#linux firmware

[adafruit]

Solenoids go clicky-clacky 🔩🔊🤖

We're testing out an I2C-to-solenoid driver today. It uses an MCP23017 expander. We like this particular chip for this usage because it has push-pull outputs, making it ideal for driving our N-channel FETs and flyback diodes. The A port connects to the 8 drivers, while the B port remains available for other GPIO purposes. For this demo, whenever we 'touch' a pin on port B to ground, the corresponding solenoid triggers provide an easy way to check speed and power usage.

[nebula-0-system]

Autistic Shitpost #2

random thing i'm annoyed about: companies that don't provide the keymap.c file so i can compile my own fucking firmware for the keyboard i bought and now own using qmk. just let me fuck with it!!!!!!!!!!

[marescary]

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We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[kevinmarville]

If updating firmware is your quest, transitioning to UEFI mode will unlock those capabilities, though it might require navigating through BIOS settings and potentially reinstalling your OS. Should a mode switch be out of the question, silencing the warning via configuration edits or recompiling

[elcereza]

PICkit2 no Linux: Como usar para gravar PIC

O PICkit2 no Linux não é compatível oficialmente, mas é essencial para automação e desenvolvimento de projetos com microcontroladores PIC.

O PICkit2 no Linux não é compatível oficialmente, mas seu uso é essencial para processo de automação para otimizar o desenvolvimento de projetos e produtos usando PIC. 1. Materiais Necessários Computador Linux (Será usado um Raspberry Pi 4 pare esse processo); Gravador PICkit 2; Microcontrolador PIC (ex. PIC12F683 ou outro modelo compatível). 2. PICkit2 no Linux: Instalação do software A…

[jcmarchi]

PTZOptics Producer Bundles - The Next Chapter in Modern Video Producti - Videoguys

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[problemnyatic]

Yeah yeah linux having problems is a big joke but honestly have you considered that linux wouldn't run like shit if it didn't have to reverse engineer byzantine proprietary drivers and hardware architecture and deliberately hostile BIOS firmware and one thousand other things that exist solely to force everything that isn't a corporate OS to suffer miserably on every computer ever

[foone]

Watching the Chaos Computer Club talks makes me more optimistic about a cyberpunk future.

Because yeah, I'm sure companies will try to do all the horrible cyberpunk shit they can... But now I know for sure that there will be a bunch of brilliant dedicated hackers there to fight them at every turn.

These are the people who figured out how a company was putting GPS-bombs in their trains, who figured out how to steal the encryption keys from Nintendo consoles by glitching the power connector, and figured out that some other hackers were hacking their phones though a web page of a red triangle and the took apart the hack so hard that they discovered the hackers doxxed their own email addresses on accident in the hack.

So yeah I'm sure cyberpunk shit will happen, like your new roboeyes are adding advertisements to the world where there any... But I'm sure there'll be a web page where some trans woman has figured out how to root your eyes and install adblock and sideload doom.

Your prosthetic legs got repo'd when you lost your job, but thankfully all those surplus Gen 2 legs can be reused now because someone figured out how to port Linux to them so they don't run the now-discontinued firmware.

Yeah the government is rolling out that facial recognition system to every lamppost but we figured out how to crash them by wearing QR code makeup that reads "rm -rf /"

It'll be weird and a pain but don't worry. We'll get through. Hackers will ensure it.

[mutter-official]

IM GONNA KILL MICROSOFT

Xbox controller doesnt work correctly wirelessly with linux

so I have to update the firmware on the controller by plugging it into a Windows PC (which is just my daily driver Linux laptop booted to its windows partition)

BUT the fucking "Xbox accessories" app to update the firmware doesnt work until I update windows

so I'm sitting here waiting for WINDOWS FUCKING UPDATE

[autolenaphilia]

Blu-ray DRM is really devilish. I use a program called makemkv to rip them, because there is no other way to play them on my laptop, and there are no legit linux options for blu-ray playback, you have to crack the drm to play them. The easiest solution is makemkv to rip the movies into files, it works out of the box.

