Since Lunar Lake processors feature memory on the same package as the processor, the computer’s LPDDR5x-8533 RAM is not user upgradeable. But Khadas uses an M.2 2230 PCIe 4.0 SSD, so you should be able to replace the included 1TB SSD if you need more storage.

Sorry what? RAM can’t be upgraded but don’t worry, you can upgrade the SSD. Are they suggesting using Swap if the RAM isn’t enough for you?

Also kind of dumb for a modular system to not allow you to replace RAM modules.

I’m not insisting anything; stating C is not a memory-safe language isn’t a subjective opinion.

Note I’m not even a Rust fan; I still prefer C because it’s what I know. But the kernel isn’t written by a bunch of Lewis Hamiltons; so many patches are from one-time contributors and the kernel continues to get inundated with memory safety bugs that no amount of infrastructure, testing, code review, etc is catching. Linux is written by monkeys with a few Hamiltons doing their best to review everything before merging.

Linus has talked about this repeatedly over the past few years at numerous conferences and there’s a reason he’s integrating Rust drivers and subsystems (and not asking them to fork as you are suggesting) to stop the kernel stagnating and to begin to address the issues like one-off patches that aren’t maintained by their original author and to start squashing the volume of memory corruption bugs that are causing 2/3rds of the kernel’s vulnerabilities.

No idea what you’re being downvoted. Just take a look at all the critical CVSS scored vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel over the past decade. They’re all overwhelmingly due to pitfalls of the C language - they’re rarely architectural issues but instead because some extra fluff wasn’t added to double check the size of an int or a struct etc resulting in memory corruption. Use after frees, out of bounds reads, etc.

These are pretty much wiped out entirely by Rust and caught at compile time (or at runtime with a panic).

The cognitive load of writing safe C, and the volume of extra code it requires, is the problem of C.

You can write safe C, if you know what you’re doing (but as shown by the volume of vulns, even the world’s best C programmers still make slip ups).

Rust forces safe® code without any of the cognitive load of C and without having to go out of your way to learn it and religiously implement it.

Who knows. They launched a hugely successful service via a Discord server…

That said, I’m not sure the designer behind the flop that was the Vision Pro will lead to a compelling “AI” hardware product.

Perhaps it’ll be goggles that’ll dream up interesting eyeballs for you to wear.

I want an AI (diffusion model) powered eink picture frame that I can send a set of prompts, perhaps along with a schedule, to and have it dream up images. No other features required. Ephemeral art.

This slogan was from the 90s (1993/94 maybe?).

Yeah we’ve been going by primary-secondary where I am for the just 6 to 7 years now but I don’t think a universally agreed replacement for the terms exists yet.

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Ship a new app then. Sonos already do this for older products.

Whoever the fuck thought a massive regression for every single customer was the perfect thing to deploy with no option for rollback needs to stop working in software.

You’re right. They’re terms far older than web development. In general the front is the abstraction while the back is the logic/processing. It started as a term for old, large (room-sized) systems where there were front-end machines such as plugboards or terminals, with back-end machines being the CPUs, memory, etc.

Conway’s Law applies in this respect; the mess in governance of Nix has produced a product that reflects that mess. Nix started a beautiful movement but like many first movers, they rarely reap long-term rewards.

He’s been here the whole time!

I don’t know about deduping mid transfer but these two have been helpful over the years:

• dupeguru
• czkawka

Because everyone is too distracted by “Apple bad” to realise how truly awful RCS is.

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Found malware in the voice recorder app on one out of the box (from Amazon while in Japan). So that was fun.

It’s not a loophole. As a subsidiary, profits are still invested into the nonprofit and they’re still guided by the Mozilla manifesto. It just lets them do more and raise more funds which would be difficult to do with nonprofit status (selling default search engine for instance). Here’s their original press release when they incorporated Mozilla Corporation in 2005.