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Comment Re: Thank AI (Score 1) 45

I still don't understand why any SBC application that is not emulating classic videogames needs more than 4 GB, let alone 8 GB.

A lot of people are using raspis as workstations, with any heavy lifting being done elsewhere. They are perfectly adequate for most normal daily tasks, silent, and use very little power. There's a lot to like about them, they're just overpriced for what little you're getting. If you didn't have to pay extra for basic features like an M.2 slot maybe they would be worth it. After you pay for a case, power supply (and they are picky as fuck about that) and so on, you're not saving any money compared to buying a MiniPC with better support and a richer set of available software. Raspi only has good vendor support compared to other poorly supported SBCs, all the heavy lifting is done by the community which often has to work around the pi foundation's failures.

Comment Laws are weird (Score 0) 164

In California, it's illegal to do this. We call it a speed trap, even though that already means something — cop hiding in some shitty spot where the speed limit suddenly and unexpectedly drops or whatever. I got busted with one of these in Jackson City, TX, a trivial little carbuncle on the asshole of a slightly shortcut route to Austin if you're heading East on the I-10, with a stop sign completely enveloped in a fucking tree that probably produces 50% of that shithole's revenue.

*ahem*

Anyhoo this CO scheme wouldn't be legal here in CA. And we'd also make a city cut a tree back if they wanted to keep writing speeding tickets based on a sign inside of the fucker.

Comment Re:Please sir (Score 0) 172

Either you lose $200 billion now, or you lose your lives in a few years.
The IR has been actively building missiles, developing better ones and funding various terrorist groups around the world while making money selling oil.
They are stronger now than they were 20 years ago. They openly call for the complete destruction of Israel, and they call the US "The great satan". If they had the capability to destroy Israel and the US right now then they absolutely would, if they ever got that capability in the future they wouldn't hesitate to use it.

The majority of the Iranian population HATE this regime. They also know that this regime is ruthless and will not hesitate to kill, and yet thousands of them stood up against it in january and lost their lives.

The sooner the IR is taken out the better for everyone, $200 billion this year, $400 billion next year, $1 trillion in 2 years time, or in 3 years it's too late and they take you out instead. And unlike western governments, the IR will not hesitate if they have the capability.

Comment You have no IP address. Your neighborhood does. (Score 0) 29

How are you going to host a game server on a home computer if you share your IPv4 address with other subscribers to the same ISP in the same neighborhood,[1] and the combined modem and router that your home ISP requires all subscribers to use lacks an option for port forwarding? Both of these are true, for example, of T-Mobile US Home Internet.

[1] Many home ISPs apply carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT) to conserve IPv4 addresses since the worldwide exhaustion.

Comment Re:Stolen is one thing (Score 1) 69

The legal problems you're talking about are about training, not about the output. You need fair use to train your LLM with unlicensed text, but you don't need fair use laws to use the outputs.

That is a question which fundamentally has not been answered yet. The legislators and courts will collectively have the final say.

Comment Re: Thank AI (Score 1) 45

Er, I didn't write that right. Edit fail. This part:

Too much work. The point is that the devices are very expensive compared to much simpler devices.

The point is that the devices are very expensive compared to more complex devices. A phone has a LOT more hardware. It comes with a LOT more support. It comes with a LOT more software. It's shipped in a nice box with accessories, at least a sim tool if it's got a slot. Raspi has none of that. It's made with excess SoCs, whatever they can get cheap. Every single part of it is cheapass. And you can get a phone with as much RAM, much more CPU, and both cellular and wifi for around twice as much as the top end Pi. It's got a screen, it's got a bunch of storage, it's got a battery, and lots of such phones are not sold in huge volumes. So why is this grossly simpler device so expensive? Answer, people will pay for it.

The cost of development of a raspi is not much different from say an Arduino Mega. It's got a more expensive SoC which does a lot more, but that's still not a very expensive part. It makes the PCB more expensive, but not dramatically so. The community does most of the hard work of supporting it.

Comment Re: Thank AI (Score 1) 45

Define "overpriced". What's the BOM. What's the cost of assembly and production? What's the cost of running the business, including engineer?

BOM: way less parts than a cellphone. Cost of assembly and production: way less than a cellphone. Cost of running the business, including engineers: Way less than a cellphone. What am I comparing? A much much much simpler and cheaper device to engineer and build since it's just a bare board with some cheap parts including some SoCs that BCM had too many of lying around, which is how they pick 'em.

Here's a challenge: Find a product that is feature and performance comparable at a lower cost across the range.

Too much work. The point is that the devices are very expensive compared to much simpler devices.

A side point is that they also often suck. They keep making dumb errors in power supply or USB which compromise devices. Then they just publish errata and tell you how to work around their fuckups. How about doing some testing before shipping?

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