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kieranl

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About kieranl

Systems Software Engineer at frame.work.

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    Comment #45938613

    No. But you might need a specific version of rocm built for your gpu. These are built on https://github.com/ROCm/TheRock Right now AI support on AMD is officially only on specific …

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    Comment #45862539

    I got to see this in person at pacificon a few weeks ago. Also the creator is my friend from UIUC who I consider a brilliant rf/DSP engineer. The demo was able to show and end to e…

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    Comment #45029001

    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.

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    Comment #44696647

    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…

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    Comment #35968532

    You can adjust the brightness in the bios

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    Comment #35968521

    The chassis is fully compatible with all previous framework laptops.

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    Comment #35436332

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

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    Comment #34659242

    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 …

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    Comment #32942917

    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.

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    Comment #31436476

    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 u…

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    Comment #31436338

    The power consumption of this would be too high.

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    Comment #28344712

    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.

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    Comment #26267852

    Yep! Most do not require any custom drivers.

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    Comment #26267835

    Working on it!

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    Comment #26267805

    Tigerlake supports modern standby otherwise known as S0ix. We are also testing fingerprint support - but look out for Linux guides for instructions until things get upstreamed.

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    Comment #26267051

    Yep the ISO layout has the \| key next to Z!

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    Comment #26266998

    technically possible as all 4 ports support usb-c PD, but the modules are not big enough to support any reasonable capacity. It is a path to connect something like a slice battery …

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    Comment #26266961

    Nothing that goes outside the usb/displayport standards. We have to be compatible to support the passthrough card :).

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    Comment #26264791

    We have no no fan/low fan support on our firmware backlog - basically reducing the SOC TDP to the point where the laptop becomes a passively cooled and does not require the fan. So…

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    Comment #26264748

    We support USB4 - which has similar performance as thunderbolt 3. Multiple display pipes + USB + PCIE tunneling. It also supports 40gbps of aggregate bandwidth per port. Tigerlake …

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    Comment #26264360

    We will open up the expansion card spec and share reference designs to enable partners and the community to build their own! I want it to be open as much as you do.

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    Comment #26264297

    Kieran from Framework Here - Using it as my main machine for development running Ubuntu 20.04 right now. The main tweak is running a mainline kernel with some distributions as Tige…