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t312227 commented on Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit notebookcheck.net/Framewo... · Posted by u/woodrowbarlow

t312227 · 17 days ago

hello,

as alwas: imho. (!)

is it possible to install for example a current "vanilla" debian arm64 on this mainboard!?

what i mean by that:

write the "official" debian arm64 installation image to a thumbdrive, press some key & boot into the installation!?

and run the resulting system with the distributions "offical" kernel from the debian arm64-architecture!?

w/o jumping thru a few "hoops" like a lion in a circus ... ;)

i know ... the "openness" of the descendants of ibm pc at compatible machines was some kind of a "historical" error by ibm, but i got used to it!!

i like to "own" hardware i bought with my hard-earned money. i heavily prefer hardware, which is easily bootable from "inoffical" boot-medias - read: FOSS ... eg. linux/*BSD/...

and i'm not interested in "clamped down" hardware a la "most" available ARM boards - regardless of notebooks/tablets/phones ...

just my 0.02€

t312227 commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

t312227 · 20 days ago

software-developer ~ devops-/cloud-engineer ~ linux system-engineer

location: innsbruck, austria (CET / UTC +1)

remote: yes (experienced in working remotely)

willing to relocate: no, but occasional / regular visits "on-site" are possible

technologies: java, spring-boot, camunda, openapi/swagger, pl(pg)sql, linux, AWS/GCP, docker, kubernetes, bash, php, python, django, rest-framework, prometheus, CI/CD, agile processes (scrum & kanban), jira/confluence etc.etc...

resume/cv: drop me an e-mail, please

e-mail: hireme at schuetz dot in

web: https://schuetz.in

i'm a veteran technology professional (25+ years) with experience in a variety of software-development, system-architecture, systems-administration, service-reliability-engineering and devops-/cloud-engineering (container / kubernetes) roles.

i'm a highly motivated self-learner, an excellent problem solver and i can help you to resolve your technical obstacles.

t312227 commented on X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200 tpart.net/about-x210ai/... · Posted by u/walterbell

t312227 · 22 days ago

hello,

as always: imho (!)

i own a x200s ... bought it in march of 2009 =?> so its approaching 17 years ...

it was a really great device with one of the best keyboards for a small notebook. and i still use it multiple times a week for example to browse hackernews, reddit, ... or watch some video etc.

buuuut: its nearly 17 years old ... everything is starting to wear - i wouldn't invest a dime into it right now.

what do i mean by that: keyboard has faulting keys, case starts breaking at heavily stressed regions - for example around the cursor-keys -, display is (slightly) mechanically damaged, batteries are beyond usefull etc.etc. ...

just my 0.02€

t312227 commented on Qiskit open-source SDK for working with quantum computers github.com/Qiskit/qiskit... · Posted by u/thinkingemote

t312227 · a month ago

hello,

i've used it during my last job =?> its a really great project!! :+1: ;)

and its really useful not only for IBM hardware - a lot of smaller quantum-computing vendors have integrations for their hardware:

they are called qiskit-providers and are available in the community-project:

* https://github.com/qiskit-community/

sadly they are sometimes of lets call it "varying quality" depending on the vendor ;))

cheers a..z

t312227 commented on AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process guru3d.com/story/amd-ente... · Posted by u/walterbell

t312227 · 2 months ago

hello,

imho. (!)

i think this would be great!!

personally i totally understood why AMD gave up on its last attempt - the A1100 opterons - about 10 years ago in favor of the back then new ryzen architecture:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Opteron_processors...

but what i would really like to see: an ARM soc/apu on an "open"*) (!) hardware-platform similar to the existing amd64 pc hardware.

*) "open" as in: i'm able to boot whatever (vanilla) arm64 linux-distribution or other OS i want ...

i have to add: i'm personally offended by the amount of tinkering of the firmware/boot-process which is necessary to get for example the raspberry pi 5 (or 4) to boot vanilla debian/arm64 ... ;)

br, a..z

ps. even if its a bit o.T. in this context, as a reminder a link to a slightly older article about an interview with jim keller about how ISA no longer matters that much ...

"ARM or x86? ISA Doesn’t Matter"

* https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-matter

t312227 commented on Show HN: A fast, privacy-first image converter that runs in browser imageconverter.dev/... · Posted by u/wainguo

t312227 · 2 months ago

hello,

as always: imho (!)

congratulations on shipping!!

fwiw: i have to admit, i may be getting "to old" to understand this online/service hype which took over "the it world" years ago ...

create an online-service and market it with "no upload", "local", "privacy" etc...

idk ... whats the advantage over "my" image-conversion-tool which i use heavily since decades ... if i remember it correctly, since around the late 1990ties (!) ... drummroll ... meet:

ImageMagick ~ Mastering Digital Image Alchemy

* https://imagemagick.org/

its utility called "convert" does everything a "normal" person could want for image-conversion.

its FOSS, runs locally in your terminal or GUI, produces stunning results and again: no internet needed, no privacy-concerns etc...

source-code available at

* https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick

it has lots of language-integrations etc.etc.

* https://imagemagick.org/script/develop.php

just my 0.02€

ps. if i want do develop such a converter which could run locally in the browser, i would take a look at the wasm-port of imagemagick, available here:

* https://github.com/KnicKnic/WASM-ImageMagick

t312227 commented on Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/10/... · Posted by u/thomasjb

t312227 · 2 months ago

hello,

thanks for the great article!!

2 remarks from my side:

* some smartctl -a ... output would have been nice ~ i don't care if it is from "when the drives where shipped" or from any later point in time

* prices are somewhat ... aehm ... lets call them "uncompetitive" at least for where i'm at (austria, central-europe, eu)

i compared prices normalized by cost pro TB with new (!) drives from the austrian price-portal "geizhals"

* https://geizhals.at

for example: for 3,5 inches HDDs sorted by "price / TB"

* https://geizhals.at/?cat=hde7s&xf=5704_3.5%22~5717_SATA%203G...

sometimes the prices are slightly higher for the used (!) drives ... sometimes also a bit lower, but imho (!) not enough to justify buying refurbished drives over new (!) ones ...

just my 0.02€