I love this. T14 gen 7 was the first NB I a actually bought for myself, and it's great to know that USB-C ports can just be replaced that easilly without soldering and that it was designed from the start with repairability in mind. Non-A USB ports is something that always ends up failing.

> it's great to know that USB-C ports can just be replaced that easilly

Yes exactly! To me it's surely the biggest win. It's very easy to break them when the power chord is plugged in. I'm really pleased that we will now be able to fix them without having to change the whole motherboard (which surely very few people do because of expansive and how ridiculous it sounds)

No, we realize US americans elected gerontoidiot Trump, and we constnantly ask ourselves what the actual fuck after every third act of this senile imbecile. Do you not have young (like at least < 60) people who can still actually think critically, have strategy, hold ideas for more than 30 seconds. Are you impressed by senility? Why do you support someone who attacks european countries frequently just on the basis of whimsy shit like not wanting to go with you into wars of aggression agaisnt third countries, like you attacked Spain most recently? What the actual fuck?

That people think in terms of good/vs/evil and that US will somehow come out of this as a liked country that did good is beyond me. The constant attempts at painting some morals or grand strategy over the constant random unhinged acts of senile imbecile that gets bootlicked by everyone around him just comes out as insane.

That's what at least this european thinks of US, yeah. :)

Unhinged country with unhinged lunatic at the top, all this is. That's what americans should be thinking hard about, not about another new ways to rationalize his insanity and insane criminal acts.

BTW, does anyone have some pointers to where one can find an oldish in-order Cortex-A core (like A53) in verilog RTL form? I know ARM must give this out to companies that implement ARM based SoCs for eg. purpose of validation on FPGA.

So far I've only found various M cores online. It would be fun to have something to experiment with on a cheapish FPGA like Kintex XC7-K480T, that may have enough resources for some in-order A core, and can be had for $50 or so.

You're going to have a much better time finding RiscV cores.

Yeah, I don't need help with that one. :)

Arm lawyers have the RTL locked down tight. If you find it, it means you are already dead.

LOL

Lines were and are always weird, all the time. Americans killing 150 girls yesterday in a school, just a footnote in the news, already gone today. Some rando killing 10 people in a university in my country, endless discussion, politicians, punduits all up in arms spewing their opinions for months, discussing it to no end. Only difference? I don't know. I don't know almost anyone in my country, they're all as foreign to me as some girls in Iran. There's no difference to me.

There's very little sense to me in searching for meaning in any of this. It just is, people are that way. There are no lines and boundaries based on anything but just whims.

It may even be a good thing, from a PoV of learning resiliency and adaptation to supply chain changes. They probably ended up very hard to disrupt.

I've seen an Orange Pi 5+ in a drone, which I wrote the upstream DTS for conincidentally, Raspberry Pi, etc.

Despite Opi5+ having sophisticated ISP and camera interfaces, they just used some USB/analog camera capture card. Probably because if you're using generic interface that just works, you can just throw in any SBC in that has some so-so working Linux build somewhere so that USB and gpio/i2c/spi or any of these generic interfaces work on and you're golden. Your other software can then stay the same, because everything that uses these interfaces from userspace is well abstracted away from platform details by Linux and works identically across all SBCs.

Raspberry Pi driven drone. What a life.

Nothing else, really.

It all starts with open formats, open data and open apis. Unless this is somehow guaranteed by law for interaction with public entities, it's going to be hard for any FOSS projects or independent apps/developers.

Without that, we have a situation where almost every bank tries to shove their stupid android app in your face so they can more easily track you. They also force you to their authentication mechanisms, instead of using already working ones. There are no APIs that are usable, only if you have $$$$$. They'll just ignore you if you're a regular client and want to download your data automatically via a reasonable mechanism, etc.

If only banks can write apps and have closed API, they will

Support for open formats and data is also question of policy.

Am I saying something else?

Better at siphoning out all the sensitive info, maybe.

You support organization that's on a UN international blacklist of organizations that intentionally harm children. Have some shame.

I will never forget the thousands of little children that IDF burned to death, cut off their legs and arms, separate they heads or just degutted. Bleh.

IDF taught me that you can cut off both legs of a toddler at the hips and it will still live and scream, and will not die instantly from shock and hypovolemia.

Fuck scum that support this organization for whatever reason.

It's unreasonable approach to blame UN and by that largely the whole world for Israel's own failings, like the whole failed approach to build a state based on brutal violence against other inhabitants of the land they stole. All they managed is to build a failed distopia that just brutalizes all its neighbors and non-citizen subjects.

You google for images of "israeli" or whatever and all you get is endless images of armed nutjobs. What other normal nation has that? Like no culture but blue/white flag and gun worship can be discerned from a simple generic search like that.