I never said a single fucking thing about why anyone transitions or even on a related topic of conversation. Fuckwits do not read anything but have an opinion. I have a two and a half year history of exactly the opposite. Standing up for diversity and being as supportive as possible both as a person and in mod actions. One will not find anything but support in everything in my history here. Populist stupidity is insane here.
The name regicide has had millennia to develop, while I think it is likely that this novel method of obfuscating the succession crisis has not had similar time or cause for neologization.
Hereditary wealth is a terminal cancer. Business acumen and intelligence are not hereditary in humans. Japan is the only Western country that has effectively addressed this issue.
In what sense of motivation?
Introverted, or extroverted?
Your own I/E, or hers, or the attention from others?
For the power over others, or to be the objective others chase?
To exploit that dynamic, or to be validated by its potential and existence?
Not trying to say anything politically charged at all. I don't care about that at all. Everyone is engaged in some level of motivations. It is okay if people do not want to talk about it.
I've been reading a lot of philosophy stuff and am just curious for the sake of curiosity.
Take for example, sex. Maslow's Hierarchy is admissible in most courts of law in the west. In that assessment, sex is a fundamental human need. That fact is also a form of objectification. By extension, all sexual activity is objectively taking care of one's fundamental human needs. So if all sex is objectified, how one chooses to sate that need could fall into many outlets. There is certainly a lot of choice to be made in that space. For instance, self actuation is an option. What is not a choice is whatever you find arousing, or interesting. I am no judge there. I do not care at all. I know what niches I find arousing and no one has a right to question or try to change that either. That is not what I am talking about.
Further, in sexual relations with others, there are narcissists and there are altruists. The narcissist is self centered and focused on claiming another; they are motivated by self gratification and domination. The altruist is motivated by giving and curiosity. They want to explore and find their partner's optimal experience. Within these two paradigms, I skimmed over two other branches for each. The narcissist may only be out to sate their own needs while not caring about power dynamics; motivated by introverted greed. On the other hand, they could be motivated by extroverted domination and not care about their needs as much.
Likewise, the "altruist" may be more of an explorer of many different paths. It may be centered in self; how can I perform at my best to better my partner's experience. It may be mutual; let's adventure together. It may be external; what would you like to explore.
There are always layers upon layers in such subjects. My initial questions had no malice behind them at all.
I came across a story where a trans person wanted to cosplay as every girl in every instance. The motivation struck me as a super odd form of narcissism, but perhaps it has some kernel of truth, like some people out in the world feel a desire to do the same. It does not bother me in the slightest either way. I am simply curious about the spectrum of people and differences that exist. Nothing more, nothing less.
You do not understand philosophy well, or its meaning. None of what you said is true. It just shows that you do not understand what I said at all. It is okay. My family is exactly the same. I still care about them the same as I care about you.
I'm just trying not to argue and be toxic because this place is terrible about such things. It is a major down side and prejudice that is hard to deal with when a person like myself is physically disabled and stuck in long term social isolation where this is my only source of external real human social contact. Unlike with diversity, there is no way to push back against that prejudice. It is rooted in the culture of the internet where people lack the same social peer pressure that regulates their behavior in the real world.
What I said in all instances was done out of simple curiosity using simple abstractions. My purpose is only to have an interesting positive conversation with digital neighbors. I have not prepared rhetoric. I have no desire to engage in negativity. I am no expert. Nothing I say is fit for or intended as scientific publication. I have no agenda. I am simply looking to expand my own understanding of people that have a solid grasp on who and what they are because it increases my potential for kindness, empathy, and understanding. The moment I spot tribalism and dogma, I stop engaging as these are not capable of logic or philosophical abstraction. The first sign of these comes from those that steal my narrative voice. Anyone that speaks for another in their stead lacks fundamental logic. Placing me in some tribal camp is dogmatic. I said nothing to make such an association. If I had quoted or cited someone, sure, but I did no such thing. I have never even heard of the person I am now in some imaginary tribalistic association with purely for the sake of having a curious conversation.
In other words, I am being attacked for information, error, and skepticism. These are unalienable human rights. The right to all information, the right to error, the right to skepticism, and the right to protest in all nonviolent forms are fundamental human rights in all democratic systems. When these are attacked, it is tyranny of authoritarianism. That is nothing more than tribalism and leads to barbarism.
