[–] 15 points 2 months ago

Almalinux is used for desktop computers (along with RHEL and windows). This is about the control system computers, which have dedicated hardware for various tasks. It was planned for them to also use almalinux, but they dropped support for a bunch of old hardware architectures. This made Alma unsuitable as some of these custom computers just would not be supported. The cost/risk of redesigning just would not make sense. Hence: plan B, which is Debian and its many supported hardware architectures.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's not a matter of "him" personally. Permissive license allow for a work to be taken and redistributed by other entities, without enforcing them to release their changes. This creates a one way relationship that is generally detrimental to the open source ecosystem, allowing work to be stolen away from the public. That being said, choosing a license is situational, and a permissive one can be a great choice in certain instances. For that particular case, I don't see much benefit to having a permissive licence.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    I believe it does. Weakly reciprocal license like LGPL is not equivalent as a permissive license like Apache. I see two main things on the top of my head:

    1. This ensure that no one can license wash ffmpg and e.g. use rockchip's repo to distribute their own private product based on ffmpeg without publishing their changes
    2. It ensures proper attribution of the work, which can have an impact on the developer's careers and ffmpeg as a whole.

    On top of this, it really should not be complicated to license this code properly (unless rockchip wants to allow point 1, which is illegal)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thank you for the pics and explanations! Seeing such big power transformer in a wooden box terrifies me, probably more than it should.

    For the ADC, I'm not too sure what you could use. The easy way would be to use ZMPT101B, and live with the fact that you would be using 1% of its range (you would need to check its resolution). Maybe you could also try to rectify it using an ideal diode IC.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    The fact that a capacitor is marked with a 1000V label does not necessarily mean that 1000V are present on its terminal (but you should use caution). I don't think the voltage makes it out of the realm of electronics.

    It's quite hard to answer your question, as the board is quite dirty and you provided a single picture. You could check for continuity and capacitance value with a multimeter

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