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  • America’s AI Build-Out Hinges on Chinese Electrical Parts

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  • Surely there has to be some way of mitigating the ecological damage.

    Absolutely there is for most rare Earths or critical minerals!

    Although I’m sure it’s “too expensive”.

    Yep. Or rather, it is far cheaper to accomplish if you don't give a shit about the environment.

  • Raspberry Pi gets eye-watering price rises, new 3GB RAM model

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  • First, I think we both don't like the Pi5. So we are in agreement on that. If you want we can stop right there on the same page.

    I’m not sure why you’re referring to the Pi4

    My first post in this thread was talking about Pi low power and small physical size. I was talking about all Raspberry Pis in general. I never put forth the Pi5. You did when you raised the 5V5A requirement. That exists only on the Pi5. You'll also see in that first post of mine is where I disavowed any recommendation of Pi5.

    You then went on in your next post about Raspberry Pis needing active cooling and heat sinks. Again, that is only the Pi5, which again, I said I don't support.

    So if you're wondering why I keep talking about Pi4 and below is because those are the ones I like. In this thread you keep posting facts about Pi5 (without pointing out that those only apply to Pi5), and so that's why I keep referring to Pi4 (and below).

    You say you don’t use or recommend the Pi5 and yet you’re seemingly arguing that its power supply requirements aren’t a big deal and that improvements should absolutely not be made to it.

    I'm arguing power supply requirements shouldn't be made to Pi4 (or below). I don't use Pi5.

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  • As far as heat goes, these devices already need heatsinks and case fans, so the difference seems negligible.

    Pi 4 and below don't require active cooling. I want to keep it that way.

    Also, good luck using a Pi5

    Again, I offer no defense of Pi5. I don't use it and don't recommend it.

  • America’s AI Build-Out Hinges on Chinese Electrical Parts

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  • China is the only real supplier of Gallium

    Like many other critical materials and rare Earth's (of which Gallium isn't one), the USA has sizable deposits of the materials. What we lack is the ability to refine it usually because the process to do so is so ecologically toxic.

  • Raspberry Pi gets eye-watering price rises, new 3GB RAM model

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  • Low power draw but ridiculous power supply requirements of 5V5A (depending on the model) with a USB-C connector which isnt a thing outside of this specific application meaning they’re going to be expensive and hard to source.

    That's only for the Pi 5 (the highest end unit), and I'll agree that at that level its hard to justify a Pi over a larger computer. Even for the Pi 5 its not that hard to find those Power Supplies. Most laptops today use power supplies that meet or exceed those specs. You're right that those are more expensive than Pi 4 and below Power Supplies.

    They should have just done a barrel plug or put an effing voltage regulator on board like Arduinos.

    Again, no defense of Pi 5 from me. However, for everything below Pi 5, HARD PASS on a voltage regulator. I don't want that heat in the tiny Pi case. At the lower power requirements of Pi4 and below USB power is fine.

  • Thousands lose their jobs in deep cuts at tech giant Oracle

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  • I mean, that wasn't the first rename for silly reasons. There is a long tradition of this for Oracle DB naming. That "c" in 23c meant "cloud". Nothing about the DB 23c required it to installed or run in the cloud. That was in 2012 with DB 12c. Before that in 2003 it was "g" in DB 10g for "grid" (remember the grid computing hype?). Before that in 1998 it was "i" in DB 8i for "internet".

  • Raspberry Pi gets eye-watering price rises, new 3GB RAM model

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  • Pi is also a fraction of the power consumption (meaning also heat dissipation requirements) and physical size.

  • Rule of Acquisition #263

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  • Gordon Gekko would absolutely sell his own future dead remains in slices for capital that could be put to work today.

  • Asking the expert

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  • Not sure why this is the first time I noticed this, but Frakes is really tall! According to the internet he's 6'4". Burton is 5′ 7″. In my head both men were about the same height.

  • A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

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  • 5KB of RAM

    TIL! I've been living a lie for decades thinking the 20 in VIC-20 was the amount of RAM like the 64 in C64 meant the amount of RAM. I only owned the C64, never a VIC-20.

  • A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

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  • Commodore VIC-20 came out in 1980 with 20KB as well.

  • What is a hobby you wish you could do?

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  • I appreciate the reply with your experience and the context. Can I ask what your opinion is on electric paramotors? Do you think they are mature enought yet?

  • Asking the expert

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  • I'd also like to note the meme/joke is set inside a turbo lift.

  • What is a hobby you wish you could do?

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  • Every 5 years go so I think about getting into powered paragliding. It looks amazing! Inevitably each time I find youtube videos talking about how much progress has occurred in the industry...and a heartfelt eulogy about a wildly experienced paraglider pilot that died recently while paragliding. I always turn away with the same thought: "If the very experienced people are dying like this, it is far riskier form me to try."

  • What was the moment you knew you fucked up?

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  • $0.21 isn't going to get you a piece of one. However, if you can come up with another 4 cents and you go down to the bodega on 2nd there's a slice of avocado toast they'll let you get a nibble off of for 25 cents. They also sell loosie cigarettes.

  • Asking the expert

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  • Captain Jellico: “Riker, if I wasn’t already Captain I’d give you a promotion a raise!”

    The extra joke was right there!

  • AI chatbots lure vulnerable gamblers to unlicensed betting websites

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  • Wether AI already contains hidden ads or not, it will be here before we can blink an eye.

    Its not hidden ads. Its likely lazy operating using the public internet for its training data scooping up ads already published elsewhere on the internet. I seriously doubt Facebook, Google, etc got paid to mention those unlicensed casinos after they were specifically prompted to return answers for unlicensed casinos by the article's authors.

    Your rant has nothing to do with the article. Did you see "AI" and then just copy/paste a premade AI rant you had on hand? You're stomping pretty hard on Rule #6 of this lemmy community.

  • House Republicans flee Congress in record numbers amid growing dysfunction

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  • Their sitting congresspeople. They don't have to win an election to affect change. They can simply use their vote to go against the immoral legislation put before them. Instead, they're just heading for the exits and months or years of voting for the horrible stuff.