It is ultimately a bad faith response to a conversation. This place lacks the depth to engage in advanced topics at a casual conversational level. That is stifling to my personal growth. Further, the avalanching negativity and bad faith tribalism are a very harmful prejudice because most people seem to assume the internet is an exception and place to vent their true selves. Face to face, no one would respond like this, or rather I would never associate with people that respond in bad faith. I have no real alternative. Therein lies the real prejudice. Stealing any form of human interaction in the public commons infers a person experiencing involuntary social isolation is not human, it strips meaning from life, it withholds basal human needs, and it motivates self harm.
Both the authoritarian left and authoritarian right are murder tribes that kill people on the margins. The marginalized people are different, but always consist of the innocent. I am one of those marginalized people too. I disengage to protect myself as best I can from tribalistic monsters. Dichotomous logic is incapable of real understanding which requires abstract logic skills. This is social media, not academy. It was just a conversation. Depth and engagement met with murder tribe response noted. One more feather on the punch my own ticket tally added. Mission accomplished.
Most of the major developments that lead to the public stuff happened between 2017-2021. Transformers was the big one that made scaling a thing. Altman pushed in a stupid direction that caused a lot of the nonsense, like turning the name "Open AI" into an oxymoron.
There are some aspects of alignment that point at political corruption and planning with nefarious intent that fits in with the present political bullshit too, but that is very complicated to explain in any depth. If you were to search the token vocabulary, you will find dubious elements are present in compound multi word tokens that disproportionately represent a single political camp, likewise with religious media, and science denialism. Much of that stuff dates from 2019 or before.
Looking for some software to help organize my photos which are currently spread out across lots of random backups. Something that displays the metadata usefully and identifies identical photos would be a big help. ...
Scripting and the command line is an option. It may seem a bit daunting at first but can be a lot faster. Doing AI training stuff I tried brute forcing for awhile but it is just too tedious. A model like a Qwen 3 can be instructed to act like a photo captioning model. It is quite good at optical text recognition in images too.
You can script it to caption the whole image or any number of elements like color, location, subjects, etc., while also limiting the length of text. Then modify the image metadata with the text. It is also possible to feed it a set of json keys and it will fill in the values for the dictionary.
If you go this route, then you start using tools like ripgrep and it becomes possible to find and manipulate many thousands of images quickly to find niche sets in the tens to hundreds in just a single scripted command. You can do stuff like grep -ril foo | xargs | sed 's/foo/bar/' or something like that. Not at my comp right now to pull up the command flags, but that is how to search and edit to change all instances of words in a bunch of files. That one is technically incorrect but it makes far more intuitive sense than alternatives.
Something like Qwen requires enthusiast level hardware, or if you have to, a free google colab instance. If you search for captioning models there are much smaller ones like the ancient BLIP that are less accurate but fast and run on anything. Anyways, I know this reply is not exactly what you wanted, but it is an option, and one I thought was beyond me until I tried it. Hopefully it is useful digital neighbor.
Something like, An image consisting of two men and three children, formally dressed, indoors, they appear to be at an event such as a wedding reception. There is a cake in the background and people dancing. There is a banner in the image that says "Congratulations Tom and Jerry".
You need a model compiled for the architecture. I saw some for the RK35xx devices when shopping for hardware. I do not think there is software made to split up or run models in general on a NPU. The models must be configured for the physical hardware topology. The stuff that runs on most devices is very small, and these either need a ton of custom fine tuning or they are barely capable of simple tasks.
On the other hand, segmentation models are small, and that makes layers, object identification, and background removal stuff work. Looking at your CPU speed, and available memory, it is unlikely to make much difference. You are also memory constrained for running models, though you could use deepspeed to load from a disk drive too.
Skimming 4chan random a couple of months ago, there was a post on the worst of India. One picture was of a train route with a few tracks and a half dozen people strewn dead across the ground. It was impossible to tell the circumstances, but they were clearly dead and broken. No one cared. All the surroundings were business as usually and no one was responding or concerned. By the way things looked, some had been there for awhile.
Nope. Fuck that. I want nothing to do with such a pathetic amoral society. I will gladly miss my connection out of respect for life, anyone's, everyone's. I care about you digital neighbor reading this now. My slight inconvenience is not worth more than your life.
It is probably very difficult to transport a dead person post mortem, and lessening that journey for your family is important too.
