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  • Connecting them in parallel means the solar panel's 24V output gets mixed with the car's 12V systems. It's not uncommon for car systems to run a little high like 14-16V to charge the battery but 24V is definitely quite on the high side. That might make the lead acid battery explode and will probably damage other systems as well.

    This might be fixable with diodes but I feel like that's probably still not ideal to try to mix 12V with 24V on the same circuit. I would put a switch and have it be like a toggle kind of deal. Or maybe some connector that toggles a switch on insertion similar to headphone jacks that disables the speakers when plugged in.


  • What kind of filename do they have? How big are they?

    My guess would be that they're Android thumbnail files or some sort of hidden metadata file. Possibly some raw jpeg because all the parameters are expected to be fixed size so they didn't bother with the header. Or it's a custom header.

    But even then, that's a lot of zeros for an image format.

    Does it seem to have a JPEG header later in the file? It could be a header followed by a normal JPEG file too.


  • I have one (FW 16 AMD), I don't have any complaints so far. It comes mostly assembled but you put your RAM, SSD, screen bezel, keyboard, touchpad and all the port modules yourself. The machine is well built and genuinely very easy to work with. You can swap the keyboard and touchpad without touching a screw.

    For the most part it seems like they're holding up to their promise, you can buy a new motherboard for a CPU upgrade, remove the old one, put the new one in, and you're good to go with the rest of your existing stuff (as long as it's compatible, if the new board needs DDR5 instead of DDR4 then you need new RAM too but that's expected). So far everything I've disassembled as part of the firs assembly has been a breeze. It's a very nice laptop to work on and swap parts that's for sure. You get the assurance that you can swap the battery, input modules, IO modules for the foreseeable future.

    Where I've been disappointed is the third-party ecosystem for it is not what I was hoping it would be, there's not a lot of third-party modules for it. But the designs are all open-sourced so you can 3D print parts for it. Maybe in the future we'll have more modules. Overall though, it's not like you could even think about that on any other laptop brands, you get the laptop and it's what it'll be for the rest of its life.

    Runs great on Linux, most of the company actually uses Linux so support for Linux is very good. All of the models will run Minecraft very well, Minecraft in particular has been known to run significantly better on Linux to begin with, especially on Intel graphics where the OpenGL drivers on Windows are terrible.



  • I would trust them more than Microsoft because at least they would actually store it encrypted safely and not just basic ACLs that are easy to bypass.

    Even with a root shell on macOS you can't bypass certain things like access to the camera for example. You'd have to work way harder to access recall data, not in a way that malware can trivially access.

    I still wouldn't use it though, because I think the whole thing is dumb and I don't need my computer to spy on me so I can remember what I did yesterday. I have browser/shell history for that.


  • Windows 95 and Macintosh LC, elementary school computer lab stuff. My grandpa had a Windows 3.1 IBM PS/2. Those were all pretty old and practically obsolete computers when I used those, 98SE was out and ME was right around the corner.

    My very first Linux distribution experience was Mandrake Linux I believe version 9 or something like that. Didn't last that long though, I revisited Linux later with Ubuntu 7.04 which is when I actually switched to Linux full time.

    ArchLinux since 2011. Still running that install to this day!




  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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    3 months ago

    @jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu Turns out the issue was entirely on my end, I can't see your comment from my instance because of the database work I had to do to make it work so replying directly.

    It appears to be working correctly now, Lemmy's fine.