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Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by shrubby »

echelon wrote: post #178
SillyUsername wrote: post #158

I did this but with a dedicated machine for the Silicon Motion sm750 GPU. A budget single HDMI output GPU card for servers and a max resolution of 1080p. It is based on an older VGA/DVI version of the same hardware. I'm still testing but oh wow. My new driver now works with my ultra wide 21:9 ratio at 2048x864, it also manages 2048x1152. The driver works well, and now has full DRM and DKMS support. It also runs on mo…

This is so neat. This is like Star Wars or Fullmetal Alchemist where we can just hack everything around us like magic or alchemy. When the SOTA robots from Unitree get here, we'll be able to use LLMs to just dump and decompile their entire brains. We'll fine tune them to obey us instead. Everything hardware belongs to us now. This programmable sand magic might undo big tech's grip on us all. We can mutate the world a…

When do the locked old apple pads open up for Linux?

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by yard2010 »

echelon wrote: post #178
SillyUsername wrote: post #158

I did this but with a dedicated machine for the Silicon Motion sm750 GPU. A budget single HDMI output GPU card for servers and a max resolution of 1080p. It is based on an older VGA/DVI version of the same hardware. I'm still testing but oh wow. My new driver now works with my ultra wide 21:9 ratio at 2048x864, it also manages 2048x1152. The driver works well, and now has full DRM and DKMS support. It also runs on mo…

This is so neat. This is like Star Wars or Fullmetal Alchemist where we can just hack everything around us like magic or alchemy. When the SOTA robots from Unitree get here, we'll be able to use LLMs to just dump and decompile their entire brains. We'll fine tune them to obey us instead. Everything hardware belongs to us now. This programmable sand magic might undo big tech's grip on us all. We can mutate the world a…

I love this comment so much. It really feels like the big tech is losing the grip. In Rick and Morty, the way Rick is using tech to amuse himself always inspires me. I could only dream of doing anything related a few years back when I watched it. Yesterday I was reverse engineering a cheap but good label maker from AliExpress to write my own app printing labels the way I want them with the fonts and graphics I like with no cancer ads like on the official version. Maybe in a few years I could build a portal gun or turn myself into a pickle, who knows. Fun times!

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by touchme »

I bought a Evnia 27M2N8500 and has been having issues too with the Pixel cleaning, sometimes i turn it on and it says its been 4 hours, or simply never show it the whole day... I'm not brave enough to brick the 700 euros monitor :( for the rest of the things i own i pretty much did the same as most of the OG software is just bloat, 1gb to just control pc fans is evil.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by darkwater »

nabilt wrote: post #169
fwipsy wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if an AI could do it without an oscilloscope, probably a human could too.

I had claude write an mcp server to talk to my scope since most are connected over Ethernet. It was pretty fun. https://netliststudio.com/articles/2026/02/23/claude-oscillo...

Now exploit the oscilloscope to run Doom on it

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by hypfer »

yard2010 wrote: post #252
echelon wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is so neat. This is like Star Wars or Fullmetal Alchemist where we can just hack everything around us like magic or alchemy. When the SOTA robots from Unitree get here, we'll be able to use LLMs to just dump and decompile their entire brains. We'll fine tune them to obey us instead. Everything hardware belongs to us now. This programmable sand magic might undo big tech's grip on us all. We can mutate the world a…

I love this comment so much. It really feels like the big tech is losing the grip. In Rick and Morty, the way Rick is using tech to amuse himself always inspires me. I could only dream of doing anything related a few years back when I watched it. Yesterday I was reverse engineering a cheap but good label maker from AliExpress to write my own app printing labels the way I want them with the fonts and graphics I like w…

Rick is the smartest man in the universe though.

Using LLMs to do this stuff is more like using a gadget built by the guy - not like being the guy.

Mortyposting on main

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by cromka »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #98

I guess there is this dream that AI will help us finally close the Linux driver gap, and maybe even conquer the android phone closed hardware driver conundrum making almost every phone locked down. One can hope.

I definitely managed to get Linux running in full on my Xiaomi Pad tablet, each and every feature of it! Writing drivers is a breeze now, what remains difficult is upstreaming them.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by aaronmdjones »

avidiax wrote: post #197
ryandrake wrote: post #113

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It's not even that clever, really. The camera power rail must be physically close to the camera, so it's trivial to hang an LED off it. A device manufacturer has to go out of their way to make it so the LED and camera function are independent, and I'm sure many do, for the worst reasons you can possibly think of.

It could be a typical design that the camera and LED always have power, and the LED is switchable. Giving the camera plus LED a separate power supply means that the camera has to boot or come online, which maybe increases the dwell time. And the camera is not visible on the USB bus when powered off. I think there's more engineering to Apple's design than it first seems.

The thing visible on the bus is the interface chip, not the sensor. Most cameras which I've seen hardwire their activity LEDs (it is impossible to grab stills or record video without lighting up the LED) do so by connecting the activity LED to the sensor power rail. With the sensor powered off, the device is still visible on the bus but you get no usable image data.

Re: Everything I own, owned

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Post by pjc50 »

echelon wrote: post #178
SillyUsername wrote: post #158

I did this but with a dedicated machine for the Silicon Motion sm750 GPU. A budget single HDMI output GPU card for servers and a max resolution of 1080p. It is based on an older VGA/DVI version of the same hardware. I'm still testing but oh wow. My new driver now works with my ultra wide 21:9 ratio at 2048x864, it also manages 2048x1152. The driver works well, and now has full DRM and DKMS support. It also runs on mo…

This is so neat. This is like Star Wars or Fullmetal Alchemist where we can just hack everything around us like magic or alchemy. When the SOTA robots from Unitree get here, we'll be able to use LLMs to just dump and decompile their entire brains. We'll fine tune them to obey us instead. Everything hardware belongs to us now. This programmable sand magic might undo big tech's grip on us all. We can mutate the world a…

My two thoughts are:

- this is great

- this is an incredibly unstable equilibrium, like a lot of things related to the internet, because other actors haven't yet figured out how to do this at scale

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