@ryanc The one that says "probably lennart's fault somehow anyway" ?
* problems with TCP fallback (firewall, or bug in dnsmasq) * Some random program (chrome?) is hammering DNS resolver * authoritative DNS resolver used as recursive * outdated DNSSEC root of trust or algorithm support
* NetworkManager * netplan.io * Bad interaction with policy routing, done by wireguard or someone else. * Network card corrupts byte 45 on half the packets because systemd enables weird ethtool settings * firewalld or similar installed without notice during an upgrade * two DHCP clients fighting each other * /etc/resolv.conf is missing or configured to use localhost and two local DNS resolvers are fighting each other
@dalias heat pumps can move heat from a hot source to a cold source when external power is applied to them, because you ignore the heat produced by the external power generator.
If you stop ignoring the heat produced by the external power generator and include it into the hot source, the resulting system cannot cool itself.
@dalias This sounds like a violation of the second principle of thermodynamics.
Your body+compressor would be a thermodynamic system that can cool itself using only its internal energy without any external power being applied to it.
In practice, cooling without access to a cold source is very inefficient.
All fullmac devices run a firmware that contains the equivalent of mac80211 (MLME), so if you can rewrite their firmware, you can probably turn them to softmac devices. But that's a big if, since vendors lock everything down.
fullmac devices still have some advantages. They offload work off the CPU, and the CPU can even go to sleep while still connected to an AP, so the system uses less power. The offload is also useful for modern gigafast devices (think 802.11ax/be/bn) where the CPU can be a limiting factor. In fact, many modern devices are a blend of softmac and fullmac.
@dalias@nilix@joe@r@pinskia@cr1901@astraleureka@mirabilos You must be thinking of cfg80211, which is the common API for all modern wireless drivers. mac80211 is just a layer between cfg80211 and softmac drivers. fullmac drivers uses cfg80211 directly.
Most (if not all) wireless chips found in smartphones are fullmac. The raspberry pi also uses a fullmac chipset.
fullmac devices (which are very common) typically do not support 4-addr mode. In fact, with a rapid grep, I could only find one fullmac driver (qtnfmac) that supports 4-addr, and only in STA mode.
@whitequark@hsivonen Some of these systems are quite hard to replace by efficient alternatives. I retired a 15 years old i386 fanless industrial pc with 2 eth, many serial and USB1 ports, screen, two SATA drives and a PCI port. It consumed ~15W.
To get the same DMIPS with less watt these days, you would probably need an ARM SBC, except most of those are missing the connectivity of a PC, have an out-of-tree kernel with no security updates and you are expected to design the case and the thermal management yourself, otherwise it will crash every week.
In the end, i replaced it with a modern PC with more DMIPS for the same wattage, hoping it will last ten years. Hardly a win for e-waste.
@dalias@JessTheUnstill We already have something like that in France: the government gives your employer the percentage of income that must be paid. It's still displayed on the paystub.
In practice, it means your employer can infer personal details from that percentage alone, and track it over time. If it's high, you're probably single. If it's medium, you're probably in a small family. If it's low, you're probably in a big family. If it's higher than high, you're earning more money via another gig...
There is an option to give your employer a "standard" percentage and pay/refund the rest, but that percentage is between medium and high, so penalizes everyone but singles, so almost no one bothers with it.