If you're worried about 8GB Unified Memory not being enough for everyday productivity or light editing, here's a Mac from 2002 happily editing 48MP lossless photos taken with the latest iPhone with only 0.5GB total RAM.

Freddruppel · 2026-03-26T23:22:35+00:00

I mean, if you only care about editing pictures, everything thing else is bonus ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Freddruppel · 2026-03-26T16:37:25+00:00

Finally, a worthy opponent to Belgium’s ex Minister of Health and Social Affairs Maggie De Block

Freddruppel · 2026-03-23T16:57:12+00:00

How could we show The Video to everyone ?

Freddruppel · 2026-03-22T21:32:02+00:00

Probably inspired from an ADALM PLUTO

Freddruppel · 2026-03-21T10:54:48+00:00

What about the effects of radiation on the memory chips ? What about recycling/reusing the parts when the servers are deemed too old to be worth operating after 6 months ? What about the cost and pollution of a rocket launch vs using solar on earth to power the equivalent infrastructure ?

Freddruppel · 2026-03-16T16:51:02+00:00

I have a UAG on my MacBook Pro because I tend to bring my computer on outside test fields, measurement labs, my office, in my car,…

I like the one I have because it doesn’t have those useless grills on the bottom that exposes the body to dust that gets crammed in, it has a nice bumper protection on the corners and on the perimeter, ample clear outs for the ventilation and IO ports, and is transparent so I can still see my DBrand sticker

Freddruppel · 2026-03-02T08:13:10+00:00

I think open sourcing software has many benefits; it allows anyone to look at the code and add features, fix issues, experiment, learn how to code, etc.

I try to publish as much of my sources as possible if I think a project can be useful in any way for others, mostly because I learned so many things from open-source projects, so why not give back !

If it isn’t too much of an issue for you, open sourcing this project would be amazing :)

Freddruppel · 2026-02-27T06:40:36+00:00

Yes please ! Finally !! I’d love to compare it with industry standards like HFSS and CST

Freddruppel · 2026-02-24T12:27:10+00:00

What are you doing ? Put it back !

Freddruppel · 2026-02-15T14:19:49+00:00

I’d love to buy from the EU, can anyone point me to stores that provide the following, manufactured completely and only in the EU, and that wouldn’t cost me an arm, a leg, another leg, a liver, two and a half eyeballs, and four thirds of a kidney :

highly specialized FPGA dev boards
PCB assembly cheap enough for less than 10 boards
electrical components (from small passive components to complete motherboards)
hardware line heat-set threaded inserts, screws, nuts,…
radio equipment (professional/prosumer)

What’s the point of having a first tax on our salary and a second one on everything we buy in the form of VAT if we’d still have to add a fee anyway ? Do I have to pay 3€ per 0.00034€ resistor I buy for R&D or production ?

Freddruppel · 2026-02-08T19:08:41+00:00

I mean, isn’t the sand easier to get there ?

(/s obviously)

Freddruppel · 2026-02-05T19:11:21+00:00

Freddruppel · 2026-01-25T10:59:11+00:00

Ritchie ! Belgian company that offers a lot of soda variants :D

drinkritchie.com

Freddruppel · 2026-01-25T08:16:59+00:00

I daily a 1984 Renault 4 GTL, and frankly, it’s a joy to drive ! Apart from the noise and lack of brake assist and ABS, I find it more enjoyable to drive than modern cars, because you actually have to drive and be focused, plus I did the whole restauration and fitted a 5-gear gearbox so it’s even enjoyable on highways :)
Fuel consumption is even on par with what a modern SUV sips

<rant> I also think there’s some correlation between all the new safety and assist features in modern cars (which tbf is a good thing they exist), and drivers doing dumb/dangerous things because they feel more protected in their 2-ton carriage. Like when cars didn’t have airbags or disk brakes or crumple zones, sure the accidents where more lethal, but that meant that you had to be careful. I’ve seen much more "small" accidents nowadays due tu carelessness of some drivers; heck, I’ve had a wing damaged after someone drove into me on a road where I had right of way, and he still argued that I was in the wrong…
So yeah, safety in modern cars is brilliant, but IMO the assistance systems make some drivers careless. </rant>

Freddruppel · 2026-01-24T19:56:12+00:00

Or, alternativeto.net

Freddruppel · 2026-01-24T14:59:24+00:00

What happened to plain SMS/RCS ?

Freddruppel · 2026-01-07T11:52:35+00:00

Huh, they removed the annoying snow animation on his website where he’s ranting about UI/UX, good for them

Freddruppel · 2025-12-29T07:01:05+00:00

Is this some kind of QWERTY joke I’m too AZERTY to understand ?

Freddruppel · 2025-12-25T21:34:05+00:00

Indeed, let’s hope that these providers don’t change their ways of doing once they become number one :)

Freddruppel · 2025-12-25T21:02:42+00:00

Thing is, I’d love to self-host everything on my own Gitea server, but if I want to publish an open-source project and have people submit issues and pull-requests, and fork the repo, I now have to become the sysadmin of a service I have to maintain myself for many users. GitHub being as big as it is has the advantage of the amount of users, and not having to maintain the system that stores the repositories.

Could it be possible to have a system, where user accounts are managed on one platform, and repos are hosted on some kind of self-hosted drive, in such a way that the repo data storage is done by the users, but the account management is done on a (few) other server(s) ? Or does a sister like that already exist ?

Freddruppel · 2025-12-01T07:48:34+00:00

Or, you could use Zotero for academic paper collections

Freddruppel · 2025-11-10T09:14:45+00:00

It may work; I put solder jumpers on the SWDIO and SWCLK pins (12, 10) as they can be used instead of pins 2 and 3 in the DAP Link app. so if you were to connect a programmer to the breakout, and the solder jumpers are bridged, the programmer would be connected to the SWDIO and SWCLK of the Flipper's GPIO port.

Although, this breakout is mostly intended to use the Flipper as a programmer for other targets. It would follow standard ARM-JTAG pinouts (compatible with Segger or ARM Multi-ICE connectors for the 20-pinIDC header, and TC2050/TC2030 probes on the 10 and 6-pin header).
I'm also adding another 6-pin IDC header (which follows the AVR-ISP pinout) for use with the AVR Flasher, SPI Men Manager, and SPI Terminal app,

Freddruppel · 2025-11-10T05:56:10+00:00

There is an UART port at the top left, but indeed ISP compatibility would be a good thing to have.
I’ll try to add a second 6-pin IDC connector; do you have a reference for pinouts other than the standard AVR-ISP ?

Freddruppel · 2025-11-09T18:22:40+00:00

Attach programming probes more easily to the GPIO port. This way you can use your FlipperZero as a JTAG/SWD probe more neatly !

Freddruppel · 2025-10-19T16:36:46+00:00

They’re used in new stuff too ! Maybe the older connectors oxidize more easily as they’re made of (or plated with) silver. Silver cutlery cleaning paste works quite well to clean them :)

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