grozzle

it was a cheap kit, i made ten, for a decent sample size, and for practice. thanks for your kind attitude.

am well aware that leaded solder still has some niche applications, but the comment i replied to called lead-free a "clusterfuck" without any regard for the huge public health benefits.

i hope you agree it's good that e-waste isn't toxic.

You've mis-interpreted why I commented.

aerospace is a small part of what soldering is used for, globally. the majority is consumer electronics.

keeping lead out of people's homes is a valuable public-health move, not a needless "clusterfuck", as the comment I replied to said.

I built a few identical fidget-spinner toy kits using either leaded and lead-free solder to decide which type I should keep buying from then on, the leaded stuff was admittedly a tiny bit easier to work with and usually left a slightly shinier (better looking) surface, but not to an adequate degree to justify any real risk (or even continual worry) of brain damage et cetera from voluntarily raising the lead level of my home. Your comment seems unbalanced, to me.

plus the fact that exFAT read/write is cripplingly slow, a MacOS bug for years and years now.

The electronics to drive the right frequency for efficiently heating ferrous metals (about 25KHz) are affordable. The electronics to drive the much higher (at least double?) frequencies for non-ferrous metals safely are not so affordable. It would add more to the cost than a new set of cookware. Cast iron is the king of cookware and works great on IH, anyway!

You can put a few mm thick piece of steel on top of the hob and then set your copper pan on that, as a workaround.

A myth. Copper and aluminium won't heat on a consumer-grade kitchen induction stove, which only have a set of coils designed for ferrous metals, but restaurant kitchen professional IH stoves can use the different frequencies that heat non-ferrous metals, and a forge or melting furnace can indeed melt any metal, ferrous or not.

presumably means "error correcting code", to save the next person from looking up jargon.

Good project, but I've always hated the word "blogroll". It's a pun on "bog roll", like toilet paper, isn't it?

What is fenced off for Europeans? Admittedly I've been living outside of Europe for some time, but some of my self hosted stuff is still based there, and a lot of friends, and I haven't had or heard of a problem with being "kept out" of new products.

My Kirb. What is this negging "yeah if you're into basic stuff" tone? I'm a fan of the genre, I own quite a few SBCs with various chipset manufacturers, and I use them for all kinds of things, from AI-vision voice-trained mobile robots to "simple" Kodi/emu boxes, and I can guarantee that so long as you notice the specific sizes and pinouts - CSI is CSI, DSI is DSI, Vulkan is Vulkan, et cetera.

Some of the more complex Adafruit / Pimoroni / Seeed hats are very specifically written for Raspberry GPIO, sure, but they have the problem of keeping you on an old OS after a year or two, unless you're willing to put in the same amount of effort as porting their examples to a different GPIO layout.

There are tons of alternative single-board-computers available. The Orange Pi 5 is great for MUCH higher end performance but still under (usd)$100, and there are other options (Orange Pi 3? Banana Pi? Radxa RockPi?) that still match or beat the Raspberry Pi 4 performance for the same recommended retail price, but new stock is available for the sticker price.

Raspberry Pi OS is pretty much Debian with Broadcom drivers they haven't up-streamed yet. It runs on other SBCs, or there's Armbian, Arch for ARM, RebornOS, et cetera et cetera, all packaged for ARM uboot SBCs.

By VPU, I meant the square on the board that eats h.265 hw_enc and hw_dec and things like that, yes. I've been told it's a separate square from the GPU, by someone who is full-time waist-deep on getting Arch running on that hardware, so I take it as fact.

Oh no. The prospect of gstreamer being the only way... Oh no.

Maybe there's a zsh plugin or smth that autocompletes sane defaults? AAAAAAAAHHHHHH there surely isn't, anyone merciful enough to make one would just use ffmpeg instead...

Yeah it's the first under $100 system I've tried, (and I'm a fan of the genre) that's truly a desktop replacement in terms of being a snappy responsive desktop even with lots of browser tabs, etc.

I do know they have their own special sauce to talk to the NPU. I was discouraged from making the effort myself because their special sauce to talk to the VPU has barely any ffmpeg support, it p much only uses gstreamer, and I'm neither a masochist nor French so that's a non-starter.