But if the level of drm (aacs) on a particular blu-ray is higher than what Makemkv can handle, the disk will update the firmware on your drive to revoke access to makemkv, so it can't access any blu-rays.

"One famous “feature” of AACS is a so-called host revocation. It was designed to ensure that only “approved” software can use your drive. Every Blu-ray disc contains a file that has a list of host keys known to be used by "unauthorized" software. This list has a version number. The moment you insert the disc into your drive, the drive checks if the list is newer than the one it knows about, and if it is, the drive re-flashes itself (updates firmware)."

And that happened to me. It was a blu-ray of the 1972 Hammer horror movie Fear in the Night that did it. The one program that works with my blu-ray player now couldn't access any discs, including ones it had ripped before. And there are absolutely zero linux programs that are authorized to playback blu-ray discs.

I had to flash my drive's firmware to allow something called libredrive, which allows direct access to files and bypasses the aacs drm firmware.

And that was quite the journey. I had makemkv installed as a flatpak via my distro's software manager. and I needed to use the command line. Flatpaks are a great packaging format. but they are primarily for gui apps. So i had to build makemkv from source. And then I had to figure out the commandline for the firmware flashing tool included with makemkv, which was hard because the instructions linked flat out lie. There is no "flash" command for sdftools, there is only "rawflash", you have to read the thread carefully to find that out. This page helped. I had to download new patched libredrive firmware.

And finally i figured out the command I needed ""sdftool -d [drive name] rawflash main,enc -i [new firmware file name].bin. And now I can use my blu-ray drive again. It's now libredrive.

So much work to finally be able to use the drive I paid for, and the blu-ray discs I also paid for. I'm not running some major piracy operation, I just want to be able to watch movies I legally own on my laptop. And drm stopped me, and I had to break it.

This is why DRM is so bad, and anyone who uses it deserves all the piracy they are trying to stop with it. It's scummy to take someone's money and then interfere with their ability to use the copy of the products they own and paid for. It's such atrocious treatment of the customer that anyone who does it deserves to have their stuff pirated.

[juney-blues]

"yeah i agree that large corporations suck but if you want me to use LINUX or GIMP or any free open source alternatives to any firmware or software you're a fucking NERD" your spirit is weak and you have no respect for your computer, either quit with the pretenses and sell your soul to bill gates already or stop being such a whiny baby and learn the basics of how to use a terminal. it's not hard just because you're just not used to it.

[nando161mando]

"My experience with Windows 10 was me turning off the "Bing" features, and one day turning on my computer and discovering overnight with an automatic update Microsoft had turned them back on, and everything I typed into the Start search was being forwarded to a network service. This happened more than once.

It won't be enough to turn Windows 11's "AI" surveillance features off. Based on how they behaved with Win10, you have to assume a feature you turn off today will be silently turned on later."

[nixcraft]

me running fwupdmgr on my linux machine to update my firmware bios ;)

Also check:

Thinkpad update firmware on Linux (X1 extreme/P1 gen2)

How to update Lenovo BIOS from Linux without using Windows

[anhedoniashoujo]

wanna up computer literacy in the newer gens?

make them install and use linux with a partitioned dual boot.

have them make an app to put on their own android phone.

get them into gmod.

have them home brew a 3ds.

show them a 2077 cyberdeck.

show them rugged build computers and custom fabricated cases for portable micro atx builds.

teach them emulation and safe practice torrenting.

teach them to steal.

teach them to love janky tech and cables running across floors and walls and ceilings.

have them learn the components of a motherboard and how to build their own computer.

teach them to install custom firmware in their car's display.

teach them to proxy and how to access sites that aren't suggested by Google.

you know what taught me computer literacy?

i wanted something i couldn't have and made do.

these kids need to learn to be curious.

if you don't look at something and ask yourself "how does that work?" and then learn about it what the fuck are you even alive for?