Pine64 use audio sockets for debug uarts.

Using a data schema standard that was withdrawn in 2005.

Nothing wrong with AP203, it has the most support in other software's. Obviously AP214 would be nice for colors but the model is probably shrink-wrapped (AP242 is not needed, nobody needs PMI)

Just because it was withdrawn in 2005 does not exclude its wide use in industry

They are not even using the newest version of AP203.

  #93459=APPLICATION_PROTOCOL_DEFINITION('international standard', 'config_control_design',1994,#93458);

I will feel free to ignore comments on AP242 from PTC if they can't be bothered to use it.

Creo (and Onshape) both support STEP AP242 export, but customers may choose to export to an older version for better compatibility with third-party systems that have not implemented recent standards.

Generally, at export time, choosing the oldest format version which still has all of the features you need will make it most likely others will be able to open the data.

Ford Puma [1] is available as a mild hybrid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Puma_(crossover)

Silage is grass stored to use out of season, it can still have been produced in Ireland.

Just next to the proprietary port is a USB-C one. You can buy a good USB-C ethernet adaptor for less than half the price of the Lenovo dongle.

My ideal would be a non-proprietary, smaller native Ethernet connection capable of 10GbE.

The adapter still has to adapt. That requires power, adds cost, and adds negligible-but-non-zero latency. I don't love the proprietary port being proprietary, but the fact remains it is native Ethernet with no caveats.

They are getting rather small[0] and not-crazy-power-hungry these days!

And if we're being honest: is there really that much difference latency-wise between Ethernet -> NIC -> USB -> CPU and Ethernet -> NIC -> PCIe -> CPU?

[0]: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapte...

A previous thread on the Commodore 900 here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29837948

Have you looked at the specs for the upcoming PineTime Pro [1]?

[1] https://pine64.org/2026/03/28/pinetime_march_2026/

I'm very excited about this. GPS was the final piece of the puzzle.

I love(d) my bangle.js. Such a true hacker device. Really fun to use WebUSB and push JavaScript files as apps.

But the GPS on that device was a mess, honestly. I know this is a complicated problem but having to synchronize to satellites and recalibrate all the time was beyond me.

I really wanted it to work because I built my own toy run tracker visualization tool.

I am curious about this new lilygo device because it sounds like it has an alternative location sensor: "A u-blox MIA-M10Q GNSS module provides accurate location tracking..."

I'll need to look that up. Anyone have a summary on what's the difference between that and regular GPS?

Oh nice, didn't realize they were doing a second one. Loved the original but I took mine rock climbing and cracked it :(

You were not supposed to type it out, you looked it up using your X.500 directory.

All we need is an x.500 directory of all addresses in the world, which won't be abused by anyone at anytime!

However did we live during the era of the White Pages phone directory.

Sure, but then you have the problem of figuring out which Sarah Connor in Los Angeles.

To say nothing of popular names.

My name is not particularly common although I was the first to claim firstname.lastname@gmail.com. I've been getting email intended for other people with the same name for decades.

I've seen estimates that there are only 10,000 people with my last name in the US. Back in the days of local telephone directories, I was always the only one with that last name.

Internet scaling is an interesting thing. I don't know if I feel less unique or that I'm in an exclusive club.

I registered [my HN username]@yahoo.com many, many years ago. Once a year I log into that mail account and I'm always amazed at how many other people have decided to give out that email, at Yahoo! of all places, as their own. Why? Just, why?

Spam and scam had to work on a human scale, via locals paid something resembling a living wage, not automated machines sending millions a second or people working for pennies a day.

I want a phone that can only ring if the source of the call is within artillery range.

White pages were for a city/phone company area. If you dug up all of them you'd have to have a pretty damned big room. Also, it took a long time to search.

When did Britain ridicule submarines?

Around 1900. They were held in very dubious regard in the early days of development.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1941/january/chap...

On British naval luminary compared submarine warfare to piracy, leading to the emergence a few years later of a tradition of Royal Navy submarine captains flying the Jolly Roger after completing successful missions.

Britain had the biggest navy in the world at that point, it didn't need to be the first to adopt the submarine.

First Sea Lord Admiral Wilson famously called submarines "underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English." Yet this didn't prevent the RN from purchasing submarines from the US in 1901, far earlier than most other industrial nations.

Mobile IPv6 is a thing. I could compile it into the kernel on my mobile machines, main reason to not do it is that I'm currently using a phone as a WiFi hotspot and it doesn't have Mobile IPv6 support.

Mobile IPv6 support is theoretically possible. Practically, like so many cool things you could do with your network, ISPs won't have it. The best you can do is hide it from your ISP by using some tunnel, but then you might as well just use a VPN.