Namidairo (u/Namidairo)

Namidairo commented on Tiny, removable "mini SSD" could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/quantummagic

mitthrowaway2 · 6 days ago

Try a Sony Xperia! Vote with your dollar or else they'll stop making them!

Namidairo · 6 days ago

They've pulled out of my market (Australia) 6 years ago, so that's not really an option, even if I imported one.

If I imported one, the majority of the handsets released before this year wouldn't be able to register on a network, given that the networks have gone and blocked the IMEI TAC associated with most of Sony's handsets.[1]

This is due to Sony not having the correct carrier settings in order to roam onto them for emergency calls, and a ham-fisted direction to have working emergency calls post-3G shutdown.

[1] https://isthisphoneblocked.net.au/device-brands/sony

Namidairo commented on Thingino: Open-Source Firmware for IP Cameras thingino.com/... · Posted by u/zakki

gdevenyi · 21 days ago

Fascinating comparison of the main page here versus the OpenIPC camera firmware also on the front page.

First thing I want to know is "do I have this hardware".

These guys do it right.

Namidairo · 21 days ago

It's still a pretty hard question to answer, given how specific model numbers are sometimes missing on sales listings, and silent revisions to hardware.

Namidairo commented on Magic Leap One Bootloader Exploit github.com/EliseZeroTwo/m... · Posted by u/mmastrac

tripdout · 3 months ago

Sounds interesting, got a link?

Namidairo · 3 months ago

Most likely referring to CVE-2018-6242 aka "Fusée Gelée"

The paperclip was just the easiest way of triggering RCM, which is a standard feature on Tegra. The vulnerability lay in that they didn't bounds check certain types of USB requests properly.

Namidairo commented on Magic Leap One Bootloader Exploit github.com/EliseZeroTwo/m... · Posted by u/mmastrac

Namidairo · 3 months ago

I'm surprised that there are modern Tegra devices shipping with identical SBK across their production line.

I would have thought they'd do some mixing based on serial number or chip id as a baseline.

Or at least that's what the hash of their SBK implies.

I do enjoy seeing the boot chain on Tegra get broken yet again though.

Namidairo commented on OpenWrt Two Approval openwrt.org/voting/2025-0... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

lzlrd · 5 months ago

> * 10G SFP

> * 5G copper

> * 4 port 2.5G copper

> * 1-2 port 1G copper

Should've gone for at least two 10G ports and dropped the extra two 1G ports...

Namidairo · 5 months ago

From what I can tell of the block diagram, dropping the 2x 1gbit ports would not yield you a 2nd 10G SFP, as those would be running off the integrated switch as opposed to one of two USXGMII interfaces.

You would have to drop the other ports instead, and then you would just have 2x 10G SFP and a gigabit switch. Which is exactly how the BPi R4 is configured.

Namidairo commented on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update us.community.samsung.com/... · Posted by u/ftufek

eYrKEC2 · 5 months ago

My Samsung TV got more and more unusable with every update. Over the years, saved apps, like Youtube, started to disappear every time it woke up. Then it would default to their Samsung TV app, rather than your last app. Samsung TV app happened to be on the Baywatch channel every time my young children started the stupid thing. Finally, after it took 2 minutes to load the youtube app, I factory-reset the device, disconnected the internet from it, and put a Beelink mini PC in front of it. Works flawlessly.

Samsung product life cycle support seems like planned obsolescence.

Namidairo · 5 months ago

I had a similarly negative experience, sadly. Samsung managed to break HDMI-CEC in the final firmware update for one of their tvs, and wouldn't allow downgrading.

Which tends not to be great for a tv one wants to use with a Chromecast or similar media box...

Namidairo commented on I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs nyanpasu64.gitlab.io/blog... · Posted by u/fanf2

Namidairo · 6 months ago

For a second I thought this was referring to the other reset bug on Polaris, Vega and Navi. (These apparently have broken Function Level Reset sequences, requiring quite specific reset code as a separate module or a system reboot to bring back to a working state.)

Namidairo commented on Using the most unhinged AVX-512 instruction to make fastest phrase search algo gab-menezes.github.io/202... · Posted by u/cmcollier

iamnotagenius · 7 months ago

Imo the most "unhinged" cpus for AVX-512 are early batches of Alder Lakes which is the only cpu family that has nearly full coverage of all existing avx-512 subsets.

Namidairo · 7 months ago

It's a shame that Intel seemed to really not want people to use it, given they started disabling the ability to use it in future microcode, and fused it off in later parts.

Namidairo commented on Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes npr.org/2024/12/29/g-s1-4... · Posted by u/geox

Perenti · 8 months ago

Here in Oz the banning of disposable nicotine vapes has led to an increase in organised crime activity.

Schoolkids are getting the vapes without any problems.

Great idea, but poorly implemented. I'll be interested to see Belgium avoids the issues we're having here in Australia.

Namidairo · 8 months ago

For those not aware, they are most likely referring to an ongoing "tobacco war" among organised crime groups in Australia, with tobacconists becoming the targets of many arson attacks.

Obviously the illicit tobacco trade is a large/primary driver of this, but illicit vapes are also becoming a part of their business.

Namidairo commented on OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt sfconservancy.org/news/20... · Posted by u/m463

yellowapple · 9 months ago

So was the recent Linksys WRT series. The product description on Amazon (which Linksys presumably provided) explicitly advertises the WRT3200ACM as "[o]pen source ready with OpenWrt and DD WRT for complete flexibility and customization of networking functions, or to optimize your router for specific use cases". Likewise for the WRT1900AC: "For advanced users who want to customize their firmware, the WRT1900AC stays true to its lineage by offering an Open WRT compatible firmware with Open Source ready capabilities that allow advanced users to expand the capabilities of the Router.".

The headline's (and article's) claim of the OpenWRT One being the "first router designed specifically for OpenWRT" is misleading, at best.

Namidairo · 9 months ago

The sad thing is, the WRT3200ACM has more or less an unmaintained wifi driver, with 802.11w (and thus WPA3) possibly broken within the radio firmware itself. I believe there are other issues regarding regulatory settings being hardcoded in there too.