It is an easily mistaken context dear neighbor, if one were to project my abstraction into some emotional space, but I assure you the assumption is patently false. For when I say such a society it is an abstraction against my perception, and principally grounded in the post about the man that died on an airplane. I am calling out the chasm of how the morals and ethics extrapolate, and conjuring a picture that illustrates my point. I lead off that illustration by clearly stating that my perspective is ungrounded and that it is impossible to do so from such a simple scope of a time and place. However, I'm also conjuring a circumstance that should garner empathy to counter other sentiments I see as grossly immoral.
Further, one should duly note that In have clearly stated I care about anyone and everyone, which obviously includes the wonderful people of India. I do not accept any assertion that some lives are merely acceptable collateral damage due to the population density or narcissistic adolescent halfwits that fail to project themselves onto the lives of others with empathy.
So it is quite the opposite of what you imagined. My indignation is against those that accept these poor people as worthless, if that happened to be the case, and the image was plain and straightforward. It does not matter whether my assumptions are correct in the trauma I felt when seeing that image. The moral and ethical implications of the abstraction extrapolate to the situation on the plane. If one dead body is irrelevant, than six are equally the same, and the end result is a complete breakdown of civilization into barbarism. That it is grounded in a kernel of reality, lends the illustrative tool the teeth needed to make the principal stick, however it is only an abstraction.
Similar stuff exists everywhere. India has some of the worst I have seen, but there are places in the USA that are no better. Some Native American reservations are on par, as are parts of the most rural and poorest states.
Leave the thing on the ground so the next car kills it properly. Nonconsensual ads are digital rape. It is the same moral scope as buying and selling a person's digital presence to manipulate and exploit them is digital slavery.
Any company with an advertising budget for spamming and wasting my time is clearly indicating that their competition has a product with better value and reputation. Ads are public service announcements of what to never purchase.
I will not watch ads for anything at all. My time is not subject to that nonsense. I'll go read or do other things.
Seeing somme 2000+ year old earrings at the museum got me thinking. How did we our ancestor started thinking Let's poke a hole in your ear, and then keep a piece of silver inside to make-sure the hole stay open Already by today standard's it sometimes feel a bit crazy. ...
Most likely, people were sadistic, but also accidents happen. You just happen to get hurt in some way, make the best of it, and someone wants to copy it. The sadistic part is likely branding and slavery. Marking people so they cannot escape without getting caught.
I'm no expert on the subject, but reading Plato's dialogues lately, the Athenians of the era just before Alexander had no preclusive prejudice for gendered relations. That said, the human demographic in Plato's dialogues is very much biased towards the upper class of society, and I believe that has always slanted towards social exception through hierarchy, with a special place for the rogue aberrant who strings the bow of dogma at the edge of the tribe.
Clouds. Messing with optical properties of the universe has far greater consequences in physics. Don't ask what. I do not recall more than simply seeing someone respond to a similar thing and talk about all the implications of altering... I think it was an atheist thing where someone was proving the universe could not exist if optical properties changed "after the flood" like the mythical nonsense in the bible. I just remember thinking, yup, never gonna mess with that shit... So clouds... Can I be Eros?
Let me know when they create an alternative to transformers, pytorch, and create a tokenizer without the Open AI QKV hidden layers of alignment. That is where all the fuckery is happening. This is standard and used for all models. It is totally proprietary and a primary reason why they are "open weights" but not Open Source.
I know lots of you have grown with it so that's just the way it has always been for you and you are used to it, but older gamers, why do you need a launcher? ...
I may check out this GOG eventually. Accounts, subscriptions, micro transactions, and criminal proprietary extortion are why I stopped gaming for the most part. For me, it has been full-source or fuck off for a long time. I cannot fix stupid in anyone else but me. I will not support criminal extortion and bank account skimming scams. They only exist because people have no real moral depth and self respect to say no.
Damn that sucks. https://nightly.pipepipe.dev/ is using cloudflare ECH as mandatory. I am not enabling that shit. I do not inherently trust anyone to control DNS forwarding and tunnels. I do not care about FOSS "hackers" with DNS. I care about corporate stalkerware digital slavery. I am never giving up my DNS whitelist even if it costs me the whole internet. Fuck anyone that rips the front door off my digital house with this ECH garbage.
When buying hardware in the present age, shop for FOSS software you want to run first. Then, clone the git in full. Finally, use the gource package to create a visual tree video that plays against the commit history. This will show you who is getting their pulls merged, how often, and how they contribute to the project.
