> Layout convergence issues now result in detailed diagnostics that help pin down the cause

Yes!

They missed it badly. Mostly under Jassy’s reign.

Look at it like this. They had millions of voice interface devices already sitting in some large percentage of (at least US) households.

And they squandered it. Extremely late to the LLM game. Even today the Alexa interface is ridiculously bad.

Article fails to mention things like hardware time stamping, interleaved NTP, and PTP.

FW13 Pro is where it’s at.

RTO

what does that stand for?

Return To Office

Restarting The Oracle

Reading The Onion

Round Trip Orbit

Race The Otter

Radio Transmission Optimization

Really Tiny Ombudsman

Racing Towards Oblivion

Reach The Others

Reno To Oakland

Here is an alternative that I think has real potential:

https://m5stack.com/cardputerzero

Nice but zero blobs/everything open? As that's the main interesting part here; full, no binary blobs, open docs/code ...

The main interesting part for me is that the cardputer is real, but I do understand people getting excited by landing pages.

Arguably, we do - at least the 8k people being fired at Meta and the 7k being told to drop everything and work on AI likely did need one.

You might like a project I’ve been having on. I’m having fun with it. https://donglora.com/

DECT is definitely neat. But it’s significantly different than LoRa. At the lowest/slowest modulation you might get single digit kilometers out of it.

Doesn’t change my excitement about it a bit though. Eager to get this onto my workbench!

Let’s throw good money after bad!!!

Brilliant.