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DingDian S3 is a pocket-sized PC with Pentium N6000 and 16GB RAM (crowdfunding)

The DingDian S3 is a desktop computer that about the size of a thick smartphone, but under the hood likes the beating heart of a full-fledged PC including an Intel Jasper Lake processor, 16GB of RAM and support for up to two SSDs. If the pocket-sized computer looks familiar, that’s because the chassis is virtually […]

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The DingDian S3 is a desktop computer that about the size of a thick smartphone, but under the hood likes the beating heart of a full-fledged PC including an Intel Jasper Lake processor, 16GB of RAM and support for up to two SSDs.

If the pocket-sized computer looks familiar, that’s because the chassis is virtually identical to the Morefine M6 and Topton M6. But those models are powered by an Intel Celeron N5105 chips while the DingDian S3 has a Pentium Silver N6000 processor instead. The S3 is expected to sell for $369 and up at retail, but DingDian is running a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that lets you reserve one for as little as $249.

While you’d normally expect higher performance from a Pentium chip than a Celeron, that’s not actually the case here. Both the Celeron N5105 and Pentium Silver N6000 are 4-core, 4-thread processors based on Intel Jasper Lake architecture. But the former is a 10-watt chip with 2 GHz base and 2.9 GHz burst speeds, while the latter is a 6-watt chip with 1.1 GHz base and 3.3 GHz burst speeds.

The result is that you’ll probably get better single-core and multi-core performance from the Celeron N5105, but slightly better energy efficiency from the Pentium Silver N6000.

That said, the $249 starting price could make the DingDian S3 an attractive alternative for folks willing to risk the uncertainty of a crowdfunding campaign… and willing to wait a few months for delivery. The crowdfunding campaign ends April 10, 2022 and DingDian expects to begin shipping the S3 to backers in June.

For $249 you can reserve a model with 128GB of storage, but you can also pay extra for 512GB or 1TB versions. All versions have 16GB of DDR4 2933 MHz memory, which is soldered to the mainboard and not user replaceable. But the little computer does have upgradeable storage: there’s an M.2 2280 slot for PCIe NVMe SSDs and an M.2 2242 slot for SATA storage.

The S3 measures 150 x 80 x 19mm ( 6.1″ x 3.1″ x 0.75″) and weighs 195 grams (about 6.9 ounces) and has a selection of ports that includes:

1 x HDMI 2.0
1 x USB Type-C (full function)
1 x USB Type-C (power input)
3 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A
1 x 3.5mm audio
1 x 2.5 Gbps Ethernet

DingDian notes that while the computer is designed for desktop rather than mobile use, it can be powered from any portable power bank that supports 12V/2A output over USB Type-C.

There’s also an Intel AX201 wireless card with support for WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2.

via /r/MiniPCs

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Interview: Will Putin noch den "Regime Change"?

Auch der führende russische Militärexperte Wassili Kaschin war schockiert über die Invasion in der Ukraine. Im Gespräch mit Telepolis analysiert er strategisch die aktuelle Situation

Ukrainekrieg: Unerhörte Stimmen aus der Bundeswehr

Warum hört niemand auf jene mahnenden Stimmen auch aus unseren Streitkräften, die den Krieg kommen sahen und jahrelang friedliche Lösungen vorschlugen?

Learning physiology by looking at the poisons that shut it down

A cute book, but not nearly as good as Deborah Blum’s The Poisoner’s Handbook.

Neil Bradbury is a physiology professor whose first book, A Taste for Poison, uses tales of poisons and poisoners as a means to explain physiological processes by describing how each poison disrupts them. The grisly episodes are like the proverbial spoonful of sugar that makes the medicine go down; Bradbury seems to think that people will only read about human physiology if they are first treated to stories demonstrating that science isn’t boring, that it can actually be dangerous and racy. He might be right.

Each chapter focuses on one fatal molecule and the murderers who used it and then goes on to explain how it kills. So we learn about how electrical signals are propagated down the length of nerve cells and then transmitted across synapses by neurotransmitters. That shows up in the chapter on atropine, the toxin in deadly nightshade that blocks the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and again in the chapter on strychnine, a popular rat killer that blocks the neurotransmitter glycine. We learn about aerobic respiration in the chapter on cyanide, which prevents the mitochondria in our cells from using oxygen to generate energy. And we read about protein synthesis in the chapter about ricin, which destroys ribosomes, the complexes responsible for protein assembly in every cell.

A better alternative?

As a pedagogical tool to teach physiology, the book is cute, but that’s about all it is. Deborah Blum’s The Poisoner’s Handbook is about the birth of toxicology and forensic medicine; it covers similar ground, but it's much more engaging.

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Kampf gegen Pandemie: Regierung will Corona-Maßnahmen in Betrieben lockern

Mediziner warnen vor der geplanten Streichung der Maskenpflicht in den meisten Innenräumen. Das könnte die Corona-Pandemie vorantreiben. (Coronavirus, Wirtschaft)

Die Energiewende muss dezentral werden

Die Zeit der zentralen thermischen Großkraftwerke geht unaufhaltsam ihrem Ende entgegen. Die Zukunft liegt woanders – ohne übergreifendes Blackout-Risiko

Die Zeit der zentralen thermischen Großkraftwerke geht unaufhaltsam ihrem Ende entgegen. Die Zukunft liegt woanders - ohne übergreifendes Blackout-Risiko

Activists are reaching Russians behind Putin’s propaganda wall

Tinder, other apps give activists a way to share what’s really happening in Ukraine.

René has nothing to do with the invasion of Ukraine. The 34-year-old lives more than 1,000 km away in Nuremberg, Germany. He has no family there, and he’s never been to the country. But when Russia invaded, he wanted to help. So on the dating app Tinder, he changed his location to Moscow and started talking to women there about the war.

“I had a conversation with a girl who said [the invasion] is only a military operation and the Ukrainians are killing their own people and stuff like that, so I got into an argument with her,” says René, who asks not to share his surname because he doesn’t want his clients to know about his activism. “I also had some reactions like, ‘Thank you for telling us.’”

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