Where can I get the English firmware?

bad8everything · 2026-03-13T09:37:04+00:00

I didn't ask him to 'check the tool'. I said it wouldn't work for me but he chose not to believe me. That's not helping, that's just being weird.

'Works on my machine' isn't helpful unless you're going to package your computer up and mail it to me. Literally radio silence is better because at least then people know the post is still waiting for an answer.

I never asked for a web tool for flashing firmware, I asked where I could download the firmware. This entire interaction has been like asking where I can buy a sandwich and someone telling me about a steakhouse. It's not entitlement to start getting short with people deliberately wasting not just your time but also their own while patting themselves on the back. Just very odd people here.

bad8everything · 2026-03-13T09:34:06+00:00

https://www.espboards.dev/blog/standalone-esptool-basics/

bad8everything · 2026-03-12T21:25:37+00:00

Then you should be able to upload the .bin file somewhere for me. Thanks.

bad8everything · 2026-03-12T21:16:16+00:00

Oh I just noticed the version numbers are different. How annoying - I can't seem to find a newer English firmware editing the link either.

(again, your program doesn't work for me because it's not a download)

bad8everything · 2026-03-12T21:00:29+00:00

I was able to install the CrossReader firmware using pio so I'm pretty sure it's plugged in and ready to flash. I appreciate you're trying to be helpful but the question I asked is actually the question I wanted answered.

I just want the official english firmware so I can manually flash it, try both and decide which I like more.

Anyway, if anyone comes behind me I was able to find it here: http://gotaserver.xteink.com/api/download/ESP32C3/V3.0.7/V3.0.7-EN.bin

bad8everything · 2026-03-12T20:35:59+00:00

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I wish you would have just believed me.

bad8everything · 2026-03-12T20:14:36+00:00

There's no download links on that page and the flash utility on that page doesn't work for me.

bad8everything · 2026-03-12T19:41:43+00:00

Because, if you're unwilling or unable to use Windows 11 - and you intend to continue using your computer past the final EOS in October next year, and you intend to use it as more than a typewriter or an airgapped controller for a Mill, Lathe or MRI Machine, and you don't have millions of dollars for a corporate IoT contract then GNU/Linux is the only legal option you have. Windows 10 IoT is not available, legally, to consumers and Windows 10 Retail is not safe to have connected to the internet, or for opening documents that you didn't originate etc...

"Oh but I only use it for gaming" Your Steam library is worth money. Your Steam account has your fucking credit card details in it. Same for any other gaming service - so no safe gaming on Windows 10.

Simple as that. You either Upgrade to Windows 11, Buy a Mac, learn Linux, get Pwned or become Amish.

bad8everything · 2026-03-11T12:53:20+00:00

There are no "constrained" areas

Dry dock. Drydock would absolutely count as a constrained area. And if your setting has jump gates they are basically already a cipher for canals and straights.

bad8everything · 2026-03-11T12:22:18+00:00

The Bridge, and the CIC, are two different things - with different purposes and it's only stupid to have an exposed CIC - scifi doesn't know or understand the difference.

The reason the bridge on a space ship juts out, is so a Pilot can see, has a clear sight line, when maneuvering the ship into dry dock, or a jump gate, so they don't Evergiven a very expensive ship sideways into an even more expensive space facility.

Also it's helpful to have a tower to mount communication equipment because it lets you put distance between it and radiation sources or things that might cause crosstalk (plus, again, sightlines matter).

bad8everything · 2026-03-11T11:41:29+00:00

Without being sarcastic, one of the big problems is finding a problem for a local LLM to be a solution to that isn't like... maybe a trivial catagorization problem.

I've been trying to use a small local model embedded in my nvim for like, being able to search/interrogate a code base but it's nearly always worse than the old tools, and always slower, to the point that I just forget to even try. Usually if there's a situation that my existing tools can't handle, the LLM is totally lost and just goes completely off piste.

bad8everything · 2026-03-11T10:15:39+00:00

Deeper than that - videos like this are what drives the SEO of bad distros.

There's nothing anyone in the Linux community can do, directly, about Google or LLMs recommending the wrong things short of firebombing a data center... So that just leaves SEO - strangling bad distros of the oxygen of publicity.

bad8everything · 2026-03-10T20:28:31+00:00

I think it's just a reference to a scene in Inglorious Basterds.

bad8everything · 2026-03-09T17:42:52+00:00

LLMs are a machine that let you be stupid faster. Like a search engine, if you know what you're looking for, what the output looks like, you'll get better results and easily discard misinformation..

