Notices by Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social), page 5

Happy #familysysadmin day. I debugged a voicemail problem and replaced a glass screen protector. Brother in law replaced a TV antenna and 'smart' TV dark-pattern-avoidance training.

"I was told Rockchip no longer considers RK3588 to be an “open source” chip. In practice, that means Rockchip no longer contributes RK3588 code to open-source projects and they also decided not to sell RK3588 directly to SBC vendors." https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/21/rockchip-rk3588-mainline-linux-support-current-status-and-future-work-for-2025/

This, paired with Joshua Riek stepping away from ubuntu-rockchip, doesn't bode well for RK3588's SBC futures.

Maybe why Radxa is going with a different vendor for their next flagship board, the Orion 6?

@dch Chips And Cheese has a good architecture overview: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/ampereone-at-hot-chips-2024-maximizing-density

You know it's serious business when btop needs to fullscreen just to display all cores...

AMD 7000-series graphics cards now work on Raspberry Pi. 4K Doom Eternal. 4K Crysis. OBS hardware video transcoding. It all works!!!

It's not perfect, but what graphics card driver is? Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qx_bdFSSuc (more details on my blog).

M4 efficiency is stunning. First machine I've tested getting over 5 Gflops/W with HPL, and in fact it goes beyond 6 Gflops/W... with fan only spinning up to a quiet 2500 rpm.

Maybe this is why Qualcomm abandoned their marquee Dev Kit—it is thoroughly trounced by M4.

Welp there goes my record!

@skatterbencher just pulled out ALL the stops overclocking a @raspberry_pi 5 to 3.6 GHz! https://youtu.be/qzy24LkL_4Q

A private self-hosted VPN is a superpower #homelab

Product announcements need a 'Skip AI section' button like the 'Skip Intro' button on streaming platforms.

This is an IP KVM. Would you like to know more?

@vkc definitely; they are an essential part of the Internet on so many levels!

@luisfcorreia - Matt Mullenweg took over maintainership of a popular plugin today without the consent of the plugin maintainers: https://twitter.com/wp_acf/status/1845169499064107049

I didn't have the rapid demise of Wordpress on my 2024 bingo card.

St. Louis, MO close to the city lights, still see the #aurora

After being published on my channel for over two years, YouTube put a strike on my channel for my video showing people how to set up Jellyfin on their NAS, for promoting "dangerous or harmful content".

Video was posted here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VkY1vTpCJY) and had nothing about bypassing DRM, stealing content, or bypassing subscription services (other than a call to stop using Netflix, Disney+, etc. because they keep jacking up rates while providing less quality).

A Discord is not a substitute for a website. Or a support forum. Or an issue queue.

Or really pretty much anything besides maybe IRC or Matrix if you're not worried about the openness of the chat platform.

I tore down the new Qualcomm Snapdragon Dev Kit—the CoPilot+'est of CoPilot+ PCs. All the gory details on my blog: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/qualcomm-snapdragon-dev-kit-windows-teardown-2024

Update: The CEO of Elecrow responded to my email about the unauthorized voice cloning early this morning.

I will be posting a video with more details and my reaction either tomorrow or Wednesday, but here's a snippet of the email.

They stole my voice with AI

Elecrow—an electronics company that makes Pi and ESP accessories—used an AI voice for multiple tutorial series which sounds _almost exactly_ like me.

I never consented to have my voice used to promote Elecrow's products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMofZIT9FcQ

"I'M DOING MY PART!" 🫡

Saving the 900 MHz band for @meshtastic and other hobby uses. You can too! https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bname%5D=24-240