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Cake day: February 10th, 2024

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  • How would this control people selling their used hardware? I don’t see anything about Sony trying to disable resold consoles.

    you’ll get “a product that works like new with genuine PlayStation replacement parts (as needed) that has been thoroughly cleaned, inspected and tested”. You will receive all the cables and paperwork you need for a PS5, and it comes with a 12-month manufacturer’s warranty

    That’s worth a premium to some people.







  • I don’t know the whole story behind Cybenetics, but I think it started just a few years ago as one guy who was active in the hardware enthusiast community and dissatisfied with the info generally available about power supplies. He has been doing outstanding work, not only in measuring performance and efficiency in multiple dimensions, but also in measuring the noise produced by these things at various workloads, and publishing the results for free. The reports were instrumental in my last hardware purchase, and I’m very happy with the model I chose.

    It’s great to see his work recognized by a big vendor, and to see a big vendor moving to a superior certification system. Thanks for posting this.















  • Their download page doesn’t make this clear: Molly is not on F-Droid.

    Instead, the Molly project hosts an F-Droid-compatible repository, which you can configure your F-Droid client to use in addition to / instead of the F-Droid repository. If you do this, the downloaded software will come directly from the Molly developers, not from F-Droid.

    Some people avoid this because it loses a layer of oversight. Others prefer it because it avoids a potential attack vector. You’ll have to decide for yourself whether it’s something you want to do.