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dogben

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    Comment #44369230

    fixed link: https://skyviewer.app/embed?target=187.04483+7.00898&fov=0.2...

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    Comment #44365345

    something red https://skyviewer.app/embed?target=186.82033+8.25479&fov=0.0...

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    Comment #44283397

    They may want to make absolutly sure no wifi signal emit from the device. Turning it off in the setup page is definitely not enough. The wifi chip may emit signal during boot. The …

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    Comment #43504143

    PS/2 keyboard/mouse are interrupt driven which saves power on laptops. While USB ones are polling based which require controllers running all the time.

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    Comment #43356923

    I believe that's power saving in action. A single operation at idle is slow, the drive needs time to wake from idle.

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    Comment #41808627

    There were instruments dropped by parachute.

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    Comment #41550476

    you can just blacklist amdgpu and use EFI/VGA buffer provided by bios

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    Comment #40715507

    A simple magic is to set system language and locale to Russian.

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    Comment #40494010

    Thanks. So that 30W lamp in another comment might be a safty hazzard if someone in close range stares at it and the beam is tightly focused.

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    Comment #40493686

    Is high power IR lamp safe for eyes?

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    Comment #40391639

    > This orbital velocity at the surface of the earth is some 40,320 km/sec. Is that a typo? Orbital velocity on the surface should be 7.9km/s.

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    Comment #39737747

    And it's relatively easy to make large pure silicon single crystal.

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    Comment #37964128

    My Firefox+dwm combo works. The 0x1b on my status bar is shown as a Treble clef. Maybe it's a font thing?

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    Comment #37842252

    if(!socks5_resolve_local && hostname_len > 255) { socks5_resolve_local = TRUE; } This is really a bad idea. For people who use anti-censorship tool to protect privacy, this can lea…

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    Comment #37751052

    武侠小说 may be more appropriate.

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    Comment #37556923

    The most accurate IBM PC emulator is in rust. https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc

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    Comment #36533618

    This makes me feel very uncomfortable.

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    Comment #36017690

    Looks like SMM is still there.

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    Comment #35993753

    I don't think it has negative ion generator. I guess the fan itself can generate ions, that's why aircraft have static dischargers.

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    Comment #35993640

    It's interior. No ventilation. I guess it's ionizing the air and bringing radioactive dust particles to the whole room. The radiation level is still very low so I'm not worried.

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    Comment #35992696

    My geiger counter activity goes up when air conditioner is working. Never figured out why. This could be a good explanation.

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    Comment #35804727

    It works with --enable-unsafe-webgpu --enable-features=Vulkan command line arguments. Not very stable though.

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    Comment #35194870

    Quectel EG25-G is running linux https://nns.ee/blog/2021/04/01/modem-blog.html

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    Comment #34391108

    They do support OpenCL. You only need their closed source user space library libamdocl*.so and libamd_comgr.so to use it.

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    Comment #33894618

    Macro magic and compiler extensions. Example: https://lwn.net/Articles/750306/