As if 99% of the sites you're visiting aren't 'spying' on you also.

Including *this* one*.

* - /. has some features that suffer when a decent ad blocker is active in your browser. So, if I want to expand comments, I have to disable my preferred ad blocker. Kudos, &%%holes.

The 16GB version has that printed on the board. You can't count on the jumper resistor to tell you, for obvious reasons.

This could be help if they did print RAM capacity on every board... But then they would not be able to take raw boards, solder on RAM, set the jumper, and poof, board for sale. This way, they manufacture bare boards in quantity, and the 16GB is a different board, IIRC, 5 jumper positions unlabeled, where the 1,2,4,8 boards have 4 jumper positions and are usually labeled. Fewer SKUs.

The FSF wants everything to be free. Well, actually,. not everything. They happily accept your donations, so perhaps 'voluntary' pricing they can support.

But voluntary pricing seems, inevitably, to become zero.

I agree, dfghjk, Stallman is a soft sociopath.

"Yes, SELL, not RENT. That means the purchaser OWNS the result. And should be able to do whatever the &*_@ they want with it."

And the argument for Metrovision bypasses comes back to life. No, Raspberry PI owners generally do not expect to defeat the legal licensing of content to avoid the cost of purchasing, but, but. I suspect at the root of this is the RPi Foundation might just be upset that there are boards out there being sold, with mor RTAM than manufactured with, for more money. Money that the RPiF did not get. I've got a collection of Raspberry Pi 5s, 8 and 16GB versions. I bought the 16GB at MicroCenter during their Phoenix opening, sheer luck as it was the last of the last shipment before retail pricing kicked in, and for $99. Today retail is $305. I ought to scalp it and buy some hats, but if I had a 4GB board, imagine soldering in 16GB and reselling it for $200 more...

I get it. And I'm not as whiny as the FSF, mostly because they are to vigilante for me. It's money. That's all.

Actually, I suspect this is part of the continuing effort to drive individuals to use hosting services, offloading the management to a vendor, no matter how cheap. Us hobbyists are a thorn in the side of Internet security, where making a small, seemingly insignificant mistake, leads to your host being a trampoline sending nasty security threats all over the world.

The Internet is still at risk of becoming the even-more-exclusive domain of the corporations. While I worry that RS is a bit too vigilante, truth is we need to defend access for those who just want to do it their way. Responsibly? The biggest of the big boyz screw it up often enough, thank you, we are not the worst problem you have.

Reddit is pus. Has been for a long time. The 10% that isn't vulgar, cruel, abusive, or outright fabricated isn't valuable enough for me to see except accidentally. My search engine still often leads results with pages of Redditt posts.

Hard to believe something worse than Usenet came to be, but there it is...

Remember when Microsoft wrote a storage driver for MS SQL Server? And how it interacted with the 'native' MS Server driver?

I'm reminded of the arguments had over SCSI RAID controllers, and turning off read-after-write-verify... Since, at the time, SCSI drives did RAWV in hardware, that was redundant on the controller. And in software.

This came to a head, for me, when I queried a Novell Labs fellow about the 'non-media defects' I saw deactivating SCSI drives on servers. They finally gave in and explained, it was a controller defect. Which I challenged. And they finally stated that a drive hardware write error (RAWV fail) would report as 'non-media' because the intervening RAID controller gave it back as a controller error, which was usually wrong, but that was the way it worked. And since SMART didn't exactly work on SCIS, and log sense was not implemented in most RAID controllers, we had minimally useful diagnostics. So I would keep track of the drives that elicited 'non-media defect' messages, and schedule them for replacement.

It's almost a pleasure to read discussions about RAM doublers, etc., and no one remembers when these were bits of software that actually did not do anything useful at all. Ah, the 80s.

If Miranda rights were written a little like the Second Amendment, police would indeed have a PD in house for this. But even the 2nd Amendment, despite 'shall not...', is regularly sidestepped. Bear in mind, though, that in many big cities the schools are teaching that police are the enemy. They fail, however, to follow that up with 0) know your rights, and 1) STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. But to make big city school systems are cheating students out of a future. It's criminal.

" All cell phones by law have a AM/FM capabilty"

Untrue. False. Made up.

" into the AM broadcast band, which is about 50 times lower in frequency than AM broadcast"

Huh? Maybe you meant 'about 50 times lower in frequency than FM broadcast'. If only FM had better range, but nope.

Bear in mind that the 'emergency' where your car radio could be most useful might, no probably, will also have a power outage in there somewhere. Cell service will not last too long when the batteries die, and the generators don't work, or weren't there at all...

"Who the hell cares if I can get a radio station from thousands of miles away "

Most AM radio listening is to local stations. MW propagation can range a few thousand miles, but it's somewhat unusual.

And not the point of the defense of AM radio in automobiles. Timely information, emergency information, AM is still a popular option, and listenership is not decreasing.

"just buy a radio'. Huh, so that handheld radio would not suffer from interference (Hams call it WRM, but it is really RFI) just like the build in unit? The real problem here is that automobile manufacturers do not want to solve the RFI issues. It is expensive. And complex. And not unreasonable. The AM radio in my Prius does not suffer form RFI, and there is an inverter and HV drive system in there. Tesla etc. will have to employ serious engineers to show then where they went wrong. A Herculean effort? I bet not.

ps - Duke sucks.

I dunno where you live, but police around where I live (and for at least a 100 mile radius) do not think their jobs are boring, unless you think the risk of a bullet boring a hole in your body is 'boring'.

Repetitive? Yeah, domestic violence, homeless overdoses, e-moto kid stupidity, and random-ish shootings, rinse and repeat.

True. Eyewitness reports, a BOLO for 'Durango' out over the radio or network, and Liz gets this treatment anyways.