Ich hatte letzte Woche das Glück, noch einen #Palm #Treo 650, zwar mit defektem #Motherboard, aber einem nahezu neuwertigen Gehäuse und einem noch sehr gut erhaltenen #Akku bei den Kleinanzeigen kaufen zu können.
Er ist zwar etwas neuer, immerhin kommt er schon aus dem Jahr 2006, aber so konnte ich meinen Palm wieder ein wenig upgraden.
Jetzt sieht er aus wie neu und hält wieder fast zwei Wochen durch 😀
(Bildbeschreibung: Mein Palm Treo 650 in der Ladeschale.)
If you've been following the latest advancements in computing for a while, you already know that there's a big problem with laptops: When they're no longer useful as a daily driver, it can be a struggle to find a good use for all its parts. Everything is proprietary, and serious amounts of reverse engineering are required if you decide to forge ahead. This is where Framework, a laptop company building modular laptops comes in. They've made it clear that when you upgrade your Framework laptop with a new mainboard they want you to be able to continue to use the old mainboard outside of the laptop.
When it's done powering your laptop, use it for a cyberdeck?
To that end, Framework have provided 2D mechanical drawings of their mainboard and 3D printable cases that can of course be modified as needed. "But what about peripherals?" you might ask. Framework has provided pinouts for all of the connectors on the board along with information on which connectors to use to interface with them. No reverse engineering needed!
While it's possible to buy a mainboard now and use it, their stated goal is to help people make use of used mainboards leftover from upgrades down the line. With just a stick of memory and a USB-C power adapter, the board will spring to life and even has i2c and USB immediately available.
What would you do with a powerful Intel i5-1135G7 mainboard? Framework wants to know, and to that end, they are actually giving away 100 mainboards to makers and developers. Mind you this is a program created and ran by Framework -- and is not associated in any way Hackaday or our overlords at Supplyframe.
If you've read this far and still don't know what the Framework laptop is, go check out this introduction by our own [Jenny List].
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The thing is, even the best hardware eventually becomes obsolete when it can no longer run modern software: with a 2.0 GHz Core Duo and 3 GB of RAM you can still browse the web and do word processing today, but you can forget about 4K video or a 64-bit OS. Luckily, there’s hope for those who are just not ready to part with their trusty Thinkpads. Xue Yao has designed a replacement motherboard that fits the T60/T61 range, bringing them firmly into the present day. The T700 motherboard is currently in its prototype phase, with series production expected to start in early 2022, funded through a crowdfunding campaign.
What is not clear, though, is whether it will actually be Windows 11 compatible.
See Replacement Motherboard Brings New Lease Of Life To Classic Thinkpads
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“They don’t make them like they used to.” It might be a cliché, it might not even be entirely true, but there’s something special about owning a piece of hardware that was b…
A group of scammers is reportedly abusing Instagram's protections against self-harm and impersonation and will target and ban nearly any Instagram account they want seemingly at will. Anyone can pay for the "ban-as-a-service," and it costs as little as $5.
In a report from Motherboard, it appears that the scammers not only run the ban service, they also are connected to at least one of the available services that restore accounts for users who believe they were unfairly banned by Instagram. This reverse service, however, can cost thousands of dollars.
The report cites an advertisement for the banning service on an underground forum called OG Users.
"Me (and my friend's) currently have the best ban service on-site/in the world. We have been professionally banning since 2020 and have top-tier experience. We may not have the cheapest prices, but trust me you are getting what you are paying for," the ad reportedly reads (this is a direct quote, and any grammar or punctuation errors were made on the part of the quoted party).
Motherboard was able to contact one of the anonymous banners, who told reporters that banning for them was "pretty much a full-time job" and claimed to have made over five figures from selling Instagram bans in under a month, at $60 per ban.
"I use an impersonation method where I get my verified IG accounts and change my profile to look exactly like the target's bio, name, profile photo etc. I report them for impersonation once and boom, they are gone," one scammer told Motherboard , clearly taking advantage of Instagram's automated policies.
Another insidious service offered to do it for as little as $5, but up to $35 depending on the account and number of followers. One listing for a banning service said it was able to get an account with as many as 99,000 followers banned.
Motherboard was able to confirm that many of the services that offer bans also offered services to help restore banned accounts, but this service could cost upwards of $3,500 to $4,000 -- far more than the cost to ban the account. Some users told Motherboard that they were offered help to bring their accounts back online almost immediately after their accounts were disabled.
Instagram told Motherboard that it was investigating the issue and that it will itself ban people who repeatedly break the platform's guidelines. The social media company also said that it encourages users to report people if they suspect them of this kind of activity and that they should reference its support page to restore accounts that have been wrongfully disabled.
Motherboard 's full story can, and should, be read here.
Image credits: Header photo licensed via Depositphotos.
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