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by foxfluff 5y ago
And on the other hand, limited tools spark the creativity to create something better. I've been learning kicad recently and it is damn hard to resist the urge to start a project to make a better tool..
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by foxfluff 5y ago
IP addresses can be uniquely identifying. I've had the same IP for years, it's static, and if you did a Google search for it a few years ago, you got straight to my full name and location (because that used to be on whois databas
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yes they do something. They are used to override precedence, just as you would in a math expression. Array indexing has higher precedence than pointer dereferencing, and declarations follow the same precedence that you have in expressions
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yeah, the syntax doesn't really excite to me too much. Which is a shame, because I would like to see a modernized "better C" that isn't more verbose than C.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
They do have a battery, of course they have a battery. But they want to keep it sustainable, which a large battery is arguably not: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is...
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yeah sometimes you do need to touch things that you can't bring home. But there are people like me, people who do touch hardware.. at home. My desk is full of hardware. Behind me there's another desk with an oscilloscope, lab ps
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I don't see any real killer (technical) feature. But I think that's always been the case for the Raspberry products: you could always get the same (and often better) features in other boards (though this may be less true as of th
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Not at all. It's just that writing drivers and supporting all the peripherals is a massive undertaking (even Linux is often way behind on support -- chips that came out years ago might have poor or no support for some peripherals and
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Fwiw Allwinner/Sochip do sell a CPU with 128MB of DDR3 in the package (S3). You do need to provide 1.5V supply for the DRAM.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> The Raspberry Pi isn't competing with a microcontroller. They're on opposite ends of the computing spectrum. The spectrum is wider than that, but if you're comparing Pi and MCUs, today you have 32 bit multi-core ARM micr
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Not really, but that's because I largely dismiss the early Pis altogether. They sit in the awkward space where they're larger and faster than a microcontroller but practically speaking require an OS that wastes a lot of the avail
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Do you have any references for MTBF or the Pi's failure modes in general? SD cards going out are pretty much the only thing people talk about, and that problem is easy to solve. Another thing is bad power supplies, again easily solve
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Fwiw Alpine Linux is very easy to set up in diskless mode. That's what I used for my first Pi 4 install. It does boot up and load packages from the sd card, but after that everything runs from RAM.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I've also been the only remote person on a team pre-pandemic. I never needed the camera. We did use it for a stint but switched to audio only due to technical issues. Even when we had the cameras on, I'd quickly end up switchin
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I never liked the Pi's NIH config stuff, but I'm running 64 bit Alpine Linux on a Pi 4 without any major issues. Still it's quite underpowered for me to treat it like a daily use laptop/pc.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
What does the CM offer that the Pi4 doesn't have?
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yea, it's the same here. Probably most of the EU. Thing is, most of the stuff I buy is online. Local retailers taking things for recycling does nothing to encourage the maker of a product I buy online to keep supporting it or open it
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yep. Where I live it's very rare for cops to use their guns, and when it happens, you hear about it in the news. And if it wasn't just a warning shot to the air, you're going to hear about it again when they try to find out
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yea I've been thinking about this. Open up specs, schematics, docs, and code, or actually support it "forever" (not literally, but a decently long time). It might be a bit extreme though. To provide some incentive, I'
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> I think this goes somewhat beyond right to repair? Something like right to use would be nice. If you need specs or docs or source code for the software/hardware to be usable , then it should be provided. And IMO that should inc
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I've come to call it the "printable document format." Great for dead trees, sucks for screens.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Already the case with proprietary banking apps..
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by foxfluff 5y ago
It turned into that (more than) a decade ago. I was still browsing the web with links2 and a tiny text mode browser (similar to w3m) of my own writing until around the time google said "let's kill IE6." Shortly after that, t
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by foxfluff 5y ago
C neckbeard here. I do fully hope and expect and assume the compiler to fold constants and figure out as much at compile time as it can. This is the kind of optimization that doesn't make the code harder to reason about, even when co
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Playful indeed. https://playonbsd.com/ There's a nice small community of OpenBSD gamers. :)
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I'm not super fond of rolling releases. It always feels weird when people recommend Arch or Void to an OpenBSD user. OpenBSD has very nice releases with a tested & documented update process between each.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I don't consider poor performance to be bloat (though poor performance can be a symptom of excess bloat). Bloat is more about obesity, and it shows in disk usage (upgrades take forever? yeah two gigabytes of data across 2000 packages
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Well, if you ever have the time to give it a try.. Alpine is the most OpenBSD-like Linux distro I've yet to see. Of course, it's still not OpenBSD.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Well, ps on linux shows kernel threads whereas on OpenBSD it doesn't. The list is pretty short on my alpine install if you exclude kernel threads: # ps ax | grep -v ']$' PID USER TIME COMMAND 1 root
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Does Alpine Linux feel bloated too?

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