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[#] Wed Aug 24 2022 17:43:44 EDT from Nurb432

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So v2 board for Starfive is out on kick-starter and samples have already been shipped.  Like an idiot i got in on the early bird special, shipping in November.

Like i need another dust collector...  



[#] Thu Aug 25 2022 17:13:48 EDT from Nurb432

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Well i guess not November for me.... They just announced the 8 GB early bird, shipping in December.  Originally that was only going to be an option on the 'release' boards.

Everyone is changing their pledge, everyone wanted 8 GB instead of 4, but none of us wanted to wait 8 months.. its already been over a year..

Wed Aug 24 2022 05:43:44 PM EDT from Nurb432

So v2 board for Starfive is out on kick-starter and samples have already been shipped.  Like an idiot i got in on the early bird special, shipping in November.

Like i need another dust collector...  



 



[#] Mon Sep 05 2022 09:57:34 EDT from Nurb432

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Cool, looks like both my RK3588 that i reserved back in early January, and the v2 Risc-V may arrive about the same time. Merry Xmas for me.



[#] Tue Sep 06 2022 09:16:21 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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I was doing stuff in the late 80s and early 90s on the plant floor
with 8031s, its amazing how far that world has come. Both in
power/features and they are basically throwaway cost now.  I

Even the simplest of terminals needs a microprocessor. I fondly recall the Z-19 (or H-19) terminal, and it is so weird to know (now, as I did not know then) that the terminal used the same Z-80 processor as the CP/M machine to which it was attached.

[#] Wed Sep 21 2022 18:42:46 EDT from Nurb432

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This could fall under "rant" or "stupid things i did this week":

 

 

Man i wish i was not an idiot. New RK3588 box came out. I ran over to order it on Tuesday. it shipped next day. To arrive next Monday.  Went to download the drivers and stuff ahead of time, *wait, its a RK3399 ?!?!?!*  i got the wrong model number and bought the previous chip.. arrgh.   Nothing wrong with an RK3399 and i have always liked the chip but i have 3.. ( not including 3 laptops.. ).

 

 



[#] Thu Sep 22 2022 18:24:31 EDT from Nurb432

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Rumor is that Samsung may buy ARM.  If they do, now you know why NVIDIA didnt get it. Politics. 

I think that i would rather have seen NVIDIA get it than Samsung.



[#] Sat Sep 24 2022 10:45:16 EDT from Nurb432

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it arrived the next day..  And to make it worse, apparently i overpaid by about 40 bucks.

( but trying to ship a single item back to china.. not worth the cost )



[#] Mon Sep 26 2022 18:22:23 EDT from Nurb432

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I take it back. only 20 bucks, the shipping price.  ( amazon price i saw was for the non-pro, pro is ~20 bucks more, which is about right )

Still annoys the hell out of me, buying something i dont want or need.  I stopped buying 'toys/dust collectors'. 



[#] Fri Oct 07 2022 18:48:12 EDT from Nurb432

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so is this overkill for playing doom?

 

12core xeon, 16TB disk, 1tb m.2, 512gb ram. 1080 video card and a 1650 video card.   DVD writer.. 950 watt power supply.....12 or so USB 3 ports.  1gb Ethernet   some sort of high end sound card thingie.   oh, and blue lashing lights on the motherboard ,,,



[#] Fri Oct 07 2022 22:02:13 EDT from zelgomer

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Maybe with those specs you can finally look up and down.

[#] Sat Oct 08 2022 07:32:57 EDT from Nurb432

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its actually one of my PVE servers. i use it when i need some real power. Normally its not even turned on. It started life as a etherium miner.  ( but stopped when the DAG hit 3gb... geez )

Was adding another 4TB drive to it last night, and cleaning out the dust. ( why? why not :) )

 

Looking at it last night and was thinking how id never even imagine having such a beast some 20 years ago.. and now i hardly even use it and it collects dust....

