Currently getting the run around between #eon and #nationalgrid trying to work out who is responsible for the fact their is no #wan coverage for #smart meters where I live. Of the 2.5MWh the household has consumed from the grid this year alone I've sent 1.5MWh back into the grid. There are only so many free showers I can have by diverting the spare energy into my hot water tank!
@stsquad It might be worth looking at exactly which kit you have; I do see something that says in some areas they default to the WAN stuff, I guess expecting most of Wales to have bad mobile coverage; but if you know you actually do have good mobile coverage I don't know if you can ask to use it.
As I knew I was on holiday for soft freeze I got all my #qemu maintainer PRs in early for 9.0. It is now released to the wild. The big #arm64 update is FEAT_NV2 emulation as well as a number of enhancements to various board models (and some deprecations of the older unloved code). For #tcg#plugins we now support reading register values as well as a new thread-safe inline ops API. The #gdbstub also saw a number of tweaks. More to come for 9.1 and the tree is now open ;-) https://www.qemu.org/2024/04/23/qemu-9-0-0/
The #qemu 8.2 release has been tagged. For #Arm#emulation this release brings FEAT_EPAC, FEAT_FPAC, FEAT_FPACCOMBINE, FEAT_HBC, FEAT_HPMN0, FEAT_MOPS, FEAT_PACQARMA3, FEAT_PAuth2 and FEAT_TIDCP1 as well as some new baseline CPU models for cortex-a710 and neoverse-n2. See the changelog for details: https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/8.2
@stsquad AI stuff is interesting; I've played with the free ChatGPT's & Bard; they seem to be pretty good at explaining or searching for stuff;and yes I've seen others suggest use for review. That arm version conversion you mention is impressive; you can't blame it getting unstuck on an MMU! I'm tempted to try a local run; I'm being told that the llama.cpp runs OK on a 32G RAM host even without GPU. I find the way the parameter types shrink from f32->f16->f8->i4 fascinating architecturally.
Following a recommendation from @Edent the wife and I finished Mrs. Davis last night. It's certainly the most inventive show I've watched this year combining #ai, #faith, #parenting with friendship and #ponies. There is even random Shohreh Aghdashloo which is always a bonus. Well worth the watch if that intrigues you.
After ten years I've finally decided its time to upgrade the work machine. It's mostly driven by the fact I'm building bigger and bigger things now (kernel + full rootfs, android) but I've also taken the opportunity to move from a 2 to 3 monitor setup. It's arrived now so tomorrow is going to be a day on cleaning, unpacking and re-arranging my work environment.
@penguin42 yeah this is where tooling helps. #patchew helps tame the mess of searching your email feed to find series missing reviews.
When I talk about line by line I mean at the commit level. In most forges I end up reviewing stuff on the PR diff view which is fine if PRs are small and self contained. We do suffer somewhat in #qemu by having some mega-cleanup series which is a lot to wade through.
@stsquad Yes, the forges seem to be quite opinionated about whether you should be working at PR or commit level; which is a shame since it varies by task. Geritt is quite nice at the individual commit level but has very little at a PR layer. I find Gitlab the opposite - flexibility would be nice. I didn't find patchew helped me that much.
@stsquad@hrw I'm finding for close work on a bench I'm going to need something; but there again I'm having to hold books futher away, but there again if I lean back in my chair I find I'm a bit far from my monitor. Hmm - sigh we'll see; I really need to go and get something sorted.
@penguin42@stsquad@hrw I have desk varifocals.
Focus point goes from screen to keyboard.
Fantastic when I'm working, absolutely sucks when I go to the loo.
I don't understand why the #whatsapp procedure for migrating between #ios and #android devices can't be as simple as creating a zip file in #icloud and then just copying it into #googledrive. The lock-in effects are great.
Having watched the first episode of the new season of #foundation I can only conclude Lee Pace has a contractual agreement for a certain number of shirt-off minutes per episode. If you've done the work I guess you want to flaunt it 🤣