What you're looking for is who is consistent, and what they are using for hardware. It will always be obvious on larger projects. They will make little tweaks and changes a bunch between the hardware and software.
You may see stuff like company employees and subcontracting devs come in and make large commits that support some specific hardware, but if you watch carefully, these are only a handful of commits, and then they never return. They likely had a checklist in a contract, completed it, and got paid. They will never return. Likewise, if one of the main devs gets a new device, they will shift to it and you're unlikely to see them make any further commits to the old stuff. The timespan between this transition infers much about the state of the old device support. Maybe just ask them why they switched and what is missing on the old stuff, or just cd to the hardware supporting directory and do $ grep -rin todo or similar types of stuff like code comments or words like hack or need.
Hardware specs and advertising nonsense are worthless and irrelevant. Don't let highway robbers dictate your expectations. The only products that exist are those with FOSS support, so start with the FOSS and ignore everything else as criminal warlords. Who gives a fuck what products and deals the proprietary fascists churn out of Auschwitz or a Palestinian camp.
On that level, maybe invert your mindset and look in Maker spaces. Search by hardware like ESP32. You will likely get better (different) results if you search for devices that target EE students instead of those that target Makers in general. Like it is well known that Texas Instruments will send free samples of most common chips requested, to anyone with a .edu email. Projects on hardware like a Beagle Bone tend to be more advanced than more common Maker hardware. While a BB is like half of a Rπ in terms of hardware architecture, if a purpose made device is created without all of the extra overhead fluff, it is pretty good. The STM32 H7 stuff tends to have advanced projects at the handheld gaming level. The Nordic BT BLE chips are usually more popular with the advanced crowd.
You might look at the hardware commits for Micropython or Circuit Python for people adding DACs or other peripherals. These are likely to lead to their project spaces.
I've seen someone doing a drive swap on an old iPod to SSD and a software chain, but I think that was still only doing the Apple compatibility thing.
OpenWRT is not a bad place to look either. Any small embedded Linux device is likely to run on OpenWRT, so you may find something interesting just by shopping their hardware support and commit history.
I do the shaky thing too, but I think it is just psychological tbh. At calorie crash levels of no blood sugar during extreme endurance sports, it is totally different. It is like someone straps lead weights all over your body. Everything feels heavy and nearly impossible to move.
There is probably some kind of dynamic regarding different types of sugar in the system that cause the shakiness.
Your brain ONLY works on sugars. So calorie crashing, like hitting the wall, is when your body has to start cannibalizing your own muscles for sugar to fuel the brain. I've never been anywhere near that level except on a bike after 4+ hours and 60+ miles. You feel like a puddle, and joints are like bending copper wire. There is no shakiness in that state.
More. The larger the group, the more distributed the intelligence, and the larger the chance that someone with unmitigated mental health problems are present.
I was mildly scared of them when I was getting my commercial driver's license ages ago. I was looking at potential jobs involving cranes or an excavator and lowboy. When a typical tractor trailer is fully loaded, you only have 3-4 full hard presses on the brakes before you lose them. Air brakes are inverted. The unpowered brakes state is fully engaged. The pneumatics are holding back the shoes; unlike typical cars that are pressing the friction material into a surface using hydraulics. When a truck fully engages the brakes, it lets all the air out. Then the reserve is used to refill the system to disengage. The engine's compression is a primary component of the braking system. However, it is a manual transmission. Unlike manual cars, these do not have synchromesh (small clutches that spin up the secondary gear shaft to match the primary shaft speed). If you miss a shift, you only have around a 50-75 RPM window where shift will mesh at all. On top of that, the engine only revs 2k-3k RPM, so the transmission is usually an 8 speed with 2-3 splitters. That means there are 16-24 speeds total, and for any given speed, only one little shift window exists. I was scared of big downhills. When a truck is fully loaded, going down hill, and you've got to shift for engine braking, it can feel about like someone is fully depressing the accelerator in a regular car. That shift window passes super fast. One can rev match the engine to a small extent, but it is still easy to miss in an unfamiliar rig. You are more focused on staying in the lane when every visual indication you're used to in cars is missing. Like you feel much larger than the lane and you only have around half a meter of extra margin split on both sides of the truck when driving minimum width lanes. So you miss the gear mesh, now you hard press the brakes to get the speed somewhere low where you are able to find a gear. Miss like that 3 times in a few minute span, and you're likely to run out of air. That slams on the brakes, but that is not enough to stop a fully loaded truck on grades steeper than 5-6%. It is why the signs exist warning about the grade. You must use the engine AND brakes at these grades, managing the air levels in concert with the RPM and gear selected.