Fri Oct 07 2022 10:02:13 PM EDT from zelgomer
Maybe with those specs you can finally look up and down.

 



[#] Sat Oct 08 2022 09:02:16 EDT from zelgomer

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Looking at it last night and was thinking how id never even imagine
having such a beast some 20 years ago.. and now i hardly even use it
and it collects dust....

I still can't imagine half a terrabyte of ram. I thought I had a lot when I upgraded to 32GB a few years ago, and I only did that because I turned my desktop into a vfio gpu passthrough machine, so I can crank up a Windows 10 VM with a dedicated gpu and play stupid video games on it. It still feels like infinity to me. So much so that I frequently use tmpfs parts of the filesystem for compiling or watching movies procured through not so mainstream channels. I've gotten a little paranoid about what I allow to be written to disk.

[#] Sat Oct 08 2022 09:22:48 EDT from Nurb432

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I still clearly remember upgrading my ST to 4mb and thought i was hot shit.



[#] Sat Oct 08 2022 14:50:26 EDT from LadySerenaKitty

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Sat Oct 08 2022 09:22:48 EDT from Nurb432

I still clearly remember upgrading my ST to 4mb and thought i was hot shit.



Look at us now, with our laptops sporting 2x 32GB memory modules.



[#] Sat Oct 08 2022 16:04:10 EDT from Nurb432

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or my 8gb ARM modules..  



[#] Fri Oct 14 2022 17:29:46 EDT from Nurb432

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Well, this is cool, if you use common SBCs and need some 3D printed cases ( and in theory, CNC for metal versions ).  Supports tons of boards and their common accessories, and its CAD format so you can easily change it.

 

https://github.com/hominoids/SBC_Case_Builder

 

 



[#] Fri Oct 28 2022 19:36:58 EDT from Nurb432

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ARM is dead.   The fat lady is warming up to sing

 

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/arm-changes-business-model-oem-partners



[#] Mon Oct 31 2022 09:28:26 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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So they want OEMs to get ARM licenses directly from ARM? The cheap chinese chip fabs who want to ignore all of it must be absolutely loving that.

Cue the Apple announcement of yet another architecture change in 3... 2... 1...

[#] Mon Oct 31 2022 20:05:52 EDT from Nurb432

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And this time i wont blame them. Its the right move, once their license runs out. 

Rumor is they already use small RISC-v CPUs as 'glue' on their SOCs now.  As does NVIDIA.   

 

Mon Oct 31 2022 09:28:26 AM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

So they want OEMs to get ARM licenses directly from ARM? The cheap chinese chip fabs who want to ignore all of it must be absolutely loving that.

Cue the Apple announcement of yet another architecture change in 3... 2... 1...

 



[#] Tue Nov 01 2022 07:13:53 EDT from Nurb432

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Learned something yesterday abut USBC PD power.  I'm sure everyone knows and im late to the game, but i never needed to know this until now.

 

I guess when a device turns on, the power supply gives it a trickle of current, with the expectation that the device will actively 'negotiate' what it wants to fully power up.  And if it does not in x microseconds, the power supply powers down, causing the device to reboot and start the process over again.  

Most devices do this early on in the boot process,perhaps the very first thing, ( its inside UBoot if its ARM ), and if you are stupid and put this into the kernel, by the time you get there the power supply has already given up.

And if you are really a dumb ass company and not only put it in the kernel, you only test with your special supply that does NOT negotiate, so that when thousands of people get your fancy new product the last couple of days, everyone is stuck in boot loops, until you update code or we hack together their own powersupply. ( or just get lucky with having a 'dumb' power supply in your collection, that also can put out 30 watts on boot.  I do not. )

 

Grrrr   They should be better than this. they are not new in this market. Tho they are the ones that put a m.2 socket on *backwards* so the SSD points out the side of the board and not underneath....  "oops, look we came up with a new daughter board you can use, sorry it increases the height by 2x and requires a ribbon cable dangling out in the air... Hope you were not planning on embedding this board into a product or something"



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