Several years ago, I purchased a Clevo N151CU laptop with the idea that I'd gradually upgrade the RAM, storage, and other bits. After my keyboard failed, I found it difficult to find replacement parts. The whole point of the Framework laptop is that it is specifically designed to be modular. It come in kit form, […]
Folks, please answer this question as if I were a complete #hardware nitwit, because I really am.
My trusted Razer Kiyo USB #webcam appears to be in its death throes. It looks like it's getting detected just fine, and I can use it for about two seconds, at which point it freezes and appears to upset all my USB devices (?), and becomes unusable. It does this on two different machines, so I think it is the camera, as opposed to a local USB problem.
@xahteiwi is it usb 3? They use 9 pins. The five other pins are behind the first row. Did something get in there? If you do not start video, does it also wreck havoc? Can you rule out that the cable is broken? Does it behave different depending from where the cable goes into the camera?
@doboprobodyne is openbsd generally the one to run on a laptop?
and like, how do you find it as far as 'all the devices i wanted more or less work' factor?
i have a thinkpad carbon x1 here that was running linux but maybe would be cool with bsd?
Sadly my daily driver is still Linux due to wanting a couple of programs that aren't yet on #openbsd. Also because I want to follow novice tutorials for some things and having a very widely-used flavour of linux makes it much easier for me. Most of what I use for work can be accessed via a browser though, and I believe in learning by doing, so I will try to migrate to or towards #openbsd when I get time.
I'd say try it on an old thinkpad and see how it feels!
Had my head down labouring away for a couple of hours wiring & prototyping a bit of a circuit I needed to verify is possible. Of course I've already designed and fabbed the board that relies on it.
A bit ahead of myself I suppose, but I'm pleased to say it's a usable design. Just maybe a little backwards getting there – lol.
"It's time for another awesome software defined ISA card using a Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040: The PicoMEM. This card does far more than just add memory to the computer, it adds just about everything you might possibly need for your old 8088/8086 based system!" - Adrian's Digital Basement
Zur #Nachhaltigkeit von #Hardware trägt Langlebigkeit und daher auch deren Reparierbarkeit wesentlich bei. In Frankreich müssen Geräte-Hersteller auf der Verpackung eine Reparierbarkeitsnote angeben. Ersatzteile und Reparaturanleitungen müssen z.B. mind. 7 Jahre verfügbar gemacht werden, um eine gute Note beim "Indice de réparabilité" zu erreichen. So auch beim #Smartphone.
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Oder was fehlt uns sonst, um mehr Bewusstsein für das wachsende Nachhaltigkeitsproblem in der Digitalisierung hinsichtlich #Smart-Geräte und #Hardware insgesamt zu erlangen?
@Poslovitch niveau batterie je sens qu'il ya une légère douille mais franchement ça passe ! Et on peut pas se plaindre c'est gratuit mdr...
Après visiblement c'est pas si grave, je verrais bien la gravité du truc à la tête de mon prof de SNT quand il le verra. Heureusement qu'il m'aime bien...
@Taffer FWIW, I've had a Synology DS420+ for nearly 4 years now, populated with 4 drives.
The initial cost was admittedly significant, not going to lie, but to date I've had (almost) no complaints about it.
The DSM software is decent, easy to maintain, and everything Just Works. Could I have made my own system for less? Absolutely. But for a very neatly presented, self-contained, reliable system it works very well.
Since I can't stop thinking about expanding my NAS (I've got a 2-bay NAS now, apparently my brain "needs" a 4+ bay NAS), so I'm looking into building one from parts vs just buying the 4-bay Synology.
Finding small cases with four drive bays is apparently hard; they've all got 1-2 bays and a huge amount of space for a massive GPU because only gamers buy them?
Hey, you know what? For around the cost of upgrading to a 4-bay NAS, I can just double the storage in my existing hardware. And I can just plug in the new drives (one at a time) and repair the volume.
@llamasoft_ox WOW .. so it's part of a terminal that was connected to the CDC-6000 ? .. Make sense .. I am starting to suspect to remember where all this comes from .. but at this point I won't / can't say .. sadly I think all that stuff been really thrashed and destroyed very long ago 😢 NOT by me of course, and this was part of a dumpster diving ..
Long-shot to end all long-shots but: does anybody know anything about USB on raw Xilinx transceivers (e.g. without a PHY)? Officially it's unsupported, occasionally people say they've gotten it to work and more details on exactly how would be incredibly useful
Mam sprawę do ludzi zajmujących się sprzętem, ewentualnie do jakiś adminów.
Jakie są szanse, że dysk SSD(M.2)/SSD(SATA) będzie w stanie poprawnie działać na lapku, kóry teoretycznie nie obsługuje takiej wielkości dysków? Obecnie mam SSD(M.2) 1TB, ale muszę kupić coś dużo większego i pomyślałem o SSD 4TB. Wszystko pięknie, ale wg ulotki producenta (z okolic 2018/2019), ten laptop jest w stanie uciągnąć max 2TB. Zarówno na złączu M.2, jak i SATA.
Dzwoniłem do pomocy technicznej producenta, ale trafiłem na gościa, który brzmiał jakby wczoraj za bardzo zabalował i jeszcze kac go trzymał, a co za tym idzie, jedyne co się dowiedziałem, to żeby patrzeć na to, co jest napisane w ulotce.
What's the alternative to Tom's Hardware for trustworthy #hardware reviews and benchmarks these days? I heard they got bought by a crappy overlord and are less than trustworthy now-a-days.
