I was debating replacing the head unit in my old VW, but I actually like that it has a six-disc CD changer, SD card slot (32GB max, with support for MP3, WAV, etc.), 40-pin iPod connection, and regular AUX in. I use my phone with a USB-C DAC and have never felt like I needed anything else. With AUX I can plug in my Walkmans as well (both cassette and MiniDisc)!

Dangerous, but hilarious (Dubai raver has set up a 303 and 606 to make acid house while he drives): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwYtjQk0QaU

Fedora upgrades have usually been great, but I jumped the gun on Fedora 44. Sound completely dead with no Pipewire service available. ALSA not responding. Firefox dies immediately if I open a new tab or right click anywhere on the browser itself (inlcuding nightly builds). QEMU refuses to load. Maybe something got completely f'd in the upgrade process.. I never had an issue before having upgraded from Fedora 38 all the way to 43. I am too tired to investigate it all.

I know this is unrelated to the article, but related to the title.

I have had none of those issues on Fedora 44, FWIW.

ditto. my upgrade from 43 - 44 went very smooth

Turns out it was a pipewire.conf file causing some sort of crash (nothing in logs show anything). If I remove that file, everything works.

FYI this was on a laptop that began life from version 42. My main PC started out on 38 and has made it to 43 with no problems (including a motherboard swap).. will be updating to 44 this weekend.

If this is still the same install that you've been using since 38, you might find a clean install resolves some issues (whether or not your upgrade got botched). Also helps me get rid of software I installed that I don't use anymore, which I feel is relevant to this article. But part of why I love Silverblue so much is I don't have to worry about upgrades getting botched and fwiw as well, I haven't noticed any of those bugs on 44 across several very different machines.

I had a day 1 crashloop with KWin on the 2nd desktop, but on day 2 some package update fixed it. Honestly it isn't the first time Fedora upgrades have messed something up for me either but I do think it's more stable than the average Ubuntu release, not that I've upgraded ubuntu in like 5 yrs.

Fedora 44 here, no issues.

PCI-E has had the same standard since its inception: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc. USB has changed multiple times and has remained confusing for the vast majority of people. What was 3.0 is now not 3.0. Even 3.1 has changed. There is no reason to use this naming convention they currently have but for some reason they stick with it..

The problem with USB, is the revisions are all encompasing. So USB 2.0 includes the 1.5 Mbps and 12.0 Mbps modes from usb 1.x as well as the new 480 Mbps mode, so you could have a USB 2.0 device that only did 12 Mbps (high speed!). It might actually be your old usb 1.1 device with a new label.

PCI-e requires hosts and devices to be backwards compatible, but the interface speed is a required part of the spec. Nobody makes a PCI-E 2.0 device that only works with PCI-E 1.0 encodings/speeds, or anyway, it wouldn't be acceptable.

PCIe also had things like "1.1", "2.1" and "3.1" - that fixed issues and added functionality - but there wasn't the same crossover between "feature sets and spec revisions" and "speeds" we see in USB today.

Manufacturers of mainstream consumer motherboards never used 1.1, 2.1, etc. for PCI-E though. What is 4.0 on the spec sheet will be 4.0 to the buyer. My old 2016 motherboard has a slew of 3.0 labelled USB ports that are now not 3.0, hence the conundrum. It just doesn't make sense why they changed established naming conventions. Is this something that causes me sleepless nights? Not in the least. But it's still an annoyance for consumers and even advanced users as detailed in that latest Geerling video et al.

1.1 was very much commonly used in consumer marketing, to the level where there's many instances today of people referring to pcie1.x speeds as "1.1". And I'm pretty sure I've seen 2.1 in consumer marketing contexts. But you're right I didn't know 3.1 existed until I looked it up :p

But USB 3.0 is pretty much the only "speed" that hasn't changed - it always required the extra connectors for 5Gbps from the start - but no more. What about those ports is now not "3.0"?

Possibly they stick with it because it's usable (ish) and it was driving everyone up the wall when they'd change it?

I'm not yet ready to upgrade my old laptop yet, but this could change things. The RAM prices will probably put a damper on that however. Not ready to spend that much money on what will prob drop in a year or two (hopefully not 3).

My main system still uses a Vega 64 and it plays all the games I'd care about. Undervolts like a champ! Will use it until it dies..

Mine is a Vega 56 that thinks it's a Vega 64. It plays Hitman pretty well, and thats really all I need it for.

I remember the pregnancy test Doom. Wasn't it "running" on the display only?

Yes, I think it was, but that was also b/c, IIRC, the pregnancy tester had a CPU, too. A CPU can actually run things.

DNS … cannot, and that's why the person upthread is criticizing the use of the word "run" here. DNS ran nothing.

No it wasn't, it just was the display. My commented example in this thread states that in every device your are running Zork I-III or any z-machine v3 compatible game it's actually hosting the interpreter and the game itself, from the Game Boy to an smartphone, a PC, an old PDA...

It wasn’t even the test’s original display, IIRC; they just re-used the housing and inserted a fancier display.

They replaced both the display and the microcontroller with something like an Adafruir Trinket.

I'm enjoying my Sensor Watch Pro so far. That's all the sensors I need in a watch as of now

I would like to see this!

You can still pay with cash!

Wow, this is a good flashback! Used to use patterns on his site almost 20 years ago. Pretty sure HW Bush was in office