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New comment by jogu in "Qualcomm Linux 2.0"

jogu — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:07:04 +0000

No, I think Valve prioritizing an open platform independent of Microsoft aligns with their business goals.

They’re doing it in a manner that has broad benefits, but it’s definitely a win-win situation.

New comment by jogu in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

jogu — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:31:52 +0000

I guess you missed the part where they’re talking about HDR?

Yes, the monitor will work but if you want to take full advantage of the panels you enable HDR.

New comment by jogu in "How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?"

jogu — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:43:01 +0000

"And here's the key bit...", etc. I agree there's a few signs that this was at least editorialized by AI. That being said, saying it's slop is a bit of a stretch.

New comment by jogu in "Kuru Toga Dive: $100 mechanical pencil"

jogu — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:11:46 +0000

Not quite. The Kuru Toga mechanism that rotates the led every time you pick up the pencil is present on the cheaper models and is also present here.

The big feature on this pencil is an adjustable automatic lead extrusion mechanism on top of the rotation mechanism.

New comment by jogu in "Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger"

jogu — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:49:22 +0000

Looking at the source I don't think that's true -- it's using GitHub specific APIs to read/write files. It's not standard git so any remote wouldn't work, and the mechanics are more akin to a key-value store than git really.

Not to say you couldn't add a generic git protocol to this, just that that's not being done here.

New comment by jogu in "Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger"

jogu — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:39:56 +0000

I think it's pretty clear from the readme that this is a humorous proof of concept more so than anything someone should seriously use.

New comment by jogu in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

jogu — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:58:51 +0000

Speed running is so bizarre to me, the rules seem so arbitrary. I struggle to see how any form of hardware level modification that results in a meaningful deviation in the behavior of the game would be allowed. At that point what's the difference between smudging your disk and using a GameShark, etc?

Similar thoughts on things like shiny hunting in the Pokemon community.

New comment by jogu in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

jogu — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:45:54 +0000

The Panasonic Toughbook range isn't even the same class of device as Macbooks. They're like twice the size and significantly heavier.

New comment by jogu in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

jogu — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:42:29 +0000

The size, texture, precision, functionality (tapping, multi-finger), palm rejection are all just about flawless on Macbooks. Other manufacturers have good trackpads that are great at some of these things but never all of them.

New comment by jogu in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

jogu — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:28:23 +0000

I look forward to your modifications and advancements in the 3d printing community that are published under completely open licenses!

New comment by jogu in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

jogu — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:23:59 +0000

Permission to do what exactly?

Was there something before the OCL you could / were planning to do that the OCL now prohibits?

New comment by jogu in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

jogu — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:15:34 +0000

What’s wrong with the OCL if you’re a business owner?

New comment by jogu in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

jogu — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:22:29 +0000

Presumably the original dev that implemented the changes for this functionality that pulled the repo does not want to be associated so some level of squashing was required but yeah, the whole history was maybe a bit silly.

New comment by jogu in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

jogu — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:10:23 +0000

5 hours with LiFePo4 and 8 hours with Li-ion since the battery system in the Reform Next should support both chemistries you can choose battery longevity or longer runtime and more frequent battery replacements.

New comment by jogu in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

jogu — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:01:27 +0000

The MNT Reform classic discussed here was designed 6 years ago, but there’s nothing preventing an updated motherboard with better port selection from being created.

The MNT Reform Next that’s scheduled to be fulfilled this year has a much more modern port layout:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

New comment by jogu in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

jogu — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:51:10 +0000

They have a CM4 adapter module so maybe you could get a RISC-V module in there some how but I don’t know if anybody has actually done that or if it would be worth it at this point.

New comment by jogu in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

jogu — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:48:20 +0000

The trackpad in the MNT Reform Next is custom based on the Azotech IQS9150 IC from what I’ve seen in their firmware sources.

Not sure if that will be directly compatible with the MNT Reform classic discussed here though.

New comment by jogu in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

jogu — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:43:25 +0000

The keyboard uses low profile choc v1 mechanical switches. Aside from the split space bar this is about as close to a no compromise, standard layout as you can get I think.

New comment by jogu in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

jogu — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:36:58 +0000

MNT publishes everything: source code, schematics, complete BOMs, mechanical design files. You could produce one of their laptops, or any part of it, yourself through normal PCB suppliers like JLC and 3d print a case.

Reproducing what they have aside, you can also modify any aspect of it by remixing their designs. The most common example of this has been custom keyboard layouts (ergo, split, etc).

New comment by jogu in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

jogu — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:53:04 +0000

I read this as "never buy new electronics because someones old used one is less e-waste".

The motherboard is modular and the compute part of this is replaceable, it's sort of the whole point.

The modules are mostly compatible between all of their products: MNT Reform, MNT Pocket Reform that are available now and the future MNT Reform Next (a more streamlined laptop) and the MNT Station (mini desktop pc).