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  1. Thanks, I might give it a go some time in the near future. Building on Debian/Ubuntu does look straightforward according to published instructions, should be applicable to Raspberry Pi OS, although there's a question about the state of ARM support in the codebase. I stumbled upon a post by Moonchild few years back that support is supposed to be there and they do provide official Mac OS binaries for ARM, although Mac's ARM is supposedly its own thing, which they might have addressed at the later point, when standard ARM support was already there.
  2. Is it just me, or are the forums rather inefficient communication medium? I feel like almost every time I post something on another forum with much more traffic, my topic immediately gets left behind. Sometimes you may be lucky to get a response if the right person just logged in at the right time, but generally, the forums look like a complete mess with topics popping up all the time.
  3. Bet they wouldn't like Linux either (or some other Unix-like OS). But what else is there? I know, throwing the computer out the window!
  4. Aye, though I've unlocked the bootloader on my Sony not long after I bought it (and voided the warranty). No regrets!
  5. Looks like a Windows Forms app using the old WebBrowser control, uses Internet Explorer engine that's installed with the OS. We did stuff like that back in high school when starting out with GUI programs written in C#. It was good for the fundamentals, getting familiar with form editor in Visual Studio and event driven programming. But it's not an Internet Explorer fork, you can't fork proprietary closed-source browser. Replacements for WebBrowser control these days are Edge WebView2 or CEFSharp.
  6. Part of my stylesheet dealing with reputation system on MSFN: @-moz-document url-prefix("https://msfn.org/board/topic/") { .ipsReact { display: none; } } @-moz-document url-prefix("https://msfn.org/board/profile/") { div.ipsReact_reactCountOnly { display: none; } } @-moz-document regexp("https:\/\/msfn\.org\/board\/\??(?:&?[^=&]*=[^=&]*)*") { li[data-blocktitle="Popular Contributors"] { display: none; } div.cWidgetContainer:nth-child(1) > ul:nth-child(1) { transform: rotate(180deg); } div.cWidgetContainer:nth-child(1) > ul:nth-child(1) > li { transform: rotate(-180deg); } } The order of elements on the sidebar is also changed so Topics comes first.
  7. Must have been 9 years since I was in the cinema last time. Seems too much bother these days, I resort to torrents at the odd time I feel like watching a movie. The list from recent years is short, I watched The Matrix Resurrections (2021) in 2022, Storm of the Century (1999) in 2020, The Matrix trilogy (1999, 2003), Idiocracy (2006) and A Quiet Place (2018) in 2019. There are 2 quizzes and 1 satire on local TV channels that I do watch on the more regular basis though.
  8. I'm not a coder either. I was more enthusiastic about it when I was younger and free from having to work for a living. Hacked up some stuff together, some published, some not. I find the whole thing rather boring these days, takes forever to get anywhere. I don't have forever anymore and I'd rather not be glued to the screen 16 hours a day. Feature requests? Yeah, I'm sick of those at work. Number of bizarre ones among them. I'm not in a position to implement them or decide whether they get implemented, I'm just a messenger. I'm feeling more disconnected from IT as I get older, wondering a lot of time what's the point of it all. A browser is a browser, a text editor is a text editor, a toaster is a toaster. People seem to be making an elephant out of everything. Why bother? An EMP blast can send everything to kingdom come in an instant.
  9. 2 ways come to mind: Hold Alt and type 32 on numeric keypad. On-Screen Keyboard, which comes with Windows. There are also tricks involving remapping one of the existing keys to Space, but I haven't dug into specifics of those.
  10. As a new owner of Raspberry Pi 5, I shall demand an arm64 version with utmost stubbornness! Oh, who am I kidding, I know nothing will happen unless I try to do it myself...
  11. I don't know, I have it on December 2023 cumulative update level, with ExplorerPatcher activating the old Win10 taskbar. Mentally exhausted...
  12. Guess it reflects the state of modern crazy society.
  13. I don't really have to use it either, must have been curious, so I put it on the smaller partition I have for testing Windows versions I don't daily-drive. Been' using it for a while, with the usual tweaks, switching back seemed to be too much bother. I hide Windows versions from each other, just in case, the Flintstones way, manually changing partition type with Linux's fdisk. The few programs I use work as usual. Not being able to drop files on taskbar programs' buttons is annoying though.
  14. Asked around a little and got things cleared up regarding connections to the PCB. Those wires employed on the picture up there, they totally slipped by me, the method is described here. Another good solderless method would be press-fit headers. Just putting male headers in the hole wouldn't make a good contact. I didn't know we have a bunch of plain pin headers available at my workplace, the coworker from production said it was not a problem for him to solder them on my router, so I got that done in no time. Then I got a Raspberry Pi 5 and related accessories, set it up, got a look around the Raspberry Pi OS a bit, tried a bit of web browsing, put on Visual Studio Code, first time trying the latter and finally, I believe I have, at least in theory, a working version of tjtag-pi, my version is not published anywhere ATM, but generally it can access the router's CPU and flash memory over JTAG port, adapted to work on the new Pi, with the help of WiringPi library. I added one new function in the latter, which should flip the states of certain GPIO pins at once, or at least should happen a bit faster than the sequential way offered by the library, I basically just wrote a function that takes bit mask of pins to be set/clear, to closely emulate the GPIO pins maniupulation code of tjtag-pi. Whether this is necessary or not, I have no way of testing or otherwise knowing whether sequential flipping is really incorrect or just slightly less optimal, it's not a long intensive operation. But I've read about "bit banging", which is how communication is done through JTAG, that generally when it comes to bit banging, timings matter. Just in general, but in the case of these routers...the program has an option to wait between changes/reading of pin states, though judging by the comments, it was just a workaround for flimsy physical connection to JTAG port. As it turned out... ...I realized after trying another good working power supply, which compared to the other two, has a LED and it was blinking as well when powering the router while it should remain lit, that means only one thing, short circuit. So guess in best case scenario, only capacitors are faulty and in the worst case scenario, something else is fried. Ehhh... Oh well, I've got a working Raspberry Pi 5, so that's something.
  15. Look here to see what's available beyond the land of official vendor's offerings. Be sure to carefully study the installation procedure for whatever OS you'll pick and backup everything on the phone before you get to it as data wiping will be unavoidable.
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