✧✦Catherine✦✧2d ago

i think if your network card has "UEFI secure boot" you have done something wrong. probably a lot of things

i counted at least 6 different pieces of firmware when looking at it component by component (if you can call a 128 GB eMMC with Ubuntu on it "firmware")

Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧2d ago

i thought this network card runs linux

i was wrong. it runs TWO copies of linux

Show threadthunfisch
@whitequark @s0 okay, but does it run crysis?
Apr 8 at 5:01amWeb
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧2d ago
@thunfisch @s0 it has 32 GB of DDR5 and a PCIe root complex. I bet I can make it happen
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧2d ago
@thunfisch @s0 the soc is an aarch64 device probably fast enough to run qemu and wine
Show threadthunfisch2d ago
@whitequark @s0 I love the fact that you seem to be seriously considering it 😅
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧2d ago
@thunfisch @s0 you did ask!
Show threadthunfisch2d ago
@whitequark @s0 fair :) more as a shitpost than anything else but deep down I am a bit curious.
Show threadClaudius2d ago

@thunfisch @whitequark @s0 reminds me of that time where someone installed Linux on their harddrive. That is, "ran it on a relatively beefy controller chip on that HDD".

Sadly, it's been 10+ years, and I can't find that post any more :-(

Show threadthunfisch2d ago
@claudius @whitequark @s0 omg that's awesome. Imagining the conversations. The meme potential. The hysterical laughter that follows.
Show threadthunfisch2d ago

@claudius @whitequark @s0

...and of course it was spritesmods. Absolute legend.

https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack

Sprites mods - Hard disk hacking - Intro

Show threadClaudius2d ago

@thunfisch @whitequark @s0 This time I'm bookmarking it :-D

Thanks for finding it again!

Show threadKat S2d ago
@whitequark On a network card.
@thunfisch @s0
Show threadthunfisch2d ago

@KatS @whitequark @s0 We call these things a "DPU" and pretend that it's fine. If you wanna read how well that can go, there's https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion .

Be warned though, there be dragons in that article that can't be unread.

How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars

Inside the complacency and decisions that eroded trust in Azure—from a former Azure Core engineer.

Axel’s Substack
Show threadLarge Format Projectionist2d ago

@thunfisch @KatS @whitequark @s0

Let’s also be warned that this is just one point of view. I don’t mean that it’s wrong, but it may be *limited.*

Show threadFiona2d ago
@whitequark @thunfisch Sounds like you could probably compile firmware for one of the Linux-running parts on the other! ​​
Show thread✧✦Catherine✦✧2d ago
@airtower @thunfisch definitely
Show threadD22d ago

@whitequark @thunfisch @s0 I mean, do we say crysis gets easier or harder when device is intentionally headless?

Edit: goddammit, autocorrect. It’s crysis with a y. (Said in a ‘mom, you’re embarrassing me’ tone)

Show threadthunfisch2d ago
@cascheranno @whitequark @s0 Just yeet out an ST2110-20 stream of the framebuffer and call it a day? :D