Hopefully without the politics…

In Soviet Russia, politics find you.

Can any x86 based system actually comes with that much unified memory?

Not an Apple fanboy, but I was under the impression that having access to up to 512GB usable GPU memory was the main feature in favour of the mac.

And now with Exo, you can even break the 512GB barrier.

And their mistake lies in believing that populist rhetoric is going to make their lives better…

Is it though? EasyEDA is more than sufficient for most uses that don’t require large amounts of layers or components. It’s easy to pickup by a novice, has basic ERC, well integrated into LCSC ecosystem.

It doesn’t have the versatility of KiCAD but is lighter and easier for light use or occasional design of moderate complexity.

Shame you threw it away. It would have been useful to collect the traffic with Wireshark and share that with info about the device in a post or a blog for others to investigate and be warned about that brand and model.

ZorinOS keeps it easy and consistent if you are familiar with windows.

I think it’s pretty good for non dev users. The distro doesn’t provide any earth shattering new innovations but they spend efforts to polish the interface and make it easy to use.

Its pretty good for people who just want a working system and don’t care about whether it’s linux or something else.

The types and degrees of customization they do to their poor Ubuntu base gives me the willies. I can hear it pleading "kill me" from all the way over here...

Chromium is highly dependent on Google’s interests. We see how they chose to implement Manifest V3 in a way that, through a strange coincidence(/s), neuters the capabilities of Ad Blocking extensions.

All downstream browsers are affected by Google’s bottom line. Putting lipstick and a few nice features on top of an engine that you don’t control doesn’t make your browser a true alternative from Google’s.

It seems Circuit Hub is an alternative. Still more expensive than JLC, but not as high as other US alternatives.

https://www.circuithub.com/

Their CEO Andrew Seddon was recently on the AmpHour podcast:

https://theamphour.com/699-circuithub-12-years-later-with-an...

Thank you for the tip!

My project uses gerbers and they do not accept them. Will see what I can do

I would be surprised if they didn't manually accept them, but it is a bit strange they don't mention it on their website.

I'd be very surprised if any of these companies they list are willing to give project files for manufacture. I assume they do this because smaller companies and hobbyist see it as more convienient, and to CircuitHub it means less mistakes / time dealing with the customer when they generate their own outputs.

It is on their website that gerbers are not accepted. It’s their policy unfortunately

I didn’t design the PCB so all I have are gerbers and BOMs (as CSV)

> Plus GDPR has created more value for lawyers and consultants than it has for EU citizens.

Monetary value, certainly, but that’s considering money as the only desirable value to measure against.

Who said money. Time and human effort are the most valuable commodities.

That time and effort wasted on consultants and lawyers could have been spent on more important problems or used to more efficiently solve the current one.

The white food stuff is referred by another commenter, but it was purely parodic.