Daily Archives: 2022-10-28

Article note: Layers of horseshit. Asserting property rights on a color horseshit. Software as a Service horseshit.

Article note: It's an excellent tale of a bug hunt. I spent some time staring into device trees and specifically weird SD/MMC behavior at the U-Boot to Linux hand-off a few months ago on some Zynq boards... this totally tracks, though I haven't cracked the behavior I was seeing. In my case, the boards in question have sequenced regulators for 3v3, 1v9, 1v8, and 1v5 and some examples have other issues with the power sequence, so it's a great angle to look at. I should see if the behaviors are related.

Article note: I remember when this went around shortly after being posted, but man. That is a beautiful machine, and exactly in the vein of the aspirational designs of the 80s - it looks like something FrogDesign would have pitched before being rejected or drastically cheapened/practical-ized before it hit the market. It's of course expensive ($275 + 136 for the bespoke PSU + 33 for the GPU cooler = ~$450 case and cooler) - but not as obscene as I expected at first glance. The owner's gorgeous split ergo keyboard (ErgoDox?) setup is pretty majestic and cyberpunk too.