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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 11h

Not in the way Legacy was, but there were a few parts that were carried by the music, like the light sail sequence and the bit with CLU (pun intended)

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 18h

I'm not deep into NIN, just remember a few of their older albums. It felt like a good backing, but definitely wasn't the same level as Daft Punk's attempt.

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 18h

Ouch, I can imagine the eardrums needing a break, yeah

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 18h

To be fair, each Tron is like a 2 hour visual feast / music video and the soundtrack is the main draw

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 19h

Not yet :( only saw one demo of older GPU working so far but haven't replicated.

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 19h

Tron: Ares soundtrack is nice. I don't like it as much as OG or Legacy, though I haven't watched the movie (2 hr music video) yet. So can't say for sure how it'll hit with the visuals.

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

So far haven't seen too many outside a few one-off projects people made. Would love to see someone work on a way to make sales sustainable. Would love 2.5, 5, and even with RTL chip 10Gbps Ethernet modules, more GPIO stuff, LED display modules, etc.

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

The first 'cheap' LG 4K display, forget what it was, but bought it 9 years ago for $499! Most I'd ever spent on a monitor.

Now I have this Dell with better specs for $244. If this keeps up I'll get a 12k display in 10 years for $120 :D

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 1d

Guess what I have on my desk to test next week...?

Two more RISC-V cores to add on to the 8 inside this laptop!

This is a neat little RP2350 GPIO expansion card for Framework devices, which is plugged into the DC ROMA Mainboard II, with an 8-core P550 onboard :)

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 2d

When the monitor costs more than the computer!

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 2d

This is on a Mac though. All OSes handle HDR settings funky, it seems.

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 2d

Dell S2725QS

Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 2d

Just bought a new monitor for the studio (4K Dell display, it was on sale), and WOW, so this is what it's like to not have ghosting from a 9-year-old monitor?

It has HDR too, but that makes things look weird if they're not-HDR.

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

And no, I was not paid to say any of this—but yes, a couple years ago I took home a very early version of the Ubo Pod for testing! It's not simple/refined like an Echo or HomePod but that's part of its charm :D

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

It's kickstarter, so of course YMMV, but if it ships, it's a great deal on a little Pi box you could build on top of, along with some useful built-in sensors and software... all open source (hardware and software), of course!

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

At Open Sauce 2024, I met Ubo Pod's creator and had good conversations about the little 'home Pi smarthome box'. He refined it and upgraded to a Pi 5 so it can do small local LLMs for voice stuff - and he's just launching a Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ubo...

Ubo Pod: Your personal <\ai> dev kit

www.kickstarter.com

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

For that you'd want to read through the NASA LEO document I linked in the blog post: ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation... the short answer is "it depends" :D

ntrs.nasa.gov

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 4d

How much radiation can a Raspberry Pi handle in space? I asked Ian Charnas, the chief engineer for Mark Rober's Crunchlabs, and he shared a ton of great data on testing the CM4 while prepping for their SatGus cubesat launch!

Read more: www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ho...