Sixty percent of the time… it works everytime.

Okay, thanks.

Do you have a preference among these? Particularly for light-weight home servers and simple networked devices like a security camera?

Woah for real??

See, how am I supposed to hear that and not think RPi is the GOAT? I don’t know what else to say. That seems to be in a league of it’s own to me.

Yes, very. Thank you.

Huh. Can you point to any good projects that demonstrate this? Because I don’t see how this is a substitute for a Pi.

Currently, I’m looking to replace an upgrade an instance of NextCloud running on a Pi, and I’m curious if this is an option.

Okay great. Please share examples.

(If you don’t respond or reply without examples, I’m not going to reply to it, but everyone reading this is gonna know that you’re talking out of your ass.)

That’s interesting. What’s a thin client? I’m not familiar.

A Mac Mini seems like an interesting option. What OS do you run on it?

But over time other devices have caught up if not exceeded the Pi’s capabilities and it no longer stands out in any particular way.

If this is true, it’s great news to me, and I’d like you to show me where I can get a nice, cheap, well-supported single board computer.

Both are excellent devices. It’s hard to compare them from a hardware standpoint because I think there are so few cases in which you would have to pick between these two.

I think you could compare them in terms of fan appeal, in the same way you can compare Liverpool FC and the Greenbay Packers, not as rival teams but as two totally different teams that people love. But just like in that case, it would seem silly to argue that the Packers are better than Liverpool (or vice versa), you know?

Can you share some links?

Raspberry Pi B+ on AdaFruit for $29.95

I agree with you that it sucks that the latest gen aren’t $45 anymore, but they still make and sell a $30 computer. If anyone can do better I definitely want to know.

Ditto. I built a starship computer for my niece that ran on Pygame.

Honestly, I’m surprised that there aren’t more alternatives by now. It’s been such a fixture for so many years I would’ve expected alternatives, but every few years I go looking and end up buying another Pi for my project.

It’s kind of indispensable for so many projects.

My suspicion is that a collapse in the Israeli state would look a lot like the present, spiraling out of anyone’s control: the settler terrorists would further ratchet up attacks in the West Bank; soldiers in the West Bank would harass and kill more brazenly, without fear of even the limited accountability that can come from a toothless denouncement or a suspension. Soldiers in Gaza might move from checkpoints and bombing runs to militia pogroms driving through streets gunning down civilians. The limited protections for the relatively privileged Arabs & non-Jews within the '48 borders could evaporate: mobs dragging women from their homes for sexual violence and murder in the daylit streets. And all of this would likely be in a shroud of fog, as the limited journalistic capacity that occasionally breaks through to international attention is drowned out by attention on riots in the imperial core of the nation.

In the long term, this could be a step towards a better future. But in the short term I would expect a shift from organized military-led genocide to a more traditional form of rabid mass ethnic killing.

Yeah.

I know it’s natural to feel schadenfreude at the prospect of state collapse in Israel, but fwiw, I don’t look forward to it with any joy.

If this is the next phase, so be it. But it will be very, very ugly. The violent collapse of Israel will not lead to relief for Palestinians in the short term.

Still, I’ve said for years: what Israel is doing to the Palestinians they are doing to themselves. Watching the corrosion of Israeli society, their violence has always looked like a manic frenzy of mass-self harm.

Weirdly, though, Friends seems to hold up better.

Despite being much older, I recall walking through a room where a friend’s roommates were watching Friends around 2016. I was stuck by two things:

First, that I’d noticed that a bunch of people seemed to be getting into Friends for the first time. I think it had just come to Netflix, and in addition to folks nostalgia watching, Gen z and younger millennials were discovering it. Which was why it was on.

Second, it was really watchable. I immediately paused to join them, and the jokes were landing. It had been a very long time since I’d watched a show with a laugh track, but it worked. The show was solidly entertaining.

I think both possibilities are likely, and not mutually exclusive.

You’re likely to improve your forensic skills with basic practice, but you’re also likely to have a distorted view of your capacities.

Everything Rob Schieder started in.

None were very well liked even when they were fresh, but things like “Big Stan”, in which his pipsqueak convict character has to go on a karate-kid-style journey to learn martial arts from David Carrodine in order to fend off rapists before he heads off to prison is kind of a case study in a whole genre that could be called ‘damn, you really thought that was funny?’

Norm MacDonald and some of the other SNL folks dabbled in some of the same jokes, but were much more talented, so some of this stuff feels a little forgivable. Schneider though… oof.

Also: I haven’t seen it, but I’m going to guess that 2008’s “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” – in which Adam Sandler stars as an Israeli Mossad super ninja who wants to be a stylist – probably didn’t age great.

It’s a sex comedy about a guy trying to be sexually abstinent, and in the climax of the film he fails because a woman has explicitly non consentual sex with him, in a framing the film presents favorably.

I haven’t seen it, btw. This is the description I’ve heard.

ULGH!

I’m pissed at Lula. I like his general movement, but I see two lessons we all need to recognize:

1. Every left-leaning movement needs youth and dynamism. No matter how much we may appreciate elders like Bernie Sanders, politics is a contact sport, and if we can’t find people who aren’t grand parents, it’s because we haven’t been training our bench. We can include our elders, but we need to have much more regular turnover, with far fewer elder leaders.

2. We cannot allow corruption in leftist movements. This shit is WAY too important. The global far right has major structural advantages, and public trust is one of the biggest requirements for antifacist movements. When leftists get associated with self-interest, it blows the project apart and creates openings for this shit.

I hope Lula wins, but after this, get the new leaders with iron-clad integrity ready and get the old guard the fuck out of leadership into an advisory capacity.

We have to break this cycle. A successful leftist movement should gain power between elections, not be back to defending itself from coin-toss election after coin-toss election.