I like them. Got the whole house set up with it. Yeah, big corp IT gear will have security risks. I used PoE setups to not need to run electrical to the WAPs, used an AirMax directional antenna to get wifi at an outbuilding without needing to run cable or a powerful outdoor WAP for mesh or whatever broadcasting my wifi all over the neighborhood. Works great, stable, a bit fiddly to set up but once it’s set up it’s golden. I recommend buying used off ebay for all gear except the cloud key controller.

They come back from Harvard smarter, think too much, and asking questions.

Can’t have that.

Do you have any evidence that industrial manufacturers are sourcing Pi 5’s as controllers of choice? I think most manufacturers would use proprietary or purpose built controllers meeting required durability needs.

I don’t know what people would need a Pi 5 16gb for other than using it as a low-powered PC alternative. I’ve got a bunch of 4’s and 3’s doing utilitarian tasks, from running an older 3D printer to PiHole. One I’m using as a budget PC in the garage to listen to music and look up how-to videos if I get stumped on something.

A $200+ 5 seems outside the needs of the users who have viewed Pi’s as relatively inexpensive hobbyist devices, but below the needs of people needing to do the work of desktop PCs.

I’m sure there’s niche uses for them, but is there actual demand for them?

Oh great, some wildly overpriced and underperforming GPUs.

Edit: went looking at Intel’s desktop GPUs and found this gem:

Powerful AI Engines

Unlock new AI experiences with up to 233 TOPS of AI engine performance for content creation, real-time AI chat, editing, and upscaled gaming.3

And checked out the specs for performance of Intel’s top cards (B580/A770) against a basic 3080 card (no OC/TI, whatever) and the intel cards ranked well below the older 3080, and weren’t even in the ballpark against upper tier 4- and 5- series Nvidia cards. Plus missing features like DLSS, etc.

Good enough for non-FPS dependent gaming? Sure. Can’t beat the price, I was wrong about that. Want to play high-FPS demanding twitch gaming? No.

The rules don’t matter if you’re on the Right. If you show up and they ask you to take it off, you’re probably at a safe polling place. If they don’t ask you to remove it, vote unmolested.

The richest man on Earth will absolutely get a bailout on our dime and not spend a cent of his net worth.

Need them to fire “parachutes” at satellites. The material will change the center of mass making the satellite difficult to control, obscure antenna and solar panels, and increase the small amounts of drag satellites experience causing them to use more fuel trying to correct orientation and de-orbit far sooner. No extra debris in orbit.

Absolutely. And if the AI market takes a hit it will barely affect a government contracted space program that will get a taxpayer funded bailout if it has any trouble at all.

“Valuable”

Yes. In Windows 12.

Yes. The Tulsa race massacre for instance. Not that I’m comparing the current state of politics to longstanding racism, only that once you are sufficiently demonized by conservatives they have no problem killing you. And you can find similar events big and small throughout American history.

Severe illness or a gulag.

50 lb over 8 weeks is pretty insane. 1 lb/week is pretty good. 2 a week is pushing it.

50 isn’t going to happen without consequences.

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2019? Damn.

There’s a difference between a movie you want to go see in a theater and the film assigned as classwork by a professor.

Same as if you were told you had to read a book by an author you don’t care for in a writing style that doesn’t click with you snd maybe even from a different time with framing that doesn’t exist today.

It’s work.

Maybe desire to play with a phone and use social media might be an issue, but at least some of these same kids that have a hard time sitting through a film would have doodled, started falling asleep or just daydreamed instead.

I’ll expect my free credit score check sometime in the next 2 years.

Hopefully it will stay that way.

Blender is safe.

Nothing is impossible to fuck up when you have enough money and/or lawyers.

You’re not wrong. Just have to be selective which brand printer you buy - and I say that with the awareness that a company can enshittify an online printer capable of monitoring cartridge use/ID at their whim. BS Proprietary cartridges that know when they’ve been used up and tattle someone’s refilled them and refuse to work (looking at you, HP).