I don’t know if it’s that cut and dry. If you study a Operative Systems class or buy a book about them, it’ll exclusively deal with the kernel.
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Are reading what you write? It’s linux so it isn’t?
Yeah, they’re mostly bits of hardware that turn ttl/serial into a USB device. Then you can use minicom or dterm to connect to the host. Mostly used for embedded development, but also useful for debugging servers that are not connecting to the network without having to lug a keyboard and screen.
After they’re connected, if they speak vt110, your terminal emulator can display everything properly
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytesEnglish103·2 years agowhen you format a 256GB drive and find out that you don’t actually have 256GB
Most of the time you have at least 256GB. It’s just you 256GB=238.4GiB, and windows reports GiB but calls them GB. You wouldn’t have that problem in Mac OS that counts GB properly, or gnome that counts GiB and calls them GiB.
(This is ignoring the few MB that takes to format a drive, but that’s also space on the disk and you’re the one choosing to partition and format the drive. If you dumped a file straight into the drive you’d get that back, but it would be kind of inconvenient)
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats sayEnglish89·2 years agoBecause they get paid to endorse it.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fightEnglish2·2 years agoTrue, but that’s more about the relationship between Google and phone manufacturers and and carriers. As far as a party like Epic is concerned, it shouldn’t have any relation. As far as epic goes, they’re only affected by the opt in process to install apks, and apps not being allowed to install apps (which I hope has a way more complicated opt in process if it’s allowed or malware will be rampant among casual users)
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage appEnglish1·2 years agoYeah, that’s what I’m saying. The only available information is the metadata, not messages
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage appEnglish1·2 years agoNot really, they’ve always been big on being incompatible for the sake of locking in people: adb, FireWire, iPod requiring iTunes, etc.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage appEnglish1·2 years agoYou mean all that metadata? As far as we know, all messages are e2e encrypted and no one has proven it otherwise.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"English2·2 years agoIt’s because that’s not a common definition and it’s not even a good one. No normal person would call cloning stealing. Also, this completely misses lending, gifting, downloading a webpage or even renting. All of those would be stealing under this definition.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net•Most Americans want to electrify their homes — if they can keep their gas stoves267·2 years agoAnd they’re terrible at cooking: any change in temperature, including heating up takes a ton.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consolesEnglish3·2 years agoYeah, it’s been a while so it’s time to drop it. I don’t think you can even buy a new ps4 at a major retailer anymore even.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more moneyEnglish264·2 years agoIt’s got poor visibility but so does every other truck/suv being sold in America.
Maybe, but the cyber truck has especially bad rear visibility. Worse.than any of its competitors
but it’s still longer than the average person would realistically drive in a day.
I must be a special, fantasy person that does road trips with 700mi or longer drives
Not to mention it’s 3000 kilos. They really need to start adding vehicle weight limits to licenses. The US license test is a joke in most states, and then people are allowed to drive 3 metric ton vehicles from a 10 minute drive.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.English1·2 years agoYes, but that’s a different, independent problem.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.English9·2 years agoNFTs or blockchains are not needed for this. You could just implement selling or transfers in the content platform.
I do think using contacts for escrow and having the sale being independent from the vendor are cool features, bit not at all essential ones.
Lightning’s data transfer and charging are subpar, although I’m not sure if Apple is implementing PD fast charging on the new iPhone either.
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’English61·2 years agoJust because he compared it to a suburban doesn’t mean that the Mitsubishi mirage and used Corollas aren’t a thing.
And sure the Chevy Bolt is 26k, but that’s still 5k more expensive than a new Corolla and has like half the range, and you can fuel the Corolla way faster.
Might be that the only ev I’ve driven for long was an i3, but I was not impressed by the acceleration
Phrodo_00@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloudEnglish11·2 years agoall interpreters have a compilation step that produces machine code
Very much not a thing. JIT interpreters are actually not that common. Most interpreters parse code to an AST in memory and then run execute said AST, without any compilation to machine code.
the output of the standard javac compiler is not machine code that a processor understands. This is what makes Java not a compiled language.
Listen to yourself the output of the compiler makes it not a compiled language. Java is a compiled language, and jvm bytecode can be compiled (see graalvm), or interpreted (and when interpreted it can be JITd)
I think some distros disable using RSA by default. Might need to use it explicitly.