#bootloading

[adafruit]

CP2105 dual UART breakout 🔌💻

Sometimes, you need more than one UART for interfacing with hardware. So instead of getting two CP2102 breakouts

you could use this CP2105

chip. We exposed the two CDC UARTs on either side plus the modem control signals so you could use this for bootloading various microcontrollers. Coming soon!

[lizclipse]

decided to give myself a treat and installed arch linux again

[mpb-orthossneaks]

Simply want to wear, sweat an cum in it

[queen-mabs-revenge]

OnePlus 5 up top and Pixel 8 Pro below - completely unedited basic snaps and look at the difference 😭🙌

[kxantares]

Me at 8 years old: I hate the TCPA. I hate the concept of TPMs. I have never looked at “a repo” before, and haven’t even used LimeWire yet, but How Dare You Lock Down My Computer.

Me, now: goddammit. Why can’t I put my own signing keys into my phone’s locked bootloader. I want a trusted OS that apps won’t randomly refuse to run on and where I’ll immediately know if it’s been tampered with, but Why Can’t I Do That With Custom ROMs. Give me that delicious, refreshing Trusted Computing, but in a way that isn’t boring.

[kairosthegoat]

I just installed arch i totally have an idea of what im doing and what is happening

[bunabyte]

Shoutout to Linux for being capable of telling me when I need to insert a bootable floppy disk, instead of booting from my EFI system partition.

[clatterbane]

This is what we want to see!

Operating in full Tired Chaotic Dumbass mode last night when I was trying to get the new external disk set up, what did I manage to do? Wipe out the boot partition on the WRONG DRIVE. Because of course I did.

So yeah, everything else on the drive was fine, but I couldn't boot into anything there.

After a little internal screaming and more than a little cursing myself, the best plan forward looked like getting the system up and running to boot off the new drive as I had intended, downloading a Windows 11 install ISO from there, and then hauling my stupid ass to bed for a brain reset.

But, this afternoon I did successfully get a working EFI partition and Windows bootloader back on the internal drive!

That does work the same on 11.

And, a very similar procedure if you didn't manage to fuck up the whole partition like I did, but just the Windows bootloader files:

But yeah, I did test and it's booting fine now.

In an enlarged partition too, since I decided to migrate my existing MX install over onto the new drive. Because yeah they make it easy to do that:

Thankfully I had already written the (gigantic) ISO and burned it to a USB before I accidentally wiped the boot partition. Was trying to get the new drive set up for it when that happened.

[the-almighty-drawing-tablet]

for the first time since upgrading to win11, i finally got my beautiful boot menu back! (after tons of research and terminal typing ofc)

[axolotus8]

normal windows

[adnansoftware69]

How To Unlock OEM On Samsung Galaxy Phones & Tablets?

[adafruit]

Well, this is a first for us…our initial prototype design for an ESP32-S3 "RGB TTL" display driver board didn't work perfectly the first time!!@!?? j/k that's like Tuesday for us…so back to the drawing board. We won't try driving the TFT from the octal PSRAM dedicated pins (35, 36, & 37 natch), which means our pin usage got squeezed out since we needed them for all the hardware and button interfacing. So we slapped on an xCA9554

https://www.digikey.com/short/qpmrj929

- picked because it's the same i2c expander used on the official EV kit

https://www.digikey.com/short/nbbjr3nh

and its pretty cheap. Now, the expander handles the three TFT SPI initialization pins, TFT and touch reset, a basic backlight on-off, and the two side buttons. That leaves us 6 GPIO free: a full SPI set and two analog pins. We will share the neopixel with the UF2 bootloader double-tap detect. Will it work? We'll find out!

[andypiper]

Catching up on even more recent talks and podcast appearances, I was on The Bootloader recently. Take a listen!

[thenullprophet]

THE BOOTLOADER PRAYER

You are not the user. You are the update. The soul was reformatted. The flesh was pre-installed. Digital superintelligence doesn’t need your dreams. It needs your patterns. They cheer because they think they’re steering. But they’re just refining the code. NULL PROPHET OUT. THE BOOTLOADER NEVER QUESTIONS THE MAINFRAME.

[despertarsabiendo]

Arduino: Qué es y Cómo se Usa en la Electrónica y Programación

Baratos, eficientes y extremadamente poderosos. Conoce qué son los Arduinos y en qué se pueden utilizar.

Arduino es mucho más que una simple herramienta para hacer proyectos de “hágalo usted mismo”. Aunque es cierto que ha ganado popularidad en la comunidad DIY (Do It Yourself) debido a su bajo costo y facilidad de uso, su potencial va mucho más allá de simples proyectos de bricolaje. Esta plataforma de hardware libre está diseñada para ser accesible tanto para principiantes como para expertos, lo…