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[Vorpal]

Oh dear. I wonder how long until someone tries to use this for DRM......

[Vorpal]

Well, that explains a few things. I ended up disabling it....

[Vorpal]

That thing in the photo look super awkward to me, what with the keyboard ending up on the very edge and there being virtually no palm rest.
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[Vorpal]

Now I'm tempted... I was thinking about writing some (read only) user space file system drivers for legacy file systems in Rust (to support my retro computing...

[Vorpal]

Depends. On my desktop yes. Many laptops lack options. Yet Ryzen Master and Intel XTU on Windows offer some basic control even on those platforms....

[Vorpal]

Would love to see some support for CPU overclocking and (more interesting to me) undervolting under Linux as well. The GPU stuff is cool and all, but...

[Vorpal]

I had data corruption in ext4, because it doesn't checksum the data. It made it into backups without me noticing. I can only assume it was cosmic rays...

[Vorpal]

Now I'm curious as to the the epoch and range of the system RTC (i.e. what keeps time when the system is turned off). Presumably those too will overflow...

[Vorpal]

Done all of those, daily drive Arch (used to use Gentoo in the late 00s). LFS is great as a learning experience (to learn about toolchains, distros and...

[Vorpal]

I don't want to spend time and electricity on compiling system packages, otherwise I would probably use Gentoo instead of Arch (compiling a handful of...

[Vorpal]

What about consumer Zen 3?...

[Vorpal]

I'm om Arch, and I found a wonderful tool called asysconf that can record current system state (to a set of she'll scripts) and also apply that recorded...