Lock-makers should start including RFID and a software key checking mechanism, then sharing the key would be illegal
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Readit Newsdcan commented on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
dcan commented on AMD Open Source Driver for Vulkan project is discontinued github.com/GPUOpen-Driver... · Posted by u/haunter
I still do not understand why they don't it makes their hardware basically good for life, since now you can run it on any OS if you really want to put the effort in to wire it all up.
Patents and licensing, usually
Video is pretty scary. The software doesn’t even seem to have a remote idea of what commands it should be sending to the steering system, but it sends the commands anyway, causing it to jerk back and forth between “I think I turn here” and “I think I go straight.”
What cities are these garbage cars being tested in, so I can avoid driving, biking, or walking there?
dcan commented on Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi downtowndougbrown.com/202... · Posted by u/zdw
One caveat of these dummy plugs is that they don't do HDCP. They handle the typical use case of forcing a specific resolution output for headless machines rather well, but fail for the use case that you need to run something that expects HDCP.
This seems a good place to ask: does anyone know of a good solution like this HDMI dummy plug, but that negotiates HDCP? I need to test video streaming apps that require HDCP to play at full resolution, but it is inconvenient to have a full TV for every test.
The one solution I've found is an HDMI multiviewer, which seems to negotiate HDCP to each port individually.
Terminating HDCP is difficult, you’d have to downgrade it to HDCP 1.4 and then have a 1.4 ‘compliant’ (see: device on the end for it to be a dummy monitor. If you need anything newer than HDCP 1.4, it’s likely not possible.
dcan commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike
I still can't believe how slow MS Word is to load a .docx document of about 150 pages of text, you can watch the page count in the status bar grow over a period of 10 seconds or more as it loads/paginates it.
On the plus side, it's nostalgic and reminds me of the old MS Word 6 on Windows 95 (or Windows 3.1?) so that's nice.l
Try reading a 40+ page document with track changes enabled (and 100+ changes) - it pins a full CPU core for 5 seconds when you go to the next page!
dcan commented on I think we need a bigger boot partition blog.fernvenue.com/archiv... · Posted by u/fernvenue
Gray text on a black background is an awful colour choice for this website
Does this require an NVIDIA GPU to run? Or is a comparable AMD GPU sufficient?
I tried Portal RTX on a 9070 XT and got 20 FPS at full resolution (no frame generation). There’s no driver limitations, but I have no idea what the expected FPS is
Can anyone explain how the dual ARM/RISC-V system works, architecturally?
Are there two actual CPUs on the same die? Is it one shared architecture with two different instruction decode stages, one for ARM and the other for RISC-V that can be toggled at boot time? I like the idea conceptually but I'm not sure how much of that is a hack and/or inefficient compared to a pure ARM or RISC-V core.
To be more precise, four CPUs - two ARM and two RISC. There is just a mux for the instruction and data buses - see chapter 3 of the [datasheet](https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2350/rp2350-datasheet.p...).
It’s space-inefficient as half of the CPUs are shutdown, but architecturally it’s all on the same bus.
dcan commented on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting theverge.com/news/609207/... · Posted by u/ambigious7777
Then the graphics card would have to have a transformer on it to step down to the voltage that the chips can handle.
They already do - most of the components buck the 12V down to the 1.3ish volts that the GPU core needs