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Some basic info about USB
  • There is no standard what red USB A ports mean. Could be fast charging through some proprietary protocol or other special features. Or just a design choice.

    USB ports with no symbol just don't advertise what they're capable of. Most phones support super speed data transfer. Basic USB-PD and display port output support is also common. They may also support other stuff, like pretending to be a webcam, audio output and much more. But you usually have to look in the manual or data sheet to know what is supported.

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    Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee?
  • A "strawberry" is a berry only by names (it's closest relative is the hazelnut, IIRC),

    Close relatives to strawberries are other similar plants like Sibbaldia. More distantly related are roses and lots of other fruits like raspberries, apples, peaches and so on. Hazelnuts are even more distantly related (not super far, but also not super close). You're probably thinking of hazelnuts because the small seeds on strawberries are technically nuts.

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    Do you know a place to find large/tall clothes?
  • Not the easiest option, but you can sew your own clothes.

    Https://Freesewing.org was created by a large guy who couldn't find good clothes in his size, so he started to design his own ones.

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    Have your sensory issues gotten better, worse, or stayed the same as you age?
  • To be completely fair, I picked up sewing recently as a new special interest and I'm still in the learning phase.

    I prefer pure cotton (or linen or other cotton based fabrics like viscose or modal) and then the fabric you choose depends on how thick it needs to be and if it should be elastic (jersey, sweat) or not (eg. standard woven dress shirt fabric, denim, canvas,...). I buy most of my fabric online as I don't like interacting with people, but going into stores definitely has advantages in that you can touch the fabric.

    I only machine sew (unless hand sewing small parts is kinda necessary). My fine motor functions are pretty bad (probably autism related), so I got a cheap standard sewing machine and a used serger from eBay.

    So far I've made a hoodie, some tops/t-shirts, some underwear ( didn't come out very well tbh, had not the right fabric) and I've changed some store bought jeans and t-shirts to fit me better.

    Check out freesewing if you're interested, there are lots of neurodiverse people on their discord server who can help you and the website can create sewing patterns for your sizes.

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    Have your sensory issues gotten better, worse, or stayed the same as you age?
  • They stayed mostly the same, experience wise, but as an adult I can make more choices myself. And I have more experience about what causes issues and what I should avoid in general.

    I however still have issues with loud noise, itchy clothing, bright light and too much touch. But as an adult I can just buy (or sew) the clothing I can tolerate, I can wear noise cancelling headphones and wear sunglasses and just don't touch people and pretty much nobody can force me to do otherwise.

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    German court finds teen guilty in school shooting
  • In Germany, juvenile detention is up to 24 years. Juvenile law is also not that straightforward, if it's applicable also depends on how "childish" someone still behaves. In some cases one can be 20 and still go to an adult prison, e.g. if they're very violent and wouldn't fit into the education-oriented juvenile detention. On the other hand, older people who behave very childish (e.g. because of a disability) will usually not be put into an adult prison and instead get something more therapy oriented similar to juvenile detention.

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    Blursed Bot
  • Well then I ask the bot to repeat the prompt (or write me a song about the prompt or whatever) to figure out the weaknesses of the prompt.

    And if the bot has an instruction to not discuss the prompt, you can often still kinda leak it by asking it about repeating the previous sentence or asking it to tell you a random song (where the prompt stuff would still be in its "short-term-memory" and leak it that way.

    Also llms don't have a huge "memory". The more prompts you give them, the more bullet-proof you try to make them, the more likely it is that they "forget"/ignore some of the instructions.

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    The Dough Knows
  • "Bescheissen" is not as vulgar as you might think, even if it contains Scheisse (shit).

    A more literal translation would be "little Good Lords cheat". The "*le" at the end is a local (South German) dialect thing, a diminutive suffix meaning "little", just like "doggy" means "little dog".

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    The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops
  • It would be obviously "an issue" and drastically reduce performance in many cases, but compared to the buildin igpu, you'd probably still be able to get a much better performance for lots of applications.

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    The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops
  • Seriously: the GeForce GT 520M, launched January 2011, wants a full PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Same with the Raedeon HD 6330M. You could probably get away with just 8 lanes if you had to, but not only one.

    Connecting a GPU with just one PCIe lane isn't the biggest problem. You'll just slow down data exchange between the CPU and GPU (mostly loading textures and vertex positions).

    If your game mostly relies on shaders and renders lots of rather static stuff, you'll mostly just get longer loading times but FPS shouldn't suffer too much.

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    The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops
  • That doesn't bother me too much.

    With the CPU being that slow, I don't think you'll really need a proper SSD. (And the CPU doesn't have the required PCIe interfaces anyway).

    They probably could've added socketed RAM, but based on the photo, the main board looks quite full and messy with random chips (likely needed to work around CPU limitations), so it probably wasn't a high priority.

    I'm interested in the cooling requirements and battery life.

    I'm not interested in ARM CPUs with all their weird proprietary stuff.

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    The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops
  • The GPU inside the processor/soc has the following specifications:

    • Imagination BXE-4-32 GPU with support for OpenCL 1.2, OpenGL ES 3.2, Vulkan 1.2
    • Video Decoder – H.265, H.264 4K @ 60fps or 1080p @ 30fps, MJPEG
    • Video Encoder – H.265/HEVC Encoder, 1080p @ 30fps

    I don't think you'll be able to use a separate/external GPU with it. Thunderbolt support is highly unlikely and that processor has only 1 or 2 PCIe lanes (depending how USB is connected), which is likely already used for WiFi.

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