Sorry I can't see what you're trying to show me. The sun is in my eyes.

I hate to post this, but Don Hui (Novaspirit Tech) passed away yesterday.

Very brief video about it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkGq...) — his family requested donations to his son Zachery's 529 college fund: (see reply)

Good news! The insulation in my building is better than expected; temps stayed above 60°F. Checked security cams and looks like no problems.

Power was restored after 4 hours. Good thing we didn't have more freezing rain otherwise outages would've been worse.

Asked & answered.

Something to keep in mind for 2025

Written by James Miller of A Small Fiction

Happy holidays all 😌

If anyone from Rockchip stumbles upon here, a rhetorical question:

Why would I consider any of your future products, in anything? Not just SBCs, but if I look at a streaming box, and I see that the SOC manufacturer won't support it going forwards, why would I buy it?

What the hell are they doing with all those cycles behind our backs? Because it sure ain't going to spell check or cell formulae. We're all being swindled on a massive scale.

It's not like meaningful features have been added to word processors or spreadsheets since 1995. It's all exactly the same. And they really expect us to believe we need literally ONE THOUSAND TIMES as much computing power to accomplish the very same things now. Lie right to your face.

Living with the rage of having seen, first-hand, the bitter truth behind the lies: a fully functional operating system and office suite can run perfectly well on 32mb RAM and a 200mhz CPU.

The White-hottest possible take:

Graphics don't matter as long as the game is fun.

Modder successfully hacks missing M.2 slot into Pi 500: www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/pi...

Posted this at the old place, but thought folks on @bsky.app might like to know I finally met my "mother".