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That's a nice post, thanks for the link. Some may point to various coding apps available in walled gardens, but that means allowing 3rd parties to define what t
by alxmdev 9y ago
That's a nice post, thanks for the link. Some may point to various coding apps available in walled gardens, but that means allowing 3rd parties to define what the general-purpose computer is and set its limits. Who are they to say where curiosity begins and where it should end? I want the freedom to run native code on the CPU, and the freedom for others to easily run what I make without jumping through any hoops.
I'd like to hear your opinions about the Raspberry Pi and other cheap computer boards where you can load Linux and just plug in a keyboard and screen. I see a future iteration of that as my next PC in a few years. The Raspberry Pi 3 is good enough to run Ubuntu MATE (I was blown away), and if it had more than 1GB of RAM I would start using it full-time today and save myself some money on the power bill while I'm at it :-)
- chx 9y agoWant to hear the doom and gloom version? All it takes is one of these to be found in a terrorist backpack and they will be banned. Consider that 16 years ago one guy tried to smuggle a bomb in his shoe and to this day hundreds of millions of passengers take off their shoes in answer.