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by esskay 2y ago
I am the person you replied to. And I have personally bought brand new Lenovo and Dell mini pc's on ebay in that price range. I only didn't mention them in the follow up comment as they are admittedly snapped up very quickly so yo
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by esskay 2y ago
Not sure why you think I'm talking for everyone. This is a forum for discussion, where people share their views and opinions, mine was that it's mediocre, yours was that it's amazing. That's the great thing about opinion
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by esskay 2y ago
Great. More tools to continue the enshitification of everything on the web.
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by esskay 2y ago
Even excusing used hardware you can litterally buy brand new ready to go windows based pc's in that price bracket. Prices from Pimoroni. The price of a Pi 500 is £84.60 for the unit + £11.40 for the PSU + £3.90 for a micro hdmi adaptor
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by esskay 2y ago
I'm not really referring to broken / questionable hardware here. I'm talking about ex office stock thats been flashed with a fresh copy of Windows and is ready to go out of the box, the same way any new PC would. That's
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by esskay 2y ago
I think if its a one off purchase for use as a general pc or learning tool that doesn't require GPIO something like a second hand thinkcentre or optiplex is probably the best option. They'll be cheaper than a Pi 5 or Pi 500, plus
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by esskay 2y ago
As others pointed out, yes you can. But you can get even better specs and at a lower price on eBay. Any of the Lenovo or Dell mini pc's are cheaper (around £50-£70 depending on the model) on eBay and SIGNIFICANTLY more useful. For peop
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by esskay 2y ago
You can sometimes even get new ones. I picked up 5 Dell Optiplex 3050's brand new in box on ebay last year for £58 (~$75 USD) a pop. Even came with a keyboard and mouse. You get a lot of office clearances on there where its places that
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by esskay 2y ago
Another vote for porkbun here. By far one of the best registrars out there right now.
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Yeah that part makes it even more odd as instead of one new mold they now need 2 if/when they do add the nvme support.
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by esskay 2y ago
The word "Mediocre" comes to mind. Still using Micro HDMI, weirdly added unusable nvme ensuring people know its not the final product and if they want nvme they'll be having to pay for a replacement at some point down the lin
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by esskay 2y ago
They dont need to merge with intel to get the entire x86 market, they'll be getting that anyway if Intel folds. Even if Intel gets bought out, it'll be in pieces. Nobody wants to enter the x86 market, but there may be smaller segm
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by esskay 2y ago
I do not at all think it will happen, nor does it make any sense at all but the rumours of Apple seemingly being interested in buying out Intel dont seem to be going away. I can see them wanting certain parts of the business (GPU mainly) bu
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by esskay 2y ago
Yup my dad bought an iMac back in 2014. It was that one model that didn't support targeted display mode. It broke about a month back (looks like drive failure) but had been having tons of issues before this due to newer software droppi
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by esskay 2y ago
It's sad that we consider 5-10 years to be "legacy" in any way shape or form. It does seem to very much just be at the consumer level. We've still got servers chugging away in datacenters that are pushing 15 years old an
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by esskay 2y ago
Pretty clear this is only affecting US cloud services so you arent affected.
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by esskay 2y ago
Counterpoint: They could've lowered their capacity without changing plans if they were indeed seeing lower uptake, and increase capacity as/when it's needed if it did indeed ever pick up. They wouldn't be the first provi
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by esskay 2y ago
Never seen any politics on there personally. It seems to respect your interests a bit better. Grab a few starterlists for subjects you're interested in and that should narrow it down and make it more tailored.
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by esskay 2y ago
Most likely office space. Thee's a big customer support hub in Ireland. If you've ever spoken to Apple on the phone from the UK for example, it's almost always going to be to someone based in their Cork offices.
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Not really a Japan exclusive thing, it's had massive growth recently.
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by esskay 2y ago
No it's not just you. I/O on the Pi4 and below is awful, but for most applications it doesn't matter. Not sure on the Pi 5 as I jumped ship after the scalping and overall negativity around the foundation's activities in
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by esskay 2y ago
Thing is once you start looking outside of the base model it becomes a bit less of a good offering when there are others making compatible boards that are arguably better specced. The only issue of course is some whilst sharing the same for
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by esskay 2y ago
I guess the question would be that assuming the US was to dominate the technology, is that more profitable than a steady stream of revenue from oil exports? Building fusion plants would be a massive money maker initially as everyone races t
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by esskay 2y ago
As nice as that would be, if we think about it logically it's not at all in the US governments interests for Fusion to work. Suddenly that massive pot of money from natural resources (e.g Oil) vanishes.
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Honestly surprised he's not bought/started a company to work on it so he can proudly proclame they've cracked it and it's coming next year on repeat.
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Fair enough. Then we must declare that every single printer with an enclosure and heatbed has a heated chamber.
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Symfony took venture capital years ago, it's no different really: https://www.sourceguardian.com/blog-symfony-gets-boost-from-...
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by esskay 2y ago
It's mainly things like rods and motors from the looks of it. The electronic kits used to be the most expensive parts when building your own printer so makes sense to reuse these and just pay for the frame. It's a smart move on th
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by esskay 2y ago
They're on a bit of a streak of very poor business decisions really. They did the same with the XL, they've been caught lying in marketing materials (the Mini for example was advertised as having power loss recovery at launch, whi
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by esskay 2y ago
Have you looked at the parts shop? You absolutely can repair a Bambu printer, and as someone with a farm of the things can attest that it's no more complex than working on Prusa's. You still need to buy the parts from somewhere. B

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