The RK3588 seems like a beast for performance per dollar, I have one running desktop Linux for emulators and games, but I haven't used the NPU yet, because I haven't taken the time to figure out how to get OpenCV to talk to it.

Is Rockchip's stuff "good", as NPUs go? I'm thinking of buying another 3588 SoC for my robotics hobby - you seem like you'd know if that's a decent idea or not.

Interesting. Could you give a bit more of a concrete, specific example of "good pathfinding hurting the experience"? It's an odd sounding idea, to me.

Also, you seem to be deep in this world, I'll also ask you - are there RTS games out there where the specific terrain is crucially important for various unit types - like we've seen in the real world recently, with weather updates waiting for deep mud to dry out being the main factor in when tanks and other sorts of vehicles can be useful? My experience of RTS games is limited, but I remember maps being very flat overall, with very few types of steepness modelled.

Hmm. I read the licence.md. Does this mean if I fork the game to try my own patches, I'm forbidden from using the game's artwork in my forked version?

If so, that is a serious impediment, tbf.

Just today, I had a no-https warning from a .so site when I was trying to search for information about some linux library file.

libfooblah.so or something like that, i dare not post the actual name because of course it's gotta be something sketchy as a website.

Get a Pi sbc of some sort, install an OS you trust, run Kodi on it, and only ever use the TV to display that. Streaming services, YouTube etc, are available as Kodi addons. Though it's a bit of a hassle to do l the first log in to your YT account, these days. Never use the "smart" features of a TV, which are basically data harvesting to subsidise the cost. Never ever tell your TV the wifi password.

Works for me!

? magic mushrooms grow all over the world, and have been known in western cultures for all history.

A complete lack of focus stealing prevention, for one. Corner notifications that never go away even though I'm clearly trying to ignore them. Suddenly typing into some random new thing instead of where I want to be typing.

"All your 32-bit programs are dead now, yes including your paid-for games. Lol."

"OpenGL and Vulkan weren't invented here, we'll make the same thing, but not compatible, instead of supporting them."

Apple's file system is still shite. "file cannot be deleted because the disk is full" is a Kafka style nightmare message.

Mac users are also a significant horror when you go asking for help with any of this, they generally have gone full Stockholm syndrome and will blame the new victim rather than the captor.

Last week's David Mcwilliams podcast [1] goes into a good explanation, generally matching your reaction. David is an economist who's regularly been around all the top conferences, worked for a couple of central banks, and he is good at explaining how you can tell when the emperor has no clothes.

1 https://podcastaddict.com/episode/154571052

Like who? Inuit, who live where plants don't grow? Historical Mongolians, until cereal crops were introduced to their lands? Nomadic Masai who don't stay around for crops?

Can't think of anyone else, without a similar exceptional reason.

It would be useful if headlines said "~$10", "sub $100", "sub $1000" et cetera, instead of vague terms like "low-cost".

Lower OpenGL / GLES version number requirements, so wezterm can run on Arm64 hardware with no hassle.

There are lots of homeless in Japan, and people do see them.

Anyone living near Tokyo who has money, clothes, shoes, gas cans, batteries, shelter material, work opportunities etc they wish to pass on - please reply here or email i.am.grozzle at gmail, please. Or ask staff at Lavanderia cafe in Shinjuku ni-chome.

What volume of trade is that high "official" ruble value based on? The retail/p2p volume outside of state-run banks seems to be higher now, and at a significantly lower ruble value.

& welcome to hn, first commenter!

ah, focus stealing. and the lack of focus stealing prevention. Yes. This is why I could never settle down and marry MacOS. KDE amd tiling WMs do this right, everyone else is just rude.

It's a work in progress, users are generally confident that the remaining hardware will gain Asahi support sooner or later.

The fact that Asahi is such a popular project is a pretty strong indicator of how much room for improvement MacOS has, to put it as politely as I can. Personally, I wouldn't even consider buying a new Mac if there wasn't any good alternate native OS available.

Yes, and the stress of being uprooted. There was a large surplus of deaths in the evacuated population over the next year, without any sign of a radiogenic disease. Communities being scattered suddenly, the stress of losing homes and homeland.