[-] qupada@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Wikipedia suggests "spknork" as an alternative, which is too many consonants in a row

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splayd

[-] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Here's another good example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cp28hIMP94

Stacking 283(!) double mains adapters and measuring the voltage drop. Because it's not just the cable, each plug/socket adds additional resistance.

[-] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nominative determinism strikes again!

[-] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

The thumbnail looks like a shoe with mould growing on it.

[-] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Also he listened to a smart person.

[-] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

When you're eating off-brand loose meat, you might well find that it is horse.

[-] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

Surprisingly, no.

I've got both the first-gen Palma, and a Kindle Oasis (2017).

Ignoring anything that's purely a function of the Palma being significantly newer - has a cool-warm light while that model of Kindle is one colour temperature only, and that it has a faster-refreshing e-ink display, etc - it's still often a more pleasant experience.

The Palma is a little heavier (especially vs the Kindle without its case, which is typically how I use it), but because it's narrower much easier to hold. The Oasis does have the physical page turn buttons, but I never found them to be particularly well placed, always required holding it a bit awkwardly.

It's mildly painful for content that doesn't reflow (like PDFs) due to the phone-like 16:9 aspect, but imho for e-books is the superior experience.

[-] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

I mean, that depends...

[-] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

it's essentially 2 PCI Express x1 lanes and USB 2.0

Sometimes there's only a single PCIe lane though. And as you say, that's not a x2 but explicitly two x1s.

No WiFi card needs the bandwidth (yet), at PCIe 3 speeds you've got around 7.8Gbps for a x1, and PCIe 4 double that.

The Coral comes in a "dual" version for exactly this reason (https://coral.ai/products/m2-accelerator-dual-edgetpu/) you just have to be very sure the slot you're putting it in is actually delivering two PCIe connections.

Also for bonus fun, most WiFi/BT cards use the PCIe interface for the WiFi and USB for the Bluetooth.

[-] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

My last laptop (owned from 2013-2020) had an NFC reader under the touchpad.

I managed - exactly once - to get my phone to send a file to it using Beam. Did everything exactly as expected; initiated the transfer by NFC and sent the file over Bluetooth.

I could never repeat the experiment. Once, and only once.

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