Tag: hardware
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Year MMXX summarized in 7 minutes
For some reason, I didn’t get to see much people, and didn’t have much client work revenue throughout that year. I’m not sure why 🤔 TwentyTwenty was filled with unexpected events, discoveries, and opportunities to think about a lot of things. As nobody needs to read another editorial about the pandemic, I will attempt to…
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CHANS battery rebuild: giving traditional laptops a new life with refactored batteries cells
Back in 2018, when I acquired my legendary ThinkPad X220, I discovered that there is a lady in Ontario, Ms. Chulkova, who does professional battery rebuilding as a side-gig: if you’re in Canada (or the USA, to an extent) you can get your laptop (and other power tools) battery cells replaced by new high-quality cells.…
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The Longest Debugging—The journey towards a reliable Linux workstation
I have this curse where I keep finding heisenbugs not only in the software I use, but also in hardware… The difference being that, unlike software misbehavior, hardware issues take me months to figure out. But hey, they say I’m a persistent bastard. This blog post is mainly a tale about computer hardware, which is…
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Liberté logicielle et matérielle, compte rendu de l'émission La Sphère du 16 septembre
Le 13 septembre, je reçus un curieux courriel m’invitant Ă participer Ă l’Ă©mission « La Sphère » pour un Ă©pisode dĂ©diĂ© au logiciel libre, sur la principale chaĂ®ne radiophonique de Radio-Canada le samedi 16 septembre. L’Ă©pisode dure environ une heure, et la version baladodiffusion est divisĂ©e en divers segments, mais comme on m’a amenĂ© Ă commenter Ă …
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Defence against the Dark Arts involves controlling your hardware
In light of the Vault 7 documents leak (and the rise to power of Lord Voldemort this year), it might make sense to rethink just how paranoid we need to be. Jarrod Carmichael puts it quite vividly: I find the general surprise… surprising. After all, this is in line with what Snowden told us years…
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Reviewing the Librem 15
Following up on my previous post where I detailed the work I’ve been doing mostly on Purism’s website, today’s post post will cover some video work. Near the beginning of October, I received a Librem 15 v2 unit for testing and reviewing purposes. I have been using it as my main laptop since then, as…
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GUADEC 2016, laptops and tablets made to run GNOME, surprise Pitivi meeting
I went there for the 2016 edition of GUADEC: I arrived a couple of days early to attend my last GNOME Foundation board meeting, in one of the KIT’s libraries. The building’s uncanny brutalist architecture only added to the nostalgia of a two years adventure coming to an end: Then… A wild Kat strong-armed me…
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"SmartEco" or "Extreme Eco" projector lamp power saving modes are a trap
Here are some findings I’ve been meaning to post for a while. A bit over a year ago, I fulfilled a decade-long dream of owning a good projector for movies, instead of some silly monitor with a diagonal measured in “inches”. My lifestyle very rarely allows me to watch movies (or series*), so when I…
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Apple Aluminium Keyboard and Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
I finally sold my shiny “like new” Apple aluminium full-size keyboard (2008 model). It is a magnificent piece of hardware that had me drooling for days during the past winter before I took the leap and bought it. It is slim, looks good (that’s subjective), is built tough, and can act as a limited USB…