Starlink 的天線在五十度時會過熱停機

也是在 Hacker News 首頁上看到的資訊,Starlink 的天線在五十度時會停機:「Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit」。

這篇報導是出自 Reddit 上的消息,苦主住在亞利桑那州,美國的南部地區,以緯度來說的話大概跟大阪差不多:「This could be a problem. Only noon in AZ...」。

Reddit 的討論裡面有提到用撒水的方式降溫,但這樣對熱帶與亞熱帶地區好像不太友善啊,陽光大一點應該就會過熱?看起來是個得改善的點了...

Linux Kernel 5.7 釋出...

在「The New Features Of The Linux 5.7 Kernel: Tiger Lake Graphics Stable, New exFAT, Zstd F2FS, Performance」這邊有列出重點來。

其中把過熱保護機制也一起考慮進來,這樣可以避免過熱被強制降速而反而變非常慢:

Thermal pressure tracking for systems that are thermally overloaded for better task placement on CPU cores running hot.

另外一個是把 exFAT 驅動換成由 Samsung 維護的版本,照其他文章的說明,這個版本比較穩定...

The new exFAT file-system driver that replaces the exFAT driver in the staging area that had been around for a few releases. This new exFAT driver is in much better shape and actively maintained by Samsung.

主要還是過熱保護那段還蠻值得期待,不然就是要硬上水冷壓,避免遇到溫度牆...

透過手機螢幕上的餘熱猜測 PIN 碼

利用手機螢幕上的餘熱分析可能的 PIN 碼:「Heat traces left by fingers can reveal your smartphone PIN」,在輸入完 PIN 碼的 30 秒內的準確度都還是很高 (80%):

The report further revealed that if the thermal image is collected within 15 seconds of a PIN being entered, the technique is accurate almost 90% of the time. At 30 seconds, this accuracy decreased slightly to 80%. At 45 seconds or more, the accuracy dropped to 35% and below.