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Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them on Saturday January 23, 2021 @06:26PM (#25887098)
Louis Rossman is a good one although it’s pretty focused on MacBook repairs.
Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them on Saturday January 23, 2021 @06:17PM (#25887031)
Exactly that!
Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them on Saturday January 23, 2021 @06:00PM (#25886935)
Also I do appreciate the feedback, I have tamed down the ads on the site- I’m usually behind my pihole so didn’t realise quite how annoying they were.
Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them on Saturday January 23, 2021 @05:52PM (#25886889)
Whilst the ad revenue normally doesn’t even cover the hosting costs of the site - which isn’t even expensive! It does give me the motivation to write more content.

If you don’t like ads feel free to use an Adblock - I use https://adblockplus.org/

If you want to buy a Pi for a very low price you could even setup pihole: https://pi-hole.net/

There’s nothing misleading when I say I’m not doing this to make a quick buck. I’m really not it’s just a lockdown project as there really isn’t much else to do in my spare time.

Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:10PM (#25885596)
I’d love too! Maybe one day once the pandemic is over.
Re:I bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them on Saturday January 23, 2021 @02:53PM (#25885484)
Thanks for the share!
Re:HannStar EMC-3412 a retro x86 SBC on Saturday January 16, 2021 @05:04PM (#25805945)
Hello, thanks for the share!
Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:45AM (#25611553)
Exactly!
Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:44AM (#25611546)
It’s in the article. 4.15 compiled specifically for the onboard SOC. It’s not a Debian kernel.
Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC on Saturday January 02, 2021 @04:41AM (#25611534)
I tried that, it refused to execute armel binaries however arm64 worked fine.

I’m not sure if it’s a bug or something I was doing wrong but I gave up and just finished the install on the device.

Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC on Friday January 01, 2021 @10:10AM (#25603738)
The board already has spi flash but it’s only 8 or 16mb. Enough for buildroot or maybe openwrt but Debian ain’t going to fit in there.
Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:36AM (#25603522)
It doesn’t, it’s Linux only for now. Unless someone builds uboot for bsd. Even then there would be a huge amount of work to do to get it running stable.
Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:33AM (#25603502)
I remember running it on this cheap iomega NAS drive around the same time. Very similar specs although it had a SATA controller.
Re:Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:25AM (#25603444)
I agree, or even something like openwrt. This was just to see if it could be done, it’s not the most practical OS for the hardware but it runs pretty well!
Re:Raspberry Pi Alternatives in 2021: Hackboard, Zimaboard, RockPi, Od... on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:04PM (#25574999)
My mistake, sorry!
Re:ITX Motherboard with an Elbrus CPU on Monday December 28, 2020 @03:46PM (#25563026)
Back then these were designed specifically for government agencies within Russia. Suppliers weren’t allowed to ship them outside of Russia unless you could prove it was for certain research projects. I found someone that was willing to buy a Elbrus motherboard and ship it to me, it got stuck at Russian customs and returned to the sender - fortunately he managed to return it to the supplier and I got my money back.
Re:ITX Motherboard with an Elbrus CPU on Monday December 28, 2020 @09:49AM (#25559560)
I agree, the bootloader is a massive shame! Personally I’d rather go with a power9 based board. But let’s see where this goes, it’s certainly interesting.

I built a website uptime checker and I'm looking for feedback

Posted by jamesmd on Sunday December 22, 2019 @02:38PM
from the self-post dept.

I know there are other website uptime monitors and checkers so you may be wondering why this is any different?It checks the uptime very frequently to show the true website uptime present and passed.Runs from multiple locationsLightweighteasy to useURL: https://isitup.sitePurpose To check the uptime of websites both current and historic.Technologies Used DEBIAN 10, PHP7, REDIS, Bootstrap,...

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Re:All Unregistered 3 Digit .eu domains on Thursday November 05, 2015 @06:48AM (#10512809)
Fair point :)

DNtalk.xyz – Domaining forums

Posted by jamesmd on Monday September 28, 2015 @09:25AM
from the self-post dept.

DNTalk - Free and Open Domain talkA new online community for domainers.This forum was born out of the frustration I have with paid membership based domaining forums.We have no pay walls and no restricted content. We are and always will be a free and open community.Please help us out by registering at http://dntalk.xyz/

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