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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).

New comment by jogu in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

jogu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:12:26 +0000

Onsen (hot springs) are very common and popular in Japan. Nowadays, they almost always have sauna as well. In Tokyo there's probably a sauna within ~15 minutes of just about anywhere.

New comment by jogu in "Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi"

jogu — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:26:46 +0000

I don’t think anyone is suggesting getting actual phone lines, but rather more lines in a local network setting.

New comment by jogu in "IronGlass Brings Legendary Soviet Cinema Lenses to Mirrorless Cameras"

jogu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:42:53 +0000

If it was just a simple matter of "what was available" these lenses would be an interesting footnote in Photography history. But that's not the case, people still buy them for their unique properties 50 years later and the fact a company exists to re-house them more than proves their legendary status in my mind.

New comment by jogu in "Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi"

jogu — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:15:26 +0000

Right, that matches my understanding. After 2029, It'll stick around as long as it continues to compile. If it fails to compile it would get dropped instead of updated as there's no maintainer.

New comment by jogu in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"

jogu — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:13:19 +0000

> The pokemon games are painful games to play, full of grinding, massive amounts of rng and just boring turn based combat (compared to other rpgs that exist).

As someone who was played every entry since the 90s I can't even imagine how you could come away as Pokemon games being "grindy", assuming you're talking about just playing through the story. EXP share has been a standard mechanic for the past few generations that have effectively eliminated any grinding.

I'm also not really sure where you're getting "massive amounts" of RNG from either. Sure, moves can miss but it's never consequential enough that it could ruin a run or something. At most you lose a few minutes having to run back somewhere.

New comment by jogu in "Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system"

jogu — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:36:39 +0000

Mitsubishi Group has a lot of companies, including a bank, so no the logo doesn't say anything about who donated it.

New comment by jogu in "Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda and more"

jogu — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:09:10 +0000

I like Barley tea as my go to caffeine free tea.

New comment by jogu in "Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines (2020)"

jogu — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:47:05 +0000

In the video at the end you can see it’s the former. They’re drawing a digital representation of the commands the emulator is sending to the “sewing machine”.

New comment by jogu in "My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed"

jogu — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:18:48 +0000

Jetson is such a confusing product and it's difficult to tell exactly what they're supporting. Looking at the image download page it seems to be only Orin and newer?

https://ubuntu.com/download/nvidia-jetson

New comment by jogu in "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]"

jogu — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:28:58 +0000

Some devices are/were only vulnerable during the initial pairing but a key point from this talk was that most of these devices were vulnerable during normal use.

The RACE protocol could be accessed even if the device isn’t in pairing mode. Then once you have a target device’s key you can carry out the attack at anytime, when they’d be unlikely to notice.

New comment by jogu in "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]"

jogu — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:23:34 +0000

It can be fixed if the manufacturer releases a firmware update for the affected devices.

New comment by jogu in "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone [video]"

jogu — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:19:48 +0000

Sounds like you should have actually watched the “long ass video”.

It allows the pairing key to be exfiltrated from the compromised device and an external, attacker controlled device to perform any function the original device could. This includes retrieving the paired devices phone number, answering phone calls, and receiving the audio. They live demo hijacking a whatsapp account using this.