03:54:23 JST
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Aaaaand IOMMU/VFIO, which was broken on stock FW is working :)
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