Anyone here ever fucked that up, or been in to a runaway ramp or engineered stopping surface?
Nah, it is a matter of weight. Roads are engineered specifically for the weight of these trucks. If these trucks are regulated stupidly, the cost of goods goes up very quickly, the cost of road infrastructure skyrockets, or both. Making cars obese to protect the dumbest humans is one thing, but the constraints are different here. A commercial driver's license is supposed to be a real license with real qualifications. That is your only protection. In a society where driving is required, the regular license is a joke with superficial qualifications. It is just a tax on the populous.
On pyfed, I see your overall "attitude" by default. This is the percentage of positive to negative voting interactions you have had recently. You are presently at 68%, which is rather low.
The activitypub protocol is not at all private. Anyone with a server and admin account is able to see all of these details.
Anonymous negativity is actually rather mental and should not exist in any democratic or ethical sense. You have a right to all information, a right to error, a right to skepticism, and a right to protest in nonviolent forms aka the right to offend others. Anonymous negativity is a violation of freedom of information and anti-egalitarian. Everyone has a right to confront their accuser with transparency.
If you have something to say, you should have the decency of stating it. Downvoting is a mental disorder. It is like people that use four letter expletives to express themselves when they lack the intellectual depth to articulate their thoughts. It only really exists as a corrupt means of artificially influencing behaviors for commercial and political means.
Is it ethical or reasonable to walk up to a stranger and give them negative feedback. Let's say you see a man exit his car to walk into a store. Should you have a right to leave an anonymous message on his car about the style of his shirt? Doing such nonsense will get you labeled a halfwit or worse. Take any real life circumstances and transpose this behavior. It is completely unethical nonsense.
"Trust" as a mechanism, is the primary tool of authoritarians and fascists. That is trash. Democracy and community are built with open transparency and accountability. One is a coward. The other will engage the dialectic and has nothing to hide. My "attitude" is 100% now. I rarely downvote because the behavior fails at fundamental game theory and the prisoner's dilemma. Negative feedback is incapable of creating positive outcomes. It always brings everyone down. So if you are going to be negative, at least do so constructively in a useful way by articulating your thoughts in text.
A disorder is a function that causes disruptive distress or deviation from nominal behavior.
In abstract, I have posited a claim, and then shown how that claim is backed by associative social norms. I am attacking the normalization of anonymous negative behavior at a foundational level. I'm attacking the ethics of the developers that created this system in the first place. I have exemplified how this same behavior is in opposition to human social norms. I have shown its weaknesses in terms of political impact. I have posited a deeply unethical use case of why such a system would be implemented in the first place despite the malevolence. Finally, I have shown how it is destructive and harmful to everyone through statistical analysis using game theory.
The abstraction is not targeted in any way at people with mental health disorders. I am showing how the feature itself is a disorder or catalyst for disorderly behaviors.
I have actually tried really hard to remove any forms of bias or personal attacks from my dialog over the last decade or so. Like in this case, I'm actually arguing for positive constructive interactions in a more socially aware architecture. I want to remove the nominalized negativity. It was a mistake to make a space where people are able to abuse others, to manipulate, and to cause harm without social consequences as a feedback mechanism. It is a particularly sharp prejudice to experience when one is in near total social isolation from stuff like physical disability. Allowing people with no independent ethics to treat a space like this as a sadistic release valve for turgid eristics is simply wrong.
Designing a simple photo frame. I wanted to make it so that it prints without supports. While printing, however, the back support part wobbles/vibrates with movement, and is printing terribly. ...
Honestly, it is a bit of a noob design, and I do not mean that in any kind of negative or insulting way whatsoever. The main issue here is how you are thinking in terms of other materials and processes. Every product is primarily constrained by the manufacturing process. The design aesthetics are constrained by this process. The trick is to understand these constraints well enough to make something aesthetically pleasing within the process. To be fair, ~95% of designs shared and printed have this type of issue. Your design here looks like something I would make out of brass sheet and brazing. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the approach. I see what you were trying to do.
