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A 27-Year-Old Small-Town Chinese Player’s Pirated FC Childhood — Some Shared Memories in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] 7 points 2 days ago

Very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing!

Nice to read something from different cultures and their experiences.

I remember me and my cousins going to Asian markets in poland (right after the border from Germany). Parents wanted to buy cheap clothes for kids. But we were hooked on the pirated PS1 games available everywhere! Most of them did run just fine (requiring a modded PS1 of course) but some where kinda janky. Like this wrestling game that was only in French and we did not understand a thing...

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    Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS will cost €1.900 in c/technology@lemmy.world
    [–] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I really hope that the Pixel 12's will be supported again by GrapheneOS or a cheaper option will be made by Motorola. Otherwise I will have to keep my Pixel 10 with Graphene alive forever (?). I do not expect there to be a real second-hand market for this Device to get your hand on one for cheap.

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    PSA: HDMI 2.1 is working on AMD GPUs with 7.3 including VRR in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
    The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP in c/linux@programming.dev
    The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP in c/linux@programming.dev
    The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP in c/linux@programming.dev
    Observations from Running stealmybitcoin.com | Pavursec in c/technology@lemmy.world
    Schools in Six German States Can Now Opt For Nextcloud in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
    [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    Having Nextcloud does not fulfill the actual needs of a school:

    • timetables/class schedules
    • provide information about homework
    • possibility to inform school that a child is sick
    • grades for the kid
    • chat platform per class and between kids, teachers and parents

    Nextcloud is for filesharing. But filesharing is not a priority need for a school. Yes, you can try to solve this via plugins and stuff. Bit this is just trying to bend something into shape that is not meant for the job.

    Better to use a different platform actually tailored to the use case. For example edupage. But edupage has lots to improve (e.g. using in in the browser on mobile is horrible and the UI is very cluttered).

    So I don't see how this actually benefits a school.

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    The advantages of mobile Linux over AOSP in c/linux@programming.dev
    [–] 12 points 6 days ago (9 children)

    Is there like a single Linux based OS that runs at least on one phone and supports basic smartphone stuff like:

    • Calling
    • Camera
    • GPS
    • Mobile Data
    • WiFi

    All flavors of Linux I tried did fail at one point or the other. Without getting at least the basic stuff working on at least one phone all the other advantages are worthless.

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    PSA: HDMI 2.1 is working on AMD GPUs with 7.3 including VRR in c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
    cheap remote kvm in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    I have one of these on my backup Server. But about 2 out of 5 times the HDMI signal is not detected (after the Backup Server was running for a couple days) and I need to restart the Backupserver to get it working. restarting the JetKVM does not work. In comparison I had none of these issues with a NanoKVM. I don't know if it is a problem of the JetKVM or the Backup machine.

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    • cheap remote kvm in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
    [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    You could use a NanoKVM together with tailscale: https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/kvm/NanoKVM/network/tailscale.html

    These cost around 60€ (don't know the dollar price) on Aliexpress (I remember them being a lot cheaper in the past....).

    You do not need to use tailscale on the NanoKVM. You could use whatever VPN tooling your router supports to connect to your network and then to the NanoKVM.

    P.S. There was fuzz in the past about them including a small microphone that was not documented. Make of that what you want.

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    Framework announced the Framework 13 Pro with full Linux compatibility from the Start (frame.work)
     

    Framework announced the Framework 13 Pro including full Linux support right from the beginning.

    Some quick information about the Device:

    • will use Intel Core Ultra 300 (Panther-Lake)
    • updated Battery Design with (up to) 20h Battery life
    • custom designed Display Panel with Touch support (keeping the 3:2 aspect ratio)
    • LPCAMM2 for upgradable/replacable RAM without compromising on Speed/Low Power of LPDDR5X
    • milled Aluminium Unibody chassis
    • Full Linux support right from the start (including Firmware update via LVFS, Fingerprint Reader, etc.)
    • Haptic Touchpad
    • and all the repairability features Framework is known for

    You can watch their YouTube Video for a quick summary:

    I was looking for a new laptop to replace my old Lenovo Yoga 370 and initially disregarded the Framework 13 because of some downsides (low Battery Life, bad Camera, etc.) and was looking to go with one of the following devices:

    • HP Elitebook X g1a
    • the new Dell XPS 14
    • Asus Expertbook PM5 G2

    or also a MacBook pro. I am using Linux since more then 10 years and never touched MacOS at all. So I was not sure if MacOS would work for me. But this announcement made it easy: It will be a Framework 13 Pro with Intel X7 358H!

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    Tool/Website to track donations (discuss.tchncs.de)
     

    Hello everyone,

    I am curently looking for a tool/Website/something for tracking my donations to different projects. These are partially OSS projects, but could also be NGO's, organizations and stuft like that.

    What I want to achieve is set myself a monthly limit in what I want to spend in total and within this tool I want to split this amount to different projects and Organizations. Ideally there would be proposals from project lists from e.g. the EFF, FSFE, prototype Fund, sovereign tech fund, etc. and support for services like liberapay.

    Does anybody any good proposals to have a closer look at?

    I checked tools like

    But they are more designed for receivers of donations. I want something for a donations giver.

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    MCP's disregard for 40 years of RPC best practices (julsimon.medium.com)
     

    According to the Author of the Post the Model Context Protocol (MCP) disregards RPC best practices like:

    • No (enforced) type validation of inputs at compile-time
    • Mixing stateful and stateless Operations without clear labeling/separation
    • No generated consistent bindings for different languages (similar to the first point) like e.g. gRPC does
    • No tracability embedded into the Protocol
    • Relying on "yet another library" to add functionality that is baked into other RPC protocols (e.g. Authorization, generators, tracing)

    I thought it was an interesting read. We are (in our company) using MCP in a more Basic way (to access company internal ressources like Wiki's, issue trackers, etc.) and for this they work good enough. But I never thought about the consequences you might experience if you MCP in a more complex and autonomuous use case.

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    AMD is going to Skip new Feature Support for RDNA 2 and RDNA 1 starting AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 (www.computerbase.de)
     

    For non-german readers: The german online Computer Magazine "computerbase" has an article (references the original information from PCGH) which mentions that AMD will drop "Feature Support" for RDNA 2 and RDNA 1 GPU Architectures starting with AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2. They will only receive updates for critical or security related issues. Also no Game specific patches/fixes.

    I think this is a very customer un-friendly decision. Especially regarding the Handheld market with the "new" Ryzen Z2 GO and Ryzen Z2 A processors. They are (for example) used in

    • Lenovo Legion Go S
    • ROG Xbox Ally

    Especially the ROG Xbox Ally released just 2 weeks ago and it will not receive GPU feature updates. What a big downside....

    Originally posted in "Linux Gaming": https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/47968694

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    AMD is going to Skip new Feature Support for RDNA 2 and RDNA 1 starting AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 (www.computerbase.de)
     

    For non-German readers: AMD will move RDNA 2 and RDNA 1 into Legacy mode starting with AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2. Therefor these devices will only receive updates for security or other critical issues. But no new Features (e.g. FSR 4) will be added.

    I think this a very customer unfriendly decision. Especially cosnidering the use of Ryzen Z2 GO and Ryzen Z2 A in the Handheld Market used (for example) in:

    • Lenovo Legion Go S
    • ROG Ally X

    Does anybody know if it will be the same on Linux (e.g. SteamOS)? I did not find any information regarding support in the Linux Kernel Driver. But I think the situation might be the same?

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