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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @suihkulokki@society.oftrolls.com
Edited 9 days ago
@suihkulokki looking at news magic battery looks like a huge hoax :D weird that they ended up collaborating.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @suihkulokki@society.oftrolls.com
@suihkulokki OK but battery technology is still somewhat question mark, isn't it? I.e. only claims and rumours
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
@suihkulokki "AK-47 - accept no subsitutes" ;-)

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/kalashnikov-has-made-its-own-retro-ev
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
@suihkulokki still the motorcycle looks savvy despite being probably fake :-) or like russian EV ....
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
@suihkulokki Yep, I'd bet for some sort of scam...
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @suihkulokki@society.oftrolls.com
@suihkulokki Yeah, so I don't know. We'll see :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Solid state batteries from Finland:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/donut-labs-solid-state-battery-powered-motorcycle-turned-heads-ces-2026

Svolt CEO has declared this as scam based on that "if China cannot deliver solid state, neither can anyone else" 🤷
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Jarkko Sakkinen

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/21/can-you-slim-macos-down/
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Jarkko Sakkinen

This is a life-saver if you need a framebuffer and pixels: https://github.com/emoon/minifb

my favorite graphics library :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @miiko@social.darxxide.eu
Edited 12 days ago
@miiko @jani Pragmatically speaking, inbox location does not matter that much :-) If it does, then you would encrypt it (with OpenPGP) anyhow. Intelligence services can obviously download all your email traffic if they want, without access to your account.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jani@floss.social
@jani I will for sure :-) Thanks for kicking my ass. Otherwise, I likely would not be working on it.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
@jani It took one year of motivation exercises and three hours of active work to accomplish the changes that were in the backlog...
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
@jani BTW, were you asking about loopback driver or was it someone else? Yesterday, after year not touching the code I migrated the driver to use VB2, remove all other features except capture, and implemented file descriptor based life-cycle model for the /dev/videoX devices.

Someone pinged me about i t around Dec and that got me so stressed that I actually had to open the text editor ;-)

Those three issues were basically lowest common denominator to send RFC patches. I need to polish what I came up for some time but it is now in my internal queue :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
Edited 12 days ago
@jani More older I get, less I want to do myself. I turn every rock before I realize, "this actually needs to be done". It's like sending fucking special forces, when you touch the text editor and write code or configure software manually :-D
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jani@floss.social
@jani For email, and especially for managing multiple subaddresses such as iki.fi and kernel.org forward, I've fallen in love with Fastmail recently (about a year ago) :-) They've really polished that service in recent years.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jarkko
@jani I.e., I realized that hacking kernel does make neither a data storage expert nor even half-decent sysadmin ;-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Reply to @jani@floss.social
@jani I tried to do that once and lost three years worth photographs :-) After that I bought Asustor 6404T (the most recent model at the time) and plain and stupid Dropbox subscription...
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Jarkko Sakkinen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt_DIa8l-zY
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Jarkko Sakkinen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt_DIa8l-zY
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 12 days ago
Not actually sure what would be correct location in the kernel tree for video loopback driver. It's ATM in v4l2-core which is probably where it should NOT be...
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