I paid 20 euros for the Dell, have a toolhead motherboard (EBB36) and the printer motherboard has I2C, SPI and CAN, so that is also covered. All of this together cost me 50 euros or so.

"And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it riding the gravy train."

I use an old Dell Wyse 3040 thin client for that - cheaper than a pi and higher performance too.

I haven't expected to read all of this in 2026. 20 years ago maybe, but not now. Are you a time traveller?

I don't know even though i have driven stick shift for years. Fortunately I don't have to do that anymore, since manual transmission has become uncommon.

Again, he already stoppdd Iran from ever having nukes last year. Or are you implying that he was lying?

Liar. He already stopped Iran from getting nukes last year. How you even dare to doubt the words of his orange highness?

P2P results in more traffic, not less. The traffic is merely offloaded from google's server.

Thiel is, like Musk, someone who wants to change the world for the worse because he thinks he knows better. Altman simply wants wealth.

I personally think that Musk is worse. Altman is a pretty much run-off-the-mill CEO, no different from thousands of others. Musk, however, has delusions of grandeur, an urge to change the world, and a worldview that is severely skewed due to slippage of sanity. The worst kind of nutcases are those who think that it is the world that is crazy and needs fixing, not them, and actually have the means to follow up on it.

Right back at you. They were only extremely wealthy in comparison to the piss poor normal people. But living as kings - nope. Seriously, take a look at the photos of their homes and dachas. Take a look at the photos of their parties. Middle management, doctors and top engineers in the west used to live better back then and even more so nowadays. This is nothing like the excesses of russian oligarchs.

The soviet and GDR ultra rich would have been called upper middle class in the west.

It is the other way round. The whole base load concept only exists because coal and nuclear suck at load following. If all power generation is capable of load following, base load is moot.

The treaties between Switzerland and the EU are all interlinked, so if Switzerland decides to exit one treaty, this will make all the other ones void as well. But I think this is exactly what SVP wants - they wish Switzerland was an island far away from any other coast.

"United breaks guitars"