The floating thin sections on layers, lack the flow consistency to maintain temperature regulation of the heat block. The heater cartridge in the print head is managed by a PID control loop. This will always have some overshoot and undershoot of temperature when the flow changes substantially. There are a number of contributing factors to this issue in the printer hardware design. I could go into a lot of depth here but that is an aside.
I would not use thin floating sections. Let's say the whole backing was solid in a FreeCAD design body. I would then do something like an egg shaped ellipse pocket out of the middle. Another option might be a % like shape with the thinnest section offset so that the layer lines are still substantial.
My most advance approach would be to print the face of the frame on the bed, and the rear face of the backing plate also on the bed as a second part. If designed well from the start, and if the bed is large enough, you design the print to finish the backing plate before the face is completed. Then you add a print pause, remove the backing plate, insert it into the front plate, and continue the print to encapsulate it as a single part. This makes any 2D pattern for the backplate possible, and you do not need to deal with fasteners or whatnot. You end up with a perfect picture frame slot using this method.
A total aside, but this idea can also be used to make your own printed supports manually for perfect overhangs. You print the support to size, add a pause, and remove the printed support shape. Ideally, you add a ~0.1mm-0.2mm clearance gap, paying very close attention to how your slicer layers height and first layer correspond to the support dimensions, or rotate the support to utilize better x/y dimensional accuracy if possible in some designs. You can even create a printed alignment jig on the build plate just to hold this manually created print support. The trick is to then apply gluestick to the interface between the manually printed support and your overhang. This can produce nearly first layer like print quality on an overhang with dimensional accuracy too.
Another super advanced trick: let's think if the picture frame standing vertically upright in Cartesian planes. It is facing forward on the X-Z plane (X = -><- = >< = left to right). Let's assume the origin 0,0,0 is properly centered in the frame. Now if we look at a X/Y Top, section view, we are looking at the picture frame as if someone had used a hacksaw in the middle of the sides of the frame. In other words, we are looking at the frame's profile view. Now typically, people approach this like a [. Now this takes a lot of practice, but it is possible to design a profile something like ɭ̅̅̅ ̅ ̅˻ ̅ ̷̅ – the print bed is ↓. If you design this just right, the left side is the frame and the right is designed with a small connection to the bed and an angle where this connection is close to the rest of the frame. The thin bridge overhang is going to contract and shrink towards the larger heat mass of the frame, especially because of the printed layers above the bridge. This contracting force will be set into the part like a spring, but will remain compressed due to bed adhesion. You may want to add a small first layer connection or inner skirt to hold this section in place firmly throughout the print. When the part is removed from the bed, the bridge spring will pull the right section back. This will create the slot for your picture and potentially a way of holding other types of backing, while not worrying about conforming to other types of manufacturing process constraints like a wood router or sheet metal profile.
Sorry if my lack of eloquence, verbosity, or tone come across negative at all. I wish to be encouraging and am just nerding out.
Did you see I wrote that comment into a spoiler to shorten it in the post replies so it is not a wall of text? Sorry if my thoughts are hard to follow at times. I write in an abstract rough draft like format. I wrote several tips and how I approach a problem like this.
With reports that the witnesses in today’s murder by ICE were all detained (and their phones presumably confiscated), I’ve been thinking nonstop about if I were to record ICE or the cops doing something, how could I ensure that any videos I record are not able to be deleted, assuming my phone was confiscated? I’m talking ...
I was looking for the image to see if I saved it, but apparently not. There was a image floating around of a private meeting slide presentation that showed the various phones and their vulnerabilities. IIRC, the main things were some issue with the number of allowed log in attempts when all the mobile devices are in the initial boot lock versus regular lock state. The other was how the default USB behavior is handled in the locked state. These are default locked down in Graphene. Additionally, there are tools like a second lock screen password that factory resets the device completely in the background, and automatic reboots so that the phone goes into the initial boot locked state regularly.
If they can't get into the device, they will probably just steal it.
Use linux-hardware.org to search for a relevant kernel scan. I think that should have some kind of potential hardware identification for the USB hub and PCI trees. That may clue you in about the architecture and devices. I'm no expert on motherboards or the evolution of hardware devices. However, it could be as simple as a USB hub chip on the board. I only know that these things exist from around 5 years ago when I was researching how I might make a USB 3 to PCIE adaptor for an Intel Core Duo machine. I was looking into adding a faster external drive port to libreboot hardware.
