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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Air travel disrupted over Airbus A320 software switch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to dig reasonably hard, but a few articles have linked to the original EASA directive, which is allowing up to three non-passenger flights to relocate the plane to a service location.

  I'm not sure if that rule would just apply in Europe where they have authority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Money. Money is where it comes from.

  "I am rich, therefore my opinion is valid and you should listen to me"

  EXTREMELY LOUD 'INCORRECT' BUZZER

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First game I ever bought.

  Mailed a freaking cheque internationally, and got a box of 3.5" floppy disks back about 6 weeks later.

  Wild times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a good high wattage soldering iron?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Performance wise, you'd struggle to beat a JBC station.

  I have an older version of this one, has been fantastic: https://www.jbctools.com/cdb-soldering-station-product-1605.html

  Price-wise, well that's a whole different story. That station is about $600 USD and change, and individual tips start at about $40.

  What it does have though is damn near instant heating (it takes longer for the controller in mine to boot than it does to heat), hot-swappable tips (the metal comb-looking thing is to aid pulling the tip from the handle), and nearly 150 shapes of tips to choose from (see https://www.jbctools.com/c245-cartridge-range-long-life-tip-product-19-design-iron.html).

  Their other innovation (now somewhat commonplace) is building the element into the tip, letting them put significantly larger power output into comparatively low thermal mass tips. Does wonders for temperature control.

  Here's a reasonable comparison of the older-style (Hakko, Weller) separate element/tip design against the JBC's integrated: https://youtu.be/scvS2yeUH00

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portable KVM for console access⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At work we use the NexDock for that purpose (for anything that doesn't have proper Ethernet remote management, at least). It's relatively convenient that it's self-powered and self-contained, basically a laptop minus the computer part.

  (Conveniently, I see this is also a new model that replaces the awkward mini-HDMI port with a proper full-size one)

  If you need VGA, you will have to buy an active VGA-to-HDMI dongle. They're cheap (down to about $10-15 these days) and seem to work just fine.

  Should the preference be to use a laptop you already own, you've got a few options. Either an IP KVM like the JetKVM, GL.iNet Comet, NanoKVM, etc, or a USB one such as the Openterface.

  (Note that a couple of those links are pre-orders or otherwise not immediately available, make sure you do your research)

  All of these things are fairly comprehensively reviewed by tech-focused Youtube channels, just gotta pick your favourite form factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia reveals Vera Rubin Superchip for the first time — incredibly compact board features 88-core Vera CPU, two Rubin GPUs, and 8 SOCAMM modules⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone - including, apparently, this article's author's - who is confused about the form factor, this is the next generation to follow the Grace Blackwell "GB300-NVL72", their full rack interconnected system.

  It's the same technology as the matching 8-GPU "HGX" board that is built into larger individual servers - which in this generation's case is just called "B300" as it has the "Blackwell" GPU but not the "Grace" CPU - but not sold in smaller units than an entire rack.

  Here are some pictures and a video of that NVL72 version (you can buy these from Dell and others, as well as direct from Nvidia):

  https://www.servethehome.com/dell-and-coreweave-show-off-first-nvidia-gb300-nvl72-rack/
  https://www.ingrasys.com/solutions/NVIDIA/nvidia_gb300_nvl72/

  The full rack has 18 compute trays, each with 2 of the pictured board inside (for a total of 36 CPUs and 72 GPUs), and 9 NVLink switch trays that connect every GPU together. PSUs and networking make up the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Old-timey doctors had a word for that procedure... "lobotomy". Cleaned your mind right out.

  Would you also like some heroin or cocaine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨choice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If their case is too solid, try eating more fibre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the heads-up, added the internet archive torrent to seed up to 25MB/s