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Hardware: OpenBSD on the Dell XPS 13 9380, Fedora GNU/Linux on Dell XPS 15 9570, Raspberry Pi Pico, and More

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 20, 2023

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OpenBSD on the Dell XPS 13 9380

↺ OpenBSD on the Dell XPS 13 9380

> As usual, Secure Boot must be disabled in order to boot OpenBSD.

Dell XPS 15 9570 is missing BIOS updates

↺ Dell XPS 15 9570 is missing BIOS updates

> My Dell XPS 15 9570 laptop is currently running the Fedora Linux distribution and receives firmware updates automatically from the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). So far so good, but I recently became aware that the same firmware version is not provided on Dell’s drivers and downloads page.

How to Overclock and Underclock a Raspberry Pi Pico

↺ How to Overclock and Underclock a Raspberry Pi Pico

> You might be thinking “Why overclock a Raspberry Pi Pico?” Using a low level language, such as C, the Pico is capable of being used to play games such as Doom (the full game) using an HDMI output board. It can emulate retro computers such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. With MicroPython, overclocking will give us a noticeable speed boost, and underclocking may provide us with longer battery life if we’re using it in a battery-powered project.

2023-03-17Super LoRaSerial

↺ 2023-03-17Super LoRaSerial

STM32U5 Discovery Kit features 2.47” TFT round LCD

↺ STM32U5 Discovery Kit features 2.47” TFT round LCD

> The STM32U5A9J-DK is a development platform featuring an low power Arm Cortex M33 with support for Arm TrustZone. This compact dev kit is equipped with 4GB of eMMC memory, MEMs sensors and on-board debugger/programmer.

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