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I think Minetest is in a similar vein, and for similar reasons. And it's F/LOSS.

Only if they take to it. :)

You are not wrong. However x86 is dead to me for having a BIOS level backdoor built in that you can't get rid of (probably; yes I know about ME Cleaner). Not to mention Intel sat on their laurels for years. ARM are far from perfect, but maybe some competition gets things progressing again.

There are projects (like Armbian) working to improve that situation, but they can always use more help.

https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-needs-your-help/

You asked about mini-PCs, which I don't have, however just for comparison I can say I have ODROID-XU4 + cubietruck here running and only drawing about 2W total between both of them.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend those (especially the cubietruck) these days, but there are lots of Single Board Computers (SBC) out there besides RPi.[0]

[0] https://www.armbian.com/download/

> Has someone already investigated how this happened?

Intel finally got some competition and had to get off their ass for a change!

There, no investigation required! :)

> a kid’s “my first Linux PC"?

Any old desktop from a garage sale (if you can find one). People are practically giving them away these days, everyone wants tablets/phones now. We scored a quite decent one, complete with monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. for like $25 (IIRC)!

In fairness, that was a few years ago, but I am sure there are deals to be had if you look around.

I would not recommend ARM/SBC for "first GNU/Linux computer" necessarily, you will likely have an easier time on x86, as much as I hate to say it.

It's not just them, the majority of SBC manufacturers are on these bizarre old Linux forks that have been patched all to hell and will never see mainline. Kind of same situation with most smartphones, too (as they are all the same SoCs).

There are some very noble projects (like PostmarketOS for phones, and Armbian for SBC) who try to be "mainline first" to keep these fascinating little devices going longer (and more reliably). They do an amazing job considering what they have to work with, but these are not big companies with a lot of resources behind them, so if you care about this sort of thing (not you specifically, that's for anyone reading) then consider perhaps lending a hand (or a few bucks)!

Cheers! :)

Not that I ever plan to buy anything from them ever again, but reminders are always helpful for everyone. :)

> It looks like google is done with labeling data for image recognition.

Rise of the machines soon.

You got further than me. Just seeing the size of the monstrosity was enough for me to nope the f out.

Well, that on top of the creepy uneasiness I always feel whenever dealing with companies like Google (or M$, FANG, etc.).

Shared hosting plan with email and a catch-all address (the latter being key to the whole thing).

Everyone I give an email address out to gets a unique one in the form: [email protected].

As an added bonus, I have a place for blog, website, and reliable long term picture/file hosting.

Well worth the $20-30 per year it costs me (per domain), IMO. I have one domain for my IRL identity (my family surname), and others for pseudonyms.

I am glad to see a growing chorus of people voicing similar concerns, which myself and others have long held. The article links to a similar article from Drew DeVault for instance (down at the bottom).

Perhaps if nothing changes after a while, it might become time to add your voice to the other public pleas. Or maybe speak to PINE64 directly/privately (I don't know how well you know them).

I would really like to see someone raise the same questions this article does at the next community Q&A.

There are many interesting alternatives available:

https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported

There are many Armbian supported devices[0] which make great alternatives.

[0] https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported

I like PINE64's stuff, too.

Armbian is another good choice, for people who prefer Debian based OS.

Look man, just ditch the yahoo email already.

> algorithms/data structures

Certainly someone can recommend a good resource here?

The Wizard Book maybe?

Yep, came here to say this.

It doesn't get any more anonymous than cash in the mail. :)

That, in itself, is another nice feature of F-Droid. It allows you to add additional repositories of your own choosing.

It's so refreshing, especially compared to $megacorp <strike>control freak</strike>, er, security measures, yeah that's it!

> I was worried from the description that it would include a DE and stuff I don’t need for a headless machine

Oh no (as you learned). In fact, desktop releases are a relatively newer thing for us (in the last couple years).

Glad you are enjoying it! Drop by IRC or forums and say hello any time!

Cheers!

> Training data is easy to find.

Got a good chuckle from that, I did! :D

Important project changes, both technical and not.

Highlights:

- important (non-technical) project changes

- hundreds of kernel and user space related bug fixes

- added rolling Debian (sid) based releases

- added generic stable and rolling UEFI arm64 & x86 images

- added Raspberry Pi images

- upcoming Ubuntu 22.04 LTS images are ready

- new Extensions build framework

- extensive build automation (CI/CD) improvements

Armbian is a Debian-based distribution for Arm-based single-board computers (SBCs).

You can use accrual basis in Beancount.

It has been linked already a few times, but https://plaintextaccounting.org really is an excellent resource.

There is also a Beancount specific one: https://github.com/xuhcc/beancount-mobile

It's available in F-Droid.

I found it worked better for me.

But I only use that for cash or other things where I don't get a receipt. For the 99% I do get a receipt, I take a photo of said receipt. Then I deal with it later at my desktop or laptop where I have a real keyboard.

I actually wrote some helper script that works on top of Dired (in Emacs) to gather things like Payee and accounts using a completing-read (narrowing) style interface. This reduces friction A LOT, which I think is one of the keys to success in any chore.