<p>okay i think i know why it was unstable</p><p>remember that broken down capacitor that i removed? it was on the VIN pin of a TPS5430 buck converter. and TPS5430 really, _really_ wanted its VIN pin to be bypassed</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> as opposed to?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@film_girl" class="u-url mention">@<span>film_girl</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://eworld.social/@ismh86" class="u-url mention">@<span>ismh86</span></a></span> Even without judging which looks better, I always have the big question, like a child: W H Y ?</p><p>Changing the icon costs real money.</p><p>Is it that we are at the end of innovation and to get at least some online coverage, they mess with the look of it a bit? Bikeshedding?</p><p> W H Y ?🤦‍♀️</p>

<p>besides one or two functions in the bootloader, there are no strings in the firmware</p><p>the application section is a 128K blob full of vector floating point instructions. this is going to be extremely challenging to reverse engineer</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> and if you find the string &quot;Gonna Jump to Application&quot;, you&#39;ll quite likely find the application binary&#39;s location / &quot;app_reset_handler&quot;.</p>

<p>Saw this on another site. This is why all new accounts for commenting on GamingOnLinux go through new post and edit post approvals, to stop crap like this going into public.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@maehw" class="u-url mention">@<span>maehw</span></a></span> yeah it&#39;s using TX1/RX1 and TX6/RX6 based on PCB markings</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> the right to bear ARMs processors</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@zabrinaz" class="u-url mention">@<span>zabrinaz</span></a></span> what is the error message?</p>