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Microsoft needs to be taken down a peg or two thousand

https://maff.scot/2023/06/eure-h...

I am once again calling for government intervention because the free market is a lie (Microsoft is being more monopolistic with Edge than they ever were before)

14.6.2023 10:59Microsoft needs to be taken down a peg or two thousand
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Bypassing a bone-headed battery block

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Note: This article discusses mechanisms for updating the BIOS and Embedded Controller of computers that haven't been made in almost 20 years. Exercise an abundance of caution when attempting to follow, reproduce or build off of my findings. These computers only get more rare over time, and while a bad BIOS flash may be recoverable, […]

20.6.2022 12:32Bypassing a bone-headed battery block
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Oh god, social media

https://maff.scot/2022/04/oh-god...

Hey guess what! Twitter sucks. It's sucked for years, it's getting worse, and they've just announced the addition of an actual child to their board.

5.4.2022 17:32Oh god, social media
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Thoughts on the ODROID Go series

https://maff.scot/2020/07/though...

For reasons of “push button, receive serotonin and electronic gubbins”, I have both the original ODROID Go and the newer Go Advance. I’ll try to give a rundown of the two, my thoughts on the final assembled kit, the modifications I’ve made, and the potential future for them. The ODROID Go This was an odd […]

28.7.2020 23:54Thoughts on the ODROID Go series
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Taking a ride on the Universal Serial Bus

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Having some fun with USB, I reverse-engineer and document the communication protocol used by the Paperang-brand thermal printers, and implement it in C#

21.10.2019 00:00Taking a ride on the Universal Serial Bus
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