Summary of the week of September 28, 2020

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This week, Yorus has launched his new blog Pixel Road in which he has already published new material. Apart from that, this is the summary of the week:

Apple releases Swift

The iPhone manufacturer has published the code of its programming language intended for the development of apps for the smartphone. From now on, it will also have support for Linux.

Pixel Road gets rolling

Yorus's new blog has started today. With a retro theme, and quoting the author, "The objective of this new stage is to give free rein to my concerns in this outdated world of retrocomputing, publishing my small projects and sharing material that I have been collecting over time."

Stability issues of the RTX 3080

It has been speculated whether the problems of the new graphics cards with Nvidia's GPU could be due to the poor design of certain PCBs and the arrangement of the capacitors. Finally and without giving many details, the developer has released a new driver that seems to solve these problems

Using Raspberry Pi for industrial applications

Raspberry Pi is always seen as a board to make home projects of greater or lesser scope in an economic way and without reliability being a determining factor. In this oyster cultivation, they have decided to use the board for data collection and plant control.

Lenovo sells PCs with Linux

The manufacturer has released a range of laptops and desktops with Ubuntu preinstalled.

Microsoft will support x86 for Windows for ARM

At the end of the year, Windows compiled for ARM will be able to run programs for 64-bit x86 processors through emulation.

How to activate VA-API in Firefox 81 on Fedora

In this entry they explain how to activate hardware video decoding in the latest version of Mozilla's browser.

Windows will warn of SSD failures

A new feature of Windows 10 is being tested that will make the system warn the user when the failure of an SSD is imminent.

How TLC SSD memories work

Triple-level flash memories allow storing 8 states per cell, which triples the density of information. In this video, they explain how it works.

Project K6-2

"About 4 years ago I decided to build a retro PC capable of running both MS-DOS and Windows 98SE. Here I will make a summary of what I did."