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  • An alternative way to power Raspberry Pi 5

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  • I did this on an embedded project a few years back.Put a header for the rPi to mount on, and the motherboard powered the rPi (as well as everything controlled by the rPi).Worked a treat.

  • Tips/Resources on the Shell.

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  • sudo is a command that "does" something as "super user"

    Fun fact, it originally stood for "superuser do", however it now stands for "substitute user do" as it can "do" as any user - it's just that the default user argument is root (IE super user)

  • RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components

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  • Pretty sure all ram manufacturers are Korean? I guess China puts chips on PCBs, maybe? But South Korea has the knowledge . And it had met domestic demand. RAM prices have been acceptable for many many years.It's the AI sector that is inflating demand (maybe by circular investment and contracts).So, I don't see anyone investing 10 years into the future to make ddr6 ram where their business plan relies on current trends.

  • RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components

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  • It must take so much R&D to achieve anything remotely comparable to what Samsung, Micron (/Crucial... RIP) and SK Hynix can produce.

    Fingers crossed they can either undercut the 3(now 2) big producers, which is doubtful. But hopefully they can help reduce the maximum price that decent memory can inflate to. Because at some point a medium sized customer is gonna get fed up of the Samsung/micron/skHynix bullshit, and custom order the ram they need, and such a smaller producer will provide a much better service for a similar price

  • RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components

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  • Only for multi CPU mobos (and that would be pinning a thread to a CPU/core with NUMA enabled where a task accessed local ram instead of all system ram). Even then, I think all ram would run at the lowest frequency.I've never mixed CPUs and RAM speeds. I've only ever worked on systems with matching CPUs and ram modules.

    I think the hardware cost and software complexity to achieve this is beyond the cost of "more ram" or "faster storage (for faster swap)"

  • RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components

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  • I don't remember any technology being pushed as hard as AI

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  • Windows defender uses Blockchain? Why?

    Edit:Oh, I get it. The virus mines crypto. Antivirus stops the virus. Hence I have a good antivirus.Went way over my head

  • I don't remember any technology being pushed as hard as AI

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  • Never had Blockchain forced into operating systems

  • When the US nuked Japan was there any worry about a radiation cloud possibly floating to another country that was not involved? Or is this even possible?

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  • Thank you for confirming I haven't seriously misread something here.Felt like I was taking crazy pills for a second there!

  • When the US nuked Japan was there any worry about a radiation cloud possibly floating to another country that was not involved? Or is this even possible?

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  • Yeh, they did.They were extremely smart people.And they considered the possibility of that happening.They calculated the probability of it happening, considered their known-unknowns and unknown-unknowns in their calculations, and concluded the possibility (including their error margin) was so incredibly low that it wouldn't happen.And they were right.

    A scary prospect, to be sure.But ultimately, that's what experts do.Anyone can build a bridge that will stay up, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that only barely stays up.

  • When the US nuked Japan was there any worry about a radiation cloud possibly floating to another country that was not involved? Or is this even possible?

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  • I mean, I guess? Kinda?

    You said you didn't know the specific on the bombs dropped.Ok, so 0 information on the bomb dropped.

    But that Chernobyl created a massive cloud of fallout that impacted neighbouring countries and caused acid rain.Well, that's true. But that wasn't a fusion explosion.

    So, it felt like you were trying to relate 2 unrelated things. Like an apples-to-oranges situation.

    I feel that I clarified that the bombs dropped were designed to converted all fusable material to energy. They were literally designed to weaponise fusion.And that the fallout from Chernobyl wasn't caused by material turning into energy (ie fusion), but from particle dispersion.

    So, I guess.In that you said you had 0 knowledge of Thing A, and stated an unrelated fact about Thing B. Where both things are true, and are related by the fact that nuclear fuel is involved. But that's as far as the relationships go

    But everything you said after "yes" does nothing to support the "yes"

  • When the US nuked Japan was there any worry about a radiation cloud possibly floating to another country that was not involved? Or is this even possible?

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  • Pretty sure the fallout from Chernobyl was all the radioactive particles dispersed into the atmosphere by the initial explosion of reactor 4, and the subsequent fires of radioactive and contaminated materials.Literally a "dirty bomb" dispersing radioactive material, instead of the radioactive material being converted directly to energy

  • When the US nuked Japan was there any worry about a radiation cloud possibly floating to another country that was not involved? Or is this even possible?

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  • Fair question

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  • Important stuff isn't a plain white envelope.Important stuff isn't sent just once, you get reminder letters.So, I can sort the post another day because it looks like it hasn't changed since yesterweek

  • Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? [SOLVED]

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  • Oh, and on the "fail often" thing...Get a basic/old/free pc/laptop and install Proxmox on it.Loads of tutorials out there, but the basic installer will get you to a "I'm learning" stage.

    Create a VM, install Debian, play around.Then: create a new VM, install Debian, create a snapshot, play around until it does what you want, restore the snapshot, do the steps that got you from vanilla to what you want. Create snapshots along the way as checkpoints. Snapshot, tinker, restore snapshot, advance.

    Proxmox is amazing for learning VMs and server things

  • Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? [SOLVED]

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  • Raspberry pis are an easy intro to actually using computers (instead of using something like windows).Raspbian is great (based on Debian) and there is a HUGE community for it.

    So yeh, it's a great started for $25, as long as you have a PSU and SD Card. And an hdmi cable + monitor + keyboard at your disposal (and a mouse if you are installing a desktop environment (IE something like windows, whereas headless is a full screen CLI).And don't get your hopes up for a windows replacement.

    But.... Why not run a Virtual Machine? If you have a windows machine, run VirtualBox, create a VM and install Debian on it?That's free. You can tinker and play.And the only thing you are missing from an actual raspberry pi is that it isn't a standalone device (IE your desktop has to be on for it to be running), and it doesn't have GPIO (ie hardware pins. And if this is your goal, there are other ways).

    If you really really want a computer that is on all the time running Linux (Debian, a derivative (like raspbian) or some other distro) - aka a server - then there are plenty of other options where the only drawback is lack of GPIO (which, in my experience, is rarely a drawback).And that is literally any computer you can get your hands on. Because the raspberry pi trades A LOT for its form factor, the ethernet speed is limited, the bus speed is limited (impacting USB and ethernet (and ram?)), the SD card is slower and will fail faster than any HDD/SSD. The benefit is the GPIO, the very low power draw, and the form factor - rarely actually a benefit.

    I'd say, play around with some virtual box VMs. See what you want, other than Fear Of Missing Out (things like PiHole? They run on Debian, or even in a docker container). Then see if you actually want a home server, and what you want to run on it.It's likely you won't want a raspberry pi, but a $150 mini pc that can actually do what you want.

  • Japanese devs face font licensing dilemma as leading provider increases annual plan price from $380 to $20,000+

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  • I think the collab would be more likely.

    Ideally the government would create public domain fonts for their official languages.If they publish in that language then they should support the font for that language.

    Funding such an endeavour as a single studio/designer would require making over 6000 characters for the font ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208 ).I'm sure modern unicode could do wonders to reduce that number (kanji has ~2,000).

  • Oh! Here is terminal for you

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  • I've had "cmd" default to "CmDust.exe" which is a program installed by Codemeter (a hardware dongle licence thing).Considering I used to type "cmd" and get CmDuat.exe, I was happy when Terminal became easier to launch. And Terminal is great to use, imo

  • Oh! Here is terminal for you

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  • Yeh, it's come as standard on windows for a few years now, right?I don't ever remember installing it on any windows computers I've used and it's always been there