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Re:Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:53AM (#50273580)
Right now, I think the sweet spot is getting a Raspberry Pi 400 for USD$50 ( Microcenter).

A Pi400 is a very capable 4GB ram Linux machine, working out of the box. I have a few, each doing a different job. I just ssh to them with a beefier machine plugged on LLMs tools, and it's really fun and exciting.

Then Mini pcs, you can get a good deal here and there, for a more capable machine with a little bit more flexibility.

ESP32s are also awesome and I have been playing with them but not as a replacement of these light linux servers.

Re:Borland Turbo Basic on Monday October 05, 2026 @12:24PM (#49966945)
I absolutely loved the help docs that came in Borland products. To this day they are my gold standard of documentation and nothing has ever meet them. I learned so much simply navigating their docs. The best part was that they had actual examples that you could see it working, copy/paste modify. To an extent, a taste of open source.
The website at least. Just look for the word "not". LLMs love writing things like "it's not ice cream, is pasta", "you get a full dog, not a cat".
They are here right now, writing comments, upvoting and downvoting.
Re:Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @11:19AM (#48109606)
What about Elegoo Centauri Carbon? I've had my eye on this for some time.
It seems that it's quire more complicated than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medici...
Re:Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader on Thursday May 07, 2026 @09:22AM (#48049126)
I bought one yesterday from AliExpress. I hope I'm able to install new firmwares on it.
Re:Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:38PM (#47894838)
And sometimes 3 can be "every other CEO is doing it, let's do it too. At least we already have the narrative.".
Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @01:06PM (#47590392)
At least they had a decency of avoiding the ambiguity of doing this during April 1st.
Re:Pentagon Formally Labels Anthropic Supply-Chain Risk on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:48PM (#47267075)
Thanks, I had deleted the app from all my devices but not deleted the account. I have deleted my account now too.
Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:09PM (#47221685)
I really like this setup:

iPad + Korg microKEY-37 + KORG Gadget 3 + all a bunch of KORG apps

No subscriptions. Keyboard is wireless but no noticeable latency. In my workflow I pretty much never need more keys but if I do I just use a MIDI adapter and plug a larger keyboard.

KORG apps go on 50% sale several times every year.

Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:04PM (#47221629)
iPad Pro (4th generation) 2020 here. Life was good then updated OS with liquid glass. Big mistake.
Re:Palm OS User Interface Guidelines [pdf, 2003] on Thursday February 26, 2026 @01:52PM (#47170359)
I still remember using Palm OS for the first time and having my little mind blown away because there was no save buttons (at least in the version and apps I was using). You edited a document and that's it, it was saved. Like writing on paper.

Nowadays a lot of applications behave like this but back then it was a very different from everything I had ever used.

Re:0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix on Monday February 23, 2026 @02:19PM (#47127333)
I have been playing 0ad, single player, medium/hard difficulty, round-robing all maps, for years now. Great game. I have to try mods one of these days.
Re:Voith Schneider Propeller on Thursday February 19, 2026 @03:11PM (#47078559)
The same article in german has some nice animations: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith-Schneider-Antrieb
I'm deep in the Gridfinity rabbit hole but this seems a good compromise since my 3d printer broke.
Re:Proof of Corn on Friday January 23, 2026 @01:25PM (#46735864)
This made me think about another contrast, Hayao Miyazaki. His characters ("heroes" or "villains"), usually are more morally complex and nuanced than the ones you would find in the works I typically see depicted in Hollywood. They are not just good or evil. You may not agree with their actions, but you understand the logic of it.
Re:OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S. on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:24PM (#46649929)
Let the enshittification begin.

Then you move to the paid plan, then they move ads to the paid plan, then you move to the premium-extra plan, etc.

Re:Apple Creator Studio on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:11AM (#46602937)
Thanks for the info, I was looking for this. I have the "Pro Apps Bundle for Education" that I bought years ago and it is an fantastic deal.
Re:Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @09:33AM (#46375885)
If you unlock a lock, that's still a lock.

Also, in light of everything that is happening, is incredible that the top comment on this thread is about some minor semantic definitions.

Oh, I wish I could do something like that for my Nokia N800.
Re:Making a Small RPG on Friday November 21, 2025 @10:19AM (#46005358)
Awesome. I while ago I was playing around some JS graphic/game engine/frameworks and came across Kaboom (now Kaplay) and it stroke me as a really different approach to the whole thing. I am now again playing with it and it's really impressive and fun.

Also, thank you for you tutorials. I have stumbled on some of them too.

I was reading the comments trying to find something similar to this. I remember reading a similar explanation. The brain in a ultimate attempt of solving that fatal situation goes deeply thought memories to find anything that could help. Evolutionarily, this would make sense.
Re:Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity on Thursday August 28, 2025 @11:18AM (#45053297)
50% tariff on Brazil so they stop offering lessons in democratic maturity.
Re:I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:44AM (#44864707)
Obsidian + folders (done, wip, todo, trash) + one file per task (and all details and notes inside each file). That's been really good for me.
Re:Ask HN: Why Did Mercurial Die?:( on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @01:53PM (#44801628)
1. Github. 2. Git was created and used as a version control in the development of the Linux kernel. Some people may correctly think: if it's good enough to be the version control for Linux, it should handle my project.
Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @10:54AM (#44647713)
Intelligence sometimes manifests as doing the wrong thing in the most convoluted way.

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