Your OS can load the microcode. Most Linux distros will load the latest microcode during boot. Some will even update the microcode when it gets the new microcode from the distro repositories. This facility exists specifically because motherboard vendors are terrible about providing updates.

Not really the same thing though, since Trump’s thingy wasn’t one of the things that popularised that type of site.

It would be hilarious to see Digg restart as a Lemmy instance.

Not to mention that I can’t find any indication that Mint has a fixed version of ffmpeg at all.

It helps significantly that the EU already has a lot of the necessary expertise at every level.

That’s not quite accurate. The community can still upload fixed packages to universe, just as the community runs universe in the first place.

Does mint ship with a fixed version of ffmpeg?

I’d much rather see RISC-V take over.

There’s no reason why some sort of augmentation system couldn’t improve the navigation situation with the big dig. Stick some low power beacons that provide GPS-like signal in the tunnel based on their predetermined location and we’ll have GPS accounting for special relativity, general relativity and continental drift.

Correct. But that means 512 GB is not half a tebibyte.

512 GiB is half a tebibyte. 512 GB is just under 477 GiB.

This will probably help you with that. Having a phone that has 8 years of kernel updates is going to make it a strong target for community ports.

The last time I dropped my laptop in the sink is the same as the last time I dropped my phone in the sink.

Why mess with perfection?

Notepad has long been a testbed for new technology in Windows. This isn’t just a sign of enshittification, it’s a warning that they want to do more.

Stupid autocorrect!

Err… I mean uhh… No, I mean bird mounts! Don’t you like mounting birds in your filesystem?

And bird mounts

Installing SL is part of my standard cloud-init config.

You sound surprised…

The SOC uses U-Boot to boot. The Imagination GPU is more of a problem, but there’s work underway to get an open source driver fully working. I’ve got my own kernel and mesa running on multiple dev boards and, while I can’t run a full desktop with mesa on that PowerVR driver yet, I have been able to render some basic things with it. I can, however, install a 6.6 kernel and some userspace binaries to get full acceleration ITMT.

This isn’t really ready for standard consumer use anyway. The point of this is basically as a glorified developer board, which was exactly what I bought it for.