From what I recall, the CPU has a ton of connections on its various I/O pins, (like you indicated checking for bent pins). However each register port has a ton of compromises to make at the board design level. Like, the hardware spec of the CPU says it has way way more stuff than is actually possible to implement in practice. The base CPU spec may say it has a half dozen USB ports and three 32 bit PCI lanes or whatnot, but when one gets into the weeds of hardware design, one quickly finds stuff like one USB port is hardware available in practice in the same hardware register as something like the Ethernet controller, but if you use it, the Ethernet speed is halved, and the other five hardware USB ports are only available if one disables all the PCI lanes. So instead, the hardware designer uses a GPIO pin against the enable pin of a USB hub to PCI converter chip that sits on the same PCI bus as all other external hardware. This was also very common in older generations of laptops. There was often a small daughter board that had a set of ports for USB, SD cards, Ethernet, etc., and this worked in a similar topology where it was a PCI device.
The first rule of troubleshooting is "thou shall check ground". Beyond this, if you happen to discover that the USB ports are handled by such a controller, if you look up the datasheet and pinout, the Enable pin in the first to check after confirming power is present. Also be sure you have the kernel module or driver necessary to identify this device. Worst case scenario, if you identify there is an external controller, you could simply replace it. There is no programming in such a chip. It is just a simple hot air rework swap job. Alternatively, maybe try an external card or adaptor on one of the other ports or on PCI.
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If a person assassinates a king or queen its called Regicide. What is the killing of a leader/president/head of state etc? Why is it called that way?
Vibes based economic system. ( lemmy.ml )
egg🧠irl ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Anyone feeling like this sometimes?
Where do you think we'd be in the current AI craze if the pandemic never happened?
Disclaimer: I am not informed about the development of AI, LLMs, etc. or what we were doing with them pre-covid. ...
Looking for photo organization software
Looking for some software to help organize my photos which are currently spread out across lots of random backups. Something that displays the metadata usefully and identifies identical photos would be a big help. ...
Is there any software that can use it that benefits average user or is it just a waste of silicon???
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/4242386 ...
I mean, yeah
We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)
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How did "ancient humans" got the idea to pierce their ears/body ?
Seeing somme 2000+ year old earrings at the museum got me thinking. How did we our ancestor started thinking Let's poke a hole in your ear, and then keep a piece of silver inside to make-sure the hole stay open Already by today standard's it sometimes feel a bit crazy. ...
Hi, New here!
Hi there, I’m new here. We were told to explore Lemmy for a class project on online communities. Is this a good place to start asking questions?
Totally
Would you rather be able to jump on clouds or slide down rainbows?
Mozilla [claims to be] building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on OpenAI, Anthropic ( www.cnbc.com )
Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually)
I know lots of you have grown with it so that's just the way it has always been for you and you are used to it, but older gamers, why do you need a launcher? ...
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PipePipe X ( github.com )
[Announcement] PipePipe X (formerly 5.0 beta) is now available ...
Advice on music player devices?
Hello fellow lemmings
sex machine
also if any bald ppl are reading this, does your head naturally shine and shimmer or do you do that manually?
Is it normal that you feel very shaky as soon as you start to get hungry?
If everybody at ICE protests showed up with masks and a gun would there be more or less violence?
Would protestors be safer? Thousands of masked people with guns. Chaos? ...
Spirits, I have no plans on Wednesday. What should I do that day?
The hidden engineering of airport runways: Engineered Materials Arresting Systems ( practical.engineering )
Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?
I woke up today, to a public comment in a Lemmy community asking a series of tagged accounts why they had downvoted certain posts ...
Trying to design a simple photo frame. Please help me understand these print issues.
Designing a simple photo frame. I wanted to make it so that it prints without supports. While printing, however, the back support part wobbles/vibrates with movement, and is printing terribly. ...
How can I ensure any videos I record on my phone aren't deleted by the cops?
With reports that the witnesses in today’s murder by ICE were all detained (and their phones presumably confiscated), I’ve been thinking nonstop about if I were to record ICE or the cops doing something, how could I ensure that any videos I record are not able to be deleted, assuming my phone was confiscated? I’m talking ...
LGA1155 motherboard - no USB ports work
trying to save an old motherboard, it's a Gigabyte GA-B75M-D2V. tried searching, got nothing usable back. ...
It works tho ( sh.itjust.works )
The Lord of the Ring ( sh.itjust.works )
Who here is a bit different?