You can do 1080p on the Pi4.
https://itnext.io/the-2021-onward-guide-to-install-netflix-o...
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I've personally done it in browser. It works.
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I've personally done it in browser. It works.
It will run circles around any desktop PC within the same price range.
And yes, the Raspberry Pi 4/400 is perfectly usable for general desktop computing for students. The default desktop OS is intuitive and it includes modern browsers, can watch Netflix/Disney+ DRM media, and run LibreOffice or WPS Office.
Similarly, the Pine64 Pinebook Pro is actually quite serviceable for general desktop use at < $250, but you can also buy a $999 M1 MacBook Air at Best Buy if your needs cannot be satisfied by sub $250 computers.
Crypto-bros are just the next generation of the emptiness of finance-bros pre Bitcoin -- but somehow worse. They add 0 value to open market economies with stable political systems.
Crypto allows for getting around sanctions, currency controls, and inflationary economic systems. This effectively supports incompetent or unethical regimes by either allowing privileged people to be unaffected by bad policies and disincentivizes political revolution towards more open markets and free political systems.
Hence why established democratic systems and free markets see no real value in Crypto except for speculation and illicit activities.
Check again.
Not because of an adversarial nuclear power is invading a country that has been making inroads to join NATO and the EU and other western systems.
Not because of the similarities to appeasement of hitler, or the massive influence Russia/Ukraine events have had on the US political system recently during the Trump administration and for decades in general.
Putin has stated he wants to reunite former Soviet states.
Ukraine becoming more democratic and wanting to join western systems like the EU and NATO make that impossible for Putin.
Putin cannot afford a large successful Slavic democracy to be a direct comparison to the authoritarian regime he’s built. If democracy and free markets succeed in Ukraine, no amount of Putin’s propaganda will protect him from long term instability and potential overthrow by the people that have been under Russia’s corrupt yolk for 30 years.
The only dangerous nuclear power here is Russia.
And no, it would not have been no less dangerous than a Chernobyl. This plant does not have the design flaws of Chernobyl.
It's fundamentally not a *nix environment.
I guess if all you do is web dev work and can live entirely in docker containers/VMs, but I work on hardware dev (usb, i2c, spi busses) and the closest thing to a virtual environment I get is python venvs. My Desktop OS must run on bare metal, period.
But if that's the case (web dev), then desktop app compatibility doesn't really matter anyway, beyond front-end testing in native browsers -- easily done in VMs.
I run Manjaro and FreeBSD desktops and Mac Laptops and have literally dropped Windows-based systems from compatibility with our USB instruments because of how bad the hardware support for USB/serial devices is and I just don't want to support it. 80% of our customers use Mac-based laptops anyway, and most industrial users just use industrial raspberry pis to work with out equipment.
FreeBSD is my preferred Workstation OS for my python-based development as it forces me to think multi-platform in a way Linux just doesn't. It also has some very strong *nix design philosophy behind it, making it rather enjoyable to develop for.
"You can’t power a whole grid with solar and wind, because the sun and the wind are inconstant, and currently existing batteries aren’t even cheap enough to store large quantities of electricity overnight, much less across whole seasons. "
Summarize the gist:
"Germany" and "... the U.S. must stop shutting down nuclear plants and start building them."
Which is about as much depth on an energy/policy article as you're going to get out of a substack article.
The reality is that fossil fuels are dead. You can't get financing for new well development as you need about 10-15 years of guaranteed buyer contracts in hand to de-risk the investment. Go talk to any Shell/Chevron/Exxon/etc. project manager/product manager/business dev person. Exploratory wells have been dead for 5-10+ years, let alone provable reserves.
Renewables + Batteries are killing fossil fuels for energy use because they are far cheaper than anyone thought they would be 10 years ago.
Germany didn't kill off their Nuclear power because it wasn't "green" they killed it off because a not insubstantial number of their legislature was politically funded by oligarchs wanting to sell pipeline gas to Europe. Fukushima was a nice scapegoat.
Germany's "Green Delusions" did not empower Putin. Germany shutting down clean energy in favor of Russian fossil fuels empowered Putin. Bari Weiss is trying to somehow call relying more heavily on natural gas pipelines "green" when nothing could be further from the truth.
You’re right though, it doesn’t spell out any mutual defense statements.
