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I also have an ES47 (running Linux)! Would you send me an email to my username at gmail? I've been working on a remote management tool for the ES47 that allows controlling the fan …

I think they're super uncommon in the west. I think they're also super useless, to be honest. Incredibly slow. Linux support continued to degrade the entire time I owned mine. The …

I suspect you mean glibc.

I've loaded the PROM in Ghidra. The ability to decompile to C is great. I looked at some particular parts of the PROM that took a while to understand to see if I could have underst…

Thanks! I'll give Ghidra a try!

Yes, I submitted it as "PROM". I have no idea why it has been changed.

Alpha 21264 is out-of-order.

The judgement ( https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/COPA-v-W... ) very clearly demonstates the truth of Brandolini's Law: > The amount of energy needed to refute bu…

> Burnout is your brain giving up because it doesn’t think the benefit is worth the effort anymore. If you don’t have a purpose for what you are doing all your brain will do is obs…

Yes, it's still used in the Intel 3D drivers in Mesa (at least).

On an Intel GPU, you can check the 'Video' percentage in `sudo intel_gpu_top` (from the igt-gpu-tools package) while playing a video.

That's right. "Software decoding" means the decoding algorithms run on the CPU. (As opposed to "hardware decoding" which typically means the work is done by some fixed-function vid…

> Firefox still has no support for hardware video decode on Linux. That's not true at all. See: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/firefox-115-intel-gpu-vi... https://www.phoronix…

Are you familiar with source-based distributions? I'm not rebuilding specifically for this one potential optimization.

I actually do. I just said -march=tigerlake to make it clear what CPU family the compiler was targeting.

Right. Since I'm using Gentoo and compiling my whole system with `-march=tigerlake`, the compiler is free to use AVX-512. My question is just... does it? (And does it use AVX-512 p…

I am a happy owner of a Tigerlake (Intel 11th Gen) Framework laptop. I've considered upgrading to a 12th or 13th Gen motherboard, and while I have no doubt they'd be great for me a…

I don't have enough details to debug, but something I discovered just the other day might be helpful if you're building the kernel. For kernel builds, you have to specify CC= after…

This is very interesting. I'm going to be excited to see what neat things can be done with it.

Signs a couple of different things: most notably they're signals from the catcher to the pitcher suggesting a pitch for him to throw, but also there can be signs from the dugout to…

Yeah, I remember when I got mine—I wasn't expecting anything, and I kinda wished they hadn't given me anything at all if they were going to just give $25. Felt pretty cheap.

Reportedly it's not just the CEO... - No merit salary increases or promotions - No more quarterly bonuses - No more employee recognition programs (e.g. no more $25 gift card for wo…

dosdude1 is awesome. He replaced the BGA CPU in my iMac G4 with a 1.7 GHz MC7448 ( https://mattst88.com/computers/imacg4/ ) and made a video about the process: https://www.youtube.…

https://mattst88.com/ A blog I rarely write, and some pages about my collection of pet computers.