FPSwithaWacomTablet

Just to buck the trend, here are meh bigg keys. Beta tested by a certified pro:

What happened to having a second USB-C port for a headphone jack?

Cool. Finally catching up with Odroid and Tinkerboard. But with much more software support. I think.

Don't remind me:

I might as well make an iScroll... A phone that rolls up instead of folding.

It sets the wrong expectations for unreleased games. A discounted launch price is going to hinder game sales at full price later.

Pretty sure the 8-core is just there to sic customers onto the cheaper quad-core options. People tend to work their way downwards from the "best" option.

Soo... Another bus arbiter for PCI Express? Or are we talking more like a PCI Express network where each device is attached to a networked CXL node?

Home automation, I can do. Online service to handle home automation, no. While IFTTT is great, I would prefer local control. Nothing wrong with running a Pi image with a localized, NodeRED-based IoT network. I for "Intranet", for "Intranet of Things".

DS4 for windows ftw

I personally am a fan of the XboneS joysticks, but prefer the DS4 controller overall for its ergonomics. So I ordered spare XBoneS joysticks and swapped them onto my DS4 controller. They both use the same joystick pot so you can swap sticks around.

I started actually with 3D printing my cases. Here's one that used a 3D printed case: I also started out with handwiring, but eventually decided to design PCBs for it using KiCAD. Ordering PCBs online has become quite easy, so it shouldn't discourage you. It is also relatively cheap (around $20) for 10 pcs of a small 4x4 keypad. But at that rate you are delving into geekhack territory.

Created an 8-button keypad with PCB plates powered by a Pro Micro, with single-colour backlighting support and underglow LEDs via LED strips. Keys are currently programmed using Arduino, as I haven't figured out TMK/QMK yet. Current keypad is rocking Kailh BOX Dark Yellows, essentially Blacks but less scratchy. Also features a famous anime character on the bottom plate, though I can try out other characters. Enjoy

Pixel Book looks like dual-boot Linux heaven. Looks.

Welcome to systems-on-chip, where the embedded space has been enjoying it for years. Considering that Xilinx and Intel-Altera have been strapping ARM CPUs beside their FPGAs (Zynq and Cyclone SoCs come to mind), I don't see a conceptual issue strapping a Linux-capable CPU right beside a full nVidia GPU through some proprietary interconnect. Heck, nVidia's Tegra CPU might even play a role in such a possible development. (I am in a uni course where we play around with such SoCs; check the Terasic DE1-SoC evaluation board for more info).

Here I am watching how to make C less dangerous to the kernel. No OS would be born without it:

Uhh, USB over Thunderbolt? Have they fixed Thunderbolt's IOMMU issue?

You can take the x86 instruction set (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings), and implement your own CPU datapath, say in Verilog/VHDL. Heck you could do it in RISC if you really wanted to. If Intel did that to their chips while maintaining binary compatibility, I wouldn't doubt it so much either.

I recall hearing from an IBM conference recently that they have tiny explosives on the PSU cables, since even turning off a server PSU is too slow for an emergency shutdown. Usually found on their recent IBM mainframes.

This came to mind:

I am looking at you, Love Live.... I mean for a music/rhythm game, there's a LOT of gatcha elements in it. And the fact that you consume "hearts" (think tokens in arcade games) and face a cooldown timer when playing a song really dampens the experience without shelling more cash. It's decent for a rhythm game, but I'd rather pay once for song packs rather than pay for "hearts" everytime I play a song.

$43k builds you a cluster of computers.

From my random talks with friends, I recall: - Vacuum tubes were produced for radar detection and code-breaking, powering primitive computers. That led to computers that we use today. It is also what gave rise to Silicon Valley, contrary to popular belief. - Silicon quality used to be terrible until there was a military incentive to improve them, mainly for missile guidance systems. Now CPUs can be mass produced better than ever. - ARPANET was a failsafe network in case of nuclear war. We now enjoy it as the Internet. - HUD on pilot helmets were a thing long before Hololens, which is a primitive form of augmented reality. These massive technologies we enjoy were initially funded through government contracts with military incentive. This boosts a company's R&D capability, producing IP that it can later use for commercial purposes. Only then can those companies can sell those technologies to civilians like us, after declassification. As to the employees' issue with Microsoft agreeing to a military contract, I think would be detrimental to us getting to enjoy VR/AR in the future.

Oh damn, my keypad is called the 8-Pack...

Damn... These oughta be Chromebooks at this point. Too much power IMO.