You can recover from casualty losses in a generation if you protect your ability to create more humans by securing wombs.
This is just reality, and reality is unfair.
It still closer to 7-8 years for the 5S of OS/security updates (just because a new OS version came out doesn't mean security updates stopped completed).
I am completely de-googling my life as I don't trust them not to break infrastructure I rely on. This is somehow worse than their mismanagement of Chat/Messaging platforms, and is indicative of a direction I just don't think I can support going forward.
FWIF iCloud+ custom e-mail is pretty good, shared inbox for all your domains (can do server-side rules on iCloud.com to move to address specific subfolders though), and reasonably simple webmail platform + imap access. For $0.99/m for 50gb of "shared" storage quota with up to 5 domains x 3 custom address x 6 family members isn't bad.
It is the most absolute utilitarian solution to custom domain hosting. Zoho and Cloudflare have more feature parity, but iCloud.com is pretty dang close to my needs.
Yeah, this isn't even most engineers I know, but its a legitimate argument. I used to run Cyano/AOSP builds on my LG/Droid phones.
> One other good reason is the very large catalogue of open source apps on Android. There's a lot of good quality free apps that Apple's fees, terms and the necessity of Macs to develop scare away.
I really, really don't think even 0.001% of users care about this. The engineers I know with Android all tend to be either neutral-to-anti-Linux/FOSS, they are "Windows" engineers. All the Linux/FOSS guys use Mac laptops + Linux Desktops/Workstations and iOS devices.
>Longevity kinda depends on your threat model. Of course Android devices will stop getting security updates sooner as we all know, but one extra thing to think about is that Apple does not backport new features and APIs, while Google generally does. This means that most apps on iOS are -strongly- encouraged to move their minimum supported iOS version up often. All this to say that an iPhone that doesn't get any more OS updates will stop getting app updates very quickly, while an Android Marshmallow phone still supports the majority of apps. It's a tradeoff between OS updates vs app updates, the majority of people would care more for the latter
I really don't think this tradeoff exists. The iPhone 5S got 9 years of OS and security updates. None of my apps broke during that period, and I still use that phone in WiFi mode as a remote for home automation/Roku/etc. and two-factor RSA apps/tools.
It's really insane when you consider just how long iOS devices are supported:
https://img.gadgethacks.com/img/original/84/99/6367296924559...
> (Though engineers would likely never keep a phone for that long, but the merit stands)
Yeah, most of my engineer friends who stayed android liked the upgrade cycle so the OS-update/support cycle didn't matter. Problem is that things have been very, very stale for Android flagships the last 4-5 years in comparisons to iOS devices.
I just don't think the value proposition is there anymore for Android. It's basically the Anti-Apple/Niche Poweruser/Low-end phone platform of choice.
I was close to dropping Apple entirely over on-device CSAM scanning (I don't mind iCloud server scanning) and looking at a Pixel/Calyx/Graphene alternatives for privacy, and really found myself not liking my options. You give up a lot of battery life, privacy functionality, and cross-device integration moving away from iOS.
There's 2 main Android users in my circles:
Engineers under 50 and people over 50 that hate or dislike Apple.
Engineers that have to use Solidworks/CAD workflows that don't exist on Mac (and wish they could).
I use iMessage + Signal for secure messaging between groups, which resolves the "green bubble" issue and preserves security. I don't get any other arguments re: group chat with Android users.
I also don't get buying Android devices at this point given that OS updates/device longevity is shorter, and iOS has basically hit feature parity with Android.
I originally only switched when no one would make a Droid Razr M-sized phone but Apple anymore (iPhone SE), and found the whole Mac/iPhone/iMessage/AirDrop/etc. ecosystem just more pleasant to deal with and considerably more reliable, consistent, and most importantly less expensive.
It's basically a way around currency controls/trade/monetary restrictions in countries like Iran, Zimbabwe, Russia, China, and other problematic or failed states.
You can literally convert your local currency into energy to run your mining rig and create a fungible pseudo-currency that can be transferred to family/friends elsewhere and directly into dollars.
So there is always going to be a legitimate use for Crypto until it is banned. Even if its stupid speculative environment-destroying crypto-bro idiocy, there is a constant demand for it in these developing/failed state/evil regime states.
