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kieranl commented on Framework Laptop 16 frame.work/ro/en/laptop16... · Posted by u/susanthenerd

umbra07 · 5 days ago

My understanding was that there's not really anything you can do with the NPU yet?

kieranl · 5 days ago

Copilot supports it. And on windows you can try AMD tools like https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade to run arbitrary LLMs. AMD is actively developing support for the NPU.

kieranl commented on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/rbanffy

milofeynman · a month ago

Is it a kid friendly event for a 8 year old who doesn't know any YouTubers? Like we he have fun seeing all the maker stuff?

kieranl · a month ago

I took my 7 and 6 year old and they loved it! We spent all our time looking at projects and booths. They have no interest in the talks. With that said, there are not that many kids below highschool age that were in attendance. It is more geared to older kids/adults. But I do think there are lots of things to see there for kids. Probably the higher entrance fee reduces this a bit as well.

With that said, you want to pay close attention to your small children, as some of the exhibits are not super kid safe. But that is part of the fun!

There is a lot of variability in what you see as well. Some tables have incredible cutting edge projects, and other are exciting for a highschooler. Some are amazing highschool/middle school projects that the builders are really passionate about, but might not wow you technically.

Every year I find an amazing creator there, where I bring in their work to our house for the family to build/play with. Last year we found https://www.trackstacker.net/ which has provided hours of fun over the last 12 months. And this year we found https://professorboots.com 3d printed construction equipment.

kieranl commented on Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true theverge.com/23725039/fra... · Posted by u/hillcrestenigma

gubneor · 2 years ago

Better control over the power LED would be good -- its blinding in certain environments

kieranl · 2 years ago

You can adjust the brightness in the bios

kieranl commented on Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true theverge.com/23725039/fra... · Posted by u/hillcrestenigma

javajosh · 2 years ago

Will you ever stop iterating on the chassis and focus purely on the replaceable components? Seems to me that a reparable/upgradable laptop doesn't matter if you keep changing the chassis such that in order to enjoy new features you need an entirely new laptop every iteration. It also feels to me, as an 11th gen owner, that I've been left behind with my power and sound issues. Which is basically the same boat as any laptop user.

kieranl · 2 years ago

The chassis is fully compatible with all previous framework laptops.

kieranl commented on UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners bbc.co.uk/news/business-6... · Posted by u/tvararu

Scoundreller · 2 years ago

Question is how this differentiates between the fluids inside. Shape means little.

kieranl · 2 years ago

Most x-ray machines use multi spectral detectors that detect 2 or more x-ray wavelengths. This is used for basic material characterization.

kieranl commented on LVFS – Linux Vendor Firmware Service fwupd.org... · Posted by u/nickexyz

kieranl · 3 years ago

As a hardware developer lvfs and fwupd is amazing. It has support for all kinds of standard update protocols. So if you build a product and use a standardized update mechanism, it is super easy to get updates on lvfs.

The other thing that is great is the testing and validation groups allows you to setup target groups so you can fully validate your updates internally before staging rollouts.

Also @hughsient is really responsive at fixing issues.

We use fwupd at Framework Computer.

kieranl commented on Google wants to take on Dolby with new open media formats protocol.com/entertainmen... · Posted by u/mmastrac

toast0 · 3 years ago

Well of course ATSC 3 includes a new proprietary Dolby format, ATSC 1 got AC-3 as a mandatory audio format, too.

I'm not sure if ac-4 is mandatory, but it seems like it is? Kind of a big pain indeed.

kieranl · 3 years ago

Atsc mandates ac-3. Ac-3 audio is actually dolby-d. They just could not call it Dolby in the standard so they renamed it to ac3 instead.

kieranl commented on The new and upgraded Framework Laptop community.frame.work/t/in... · Posted by u/etbusch

moderation · 3 years ago

Haven't been able to find anything beyond his Jan 6 2022 tweet [0]. No response in the forums for this question [1] from 4 days ago. Frustrating to not be able to upgrade BIOS for Linux users without resorting to Windows or replacing boot loaders

0. https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter/status/147913722834957517...

1. https://community.frame.work/t/lvfs-3-07-bios-availability/1...

kieranl · 3 years ago

We have LVFS updates in lvfs testing but there is a bios capsule update bug that wipes the boot entries on update. Feedback from 3.07 was that some distros fail to boot after the update because they do not put a efi loader in the fallback path of the ESP partition. So we are hesitant to enable LVFS on 11th gen due to this issue. The code that handles this runs from the previous bios, so we cannot fix this in the capsule. We do offer a EFI update which you can use without booting into windows. https://knowledgebase.frame.work/en_us/framework-laptop-bios...

kieranl commented on The new and upgraded Framework Laptop community.frame.work/t/in... · Posted by u/etbusch

nfriedly · 3 years ago

What about a Thunderbolt connection and a PCIe ethernet adapter - could that work?

kieranl · 3 years ago

The power consumption of this would be too high.

kieranl commented on Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside California home whio.com/news/trending/po... · Posted by u/CharlesW

na85 · 4 years ago

Since it's probably just an SDR internally, I'm sure someone with a bit of RF know-how could put a transmit amp between the antenna and the device.

kieranl · 4 years ago

These are much simpler. Usually just a 555 setup as a triangle wave generator connected to a series of voltage controlled oscillator chips with a small amp, one per antenna.