Rebuilding the computer room

We traded the physical boundaries of dedicated rooms for the convenience of our always-on digital lives -- but recently I've been building those walls back up.

Wasserkühlung für Notebooks ist auch bei den derzeitigen Temperaturen nur so semi clever.
Mal sehen, ob das Teil die Dusche des Kollegen überlebt hat. Aber erstmal lufttrocknen.

#computer #hardware #buro #shithappens

Repaired a GPU yesterday, I had never seen someone putting thermal pad on the die xD #computer #gpu #rtxoff

Ich meine, natürlich ist diese Schiri-Ansicht toll... Aber stellt euch mal vor wie toll es wäre, eine Videowand mit VIELEN Ansichten zu haben... Von jedem Spieler! Das wäre bestimmt... 23 mal besser! Mindestens!

#noerdman #comic #comics @noerdman #informatik #digital #digitalisierung #technologie #technik #computer #fußball #fifaworldcup #worldcup2026 #technik @DFKI @unibremen @dsc_bremen @informatik @jus

Linux 7.2 RC1 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC1 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

  • PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
  • Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
  • Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
  • Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
  • Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
  • Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
  • USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
  • Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
  • Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
  • Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
  • AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
  • Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

So two weeks have passed, and the merge window is closed. Things look reasonably normal for this release (knock wood), and I'm appending my merge shortlog below, since we obviously have much to many changes to list individually.

The stats look pretty normal, although another AMD header drop means that a third of the patch is just various AMD GPU register definitions.

That's not unusual in itself, and if you ignore that part the rest looks pretty normal too: just over half the patch is drivers (even when _not_ counting that AMD register dump, other GPU driver changes show up, but we've got a little bit of everything in there), with the rest being the usual spread of architecture updates, tooling, documentation, and core kernel updates.

I'm going to take the next week mostly off, but I'm reading email and keeping up with things. But I hope it's going to be a fairly calm week. If I have longer latencies than usual, you'll know why.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

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Sachsens Minister drängt vor Chipfabrik-Eröffnung auf Tempo

Kurz vor der Eröffnung der neuen Chipfabrik in Dresden erhöht Sachsens Wirtschaftsminister den Druck auf Brüssel. Es geht um schnellere Genehmigungen und Europas Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.

Die Sachsen News
Today I present the Linux Repair Café Oirsbeek at the garage sale Puth with flyers, continue presentations of benefits of Linux, sales of Linux Mint flash drive, second hand computers (some with Linux Mint), 22" screens, new mice, new keyboards, parts ...
From 10.00 - 14.00 h in the south of The Netherlands between the Belgium and German borders.
#garagesaleputh #oirsbeek #garagesale #puth #linux #repaircafe #linuxmint #computer #screen #mice #mouse #keyboard #nederland #netherlands #belgie #belgium #deutschland #duitsland #germany

Dell Latitude 5300 2-in-1 Laptop

Convertible laptop (screen folds 180 degrees to turn into a hefty tablet). Currently running antiX Linux, but will come with NO OS. Touchscreen; Linux support works great with the touchscreen. No charger included, works with either a Dell properitary 19V barrel jack charger or a USB-C PD charger (60W+ recommended). Has the usual collection of dings and scratches expected on an older laptop, but no substantial damage.

As an optional bonus, I have a bunch of extra parts for Dell 5300 laptops. If you're a tinkerer I'll include them at no extra cost; if you don't want the parts that's fine too!

Specs are:

256GB SSD
Intel i5 8365U (4C8T @ 4.10 GHz)
16GB RAM
Intel UHD integrated GPU
1920x1080 touchscreen display

$150 shipped

#fedisale #laptop #computer #hardware #sale #gaming