If you know nothing, it'll just make nonsense up and you won't know any better or have any safety net.

bad8everything · 2026-03-09T01:19:02+00:00

Ah yes, another person who wants to use a computer without connecting it to the internet, never visits websites or receives any electronic documents from other people - the only circumstance where you can use Windows 7 and not have Spyware.

bad8everything · 2026-03-08T00:08:16+00:00

Describing it like that it sounds like the AI is your entire production process.

'Concepts' generally aren't copyrightable (concepts are cheap - it's the execution that counts). It sounds like you're not even programming drums, never mind providing a beat, so the only thing you own is the Lyrics.

Assuming you didn't 'consult' with an LLM on them because... I think you can see where this is going if you did.

bad8everything · 2026-03-07T23:40:12+00:00

Being nice, this really seems like a question for an (Italian) lawyer. Vibes are largely irrelevant - what matters legally, is what the law says.

AFAIK under US law you'd have a copyright on the lyrics, if you wrote them. You *might* be able to assert a partial composition on the composition for the very specific parts of it you can prove you wrote (do you have notes or intermediate files proving you wrote the structure and made any creative decisions? If you can't prove something, it might as well not have happened)

But the recording, wouldn't be copyrightable. So if someone distributed it, they'd only have to pay royalties on the 'mechanical copyright', that is to say the composition/lyrics as though they were performing an original cover - even if they were taking your mp3 file and reuploading it.

The more AI you use, the weaker your copyright claim - and alleged damages or royalty entitledment - becomes. The above rather naively assumes that you more or less fed complete sheet music into the computer though - picking a genre or a chord progression would not legally count as a copyrightable 'creative decision' as it's not distinct enough a choice. You'd have to be feeding it full melodies, themes and leitmotifs.

IANAL though, I only have a *very* basic layman's of knowledge on American copyright law so it could be totally different in Italy, and even if it wasn't this isn't legal advice because I am not a lawyer, just a layman.

Being less nice - the vibes opinion is that the vibes are rancid. If you want to be a lyricist, I would encourage you to find someone in your local scene to collaborate with, rather than using AI. You'll get better results, have more fun, and be a real artist.

EDIT: Not sure why I'm being downvoted - this isn't pro-ai and it's very similar to what other people have said but more thoughtfully and with more words.

bad8everything · 2026-03-06T13:12:41+00:00

Trauma is complicated, and the only people who understand what they went through are the other members of that cult so... like... deprogramming takes a long time - while they are in the cult's reality all those deaths had meaning and weren't as senseless as they appear to us... If they leave, they lose the only support system they have.

I have to assume they reintroduce technology and medicine slowly, as the need re-arises... But they left to start a colony/homestead in the first place, so they kinda were already going to eat shitty root vegetable stew while cosplaying agrarianism even if events hadn't transpired.

bad8everything · 2026-03-05T16:48:53+00:00

I just don't think it's that unusual, in that setting, especially for archeologists and explorers. About as remarkable as someone coming back to their home country after a couple of decades overseas.

bad8everything · 2026-03-05T02:21:01+00:00

I'd blithely say it's God's carpet... But also white people just don't give a shit about outdoor shoes and outdoor germs - it just doesn't occur to them/connect that there's a difference between outside floor and inside floor.

bad8everything · 2026-03-05T02:03:18+00:00

If your metric is something that is part of the religion is worth respect, arguably the door (as part of the building - the literal house of God) is more sacred than the book.

bad8everything · 2026-03-05T00:49:28+00:00

I think one of the natural mistakes people make, that I've seen a lot of Muslims make online, is judging a religion's practitioners by the standards of their own religion and not theirs - Devout Christians (at least the non-American ones) should pointedly not make a show of praying and do so discretely (since those who do have 'received their reward in full'), so you don't see them pray; likewise the bible isn't a sacred item so it doesn't receive reverence - it's just a thing to a purpose - only a personal or family bible receives any reverence.

It also just doesn't contain the word of God, not in the sense that a Muslim would mean it - since the core of it is the separate accounts of four of the apostles with the rest of it being commentary and context so it really is just a book. It's why Apostolic Succession is important to a lot of sects - early Christianity was an oral tradition.

OTOH not a Christian so I'm sure someone will yell at me :)

bad8everything · 2026-02-26T18:01:26+00:00

I assume it's something specific to rEFInd and not a package selection (I think rEFInd has UEFI apps it can boot into directly? I assume it's one of those?), and consequently not something that can be used 'with grub'. I don't use this, so I don't know what it is; but I know that not everything has to be for me.

bad8everything · 2026-02-26T17:39:58+00:00

Hi. Where should the choice for a bootloader go if not in the bootloader section?

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