Just because the Iranian Rial is 0.000024 dollars on google, doesn't mean Iranians can actually get anywhere near that exchange rate in reality due to state controls. So while 1 Dollar = 42250.00 Rials right now, I know people who can't convert to dollars for less than 125,000 Rials, and typically 200,000 or more.
And this is literally Neil Young expressing his first amendment rights in our capitalist market system based on voluntary exchange.
Go read Wealth of Nations, the Constitution, the treaty of Westphalia, the Magna Carta, some Hayek, some Friedman, and an intro to civics and economics lot.
You have absolutely no idea how our system of laws, economy, or government works.
Let's see if RCS actually works? Telecoms and Google saying this new messaging standard will be better is not exactly an endorsement I would trust.
Do you understand that even young people are 100 times more likely to suffer from CoViD-19 induced myocarditis than from the vaccine?
Here’s a Nature article explaining the risks of it:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-021-00662-w
Stop reading social media and antivax propaganda before you get someone killed with your ignorance.
It makes no sense to not get a free vaccine that is now the safest most tested medication in human history that can prevent the spread and continued mutation of the most deadly pandemic virus in 100 years.
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To reiterate. You do not seem to understand your own sources you provide. You have twisted every article you link to provide justification of not getting vaccines when they literally all state the risks from the vaccines are lower than the risks from CoVID-19, that while the vaccines do not provide absolute herd immunity they do slow the spread and reduce the risk of hospitalization and death.
Your argument about myocarditis is inane given that young men are 100 times more likely to suffer it if they get CoViD-19.
Your argument that the vaccine isn’t preventative is nonsense as it clearly prevents death and hospitalization over non-vaccination across all age groups.
Your interpretation of this paper doesn’t understand that statistical analysis is highly flawed in comparing other treatments for continuous exposure disease to the singular event exposure is absurd on its face.
Please, get off Facebook, Reddit, or whatever other “mom” groups you’re in and go talk to an actual Immunologist and virus/vaccine researcher to help you better understand these things you’re so passionately ignorant about.
Being vaccinated results in those outcomes. Not your lockdowns.
Your lockdowns only resulted in 50% less deaths than our mismanagement.
You're right, we shouldn't be inconvenienced by a death cult of anti-science morons.
You don't have to be because your country made better decisions than mine.
And, well because all of the actual data keeps proving that the unvaccinated are at orders of magnitude higher risk than vaccinated across all age groups.
https://azdhs.gov/covid19/documents/data/rates-of-cov-19-by-...
It's embarrassingly flawed analysis.
You're 13x less likely to land in the hospital.
You're 45x less likely to die.
It's gone from being 10-20x more deadly than the flu to half as deadly with the vaccine. And Omicron hasn't peaked yet in the U.S., these numbers are likely conservative.
Last I checked you had 1/14th the population and 1/30th the deaths we had. You got the vaccine later than we did, hit 93% vaccination rate while we're STILL below 65%.
Australia took things way more seriously than we did, maybe a bit "too conservatively" for your taste, but the alternative I live in is that 2 aunt's funerals were over zoom (pre vaccine), and my I'm waiting for my 63 yr old uncle (anti-vax) who had a heart attack 3 years ago, is obese, been a lifelong smoker, and just got CoViD to recover.
"Second, while risk over time is important, people are primarily concerned about the risk of getting infected with SARS- CoV-2 right now, not, for example, over the last 3 months."
The authors just kinda brush this aside. Their analyses are focused on singular events such as social gatherings, going to work, transportation, etc. Incase I'm not getting my point across, this is REALLY, REALLY STUPID, and I'd be embarrassed to publish this kind of analysis..
They also focus solely on the psychological harm of exclusion of unvaccinated people (very real consequences of serious mental and economic impacts to these people). Not actual harm of adverse reactions to the vaccines (effectively 0 actual harm), but make comparisons to drugs with considerably more side effects.
Not considering cumulative effects of even a single week on transmissibility radically skews their analysis. We don't do this in health and safety when death is on the line for a reason...
To put this another way, their analysis compares statins, a drug used to combat a constant exposure to heart-attack and stroke risk (from cholesterol), to a 1-8 hour singular event of exposure of unvaccinated people who may or may not have CoViD.
No Doctor I know would prescribe statins if you only had risk of heart-attack or stroke for a 1-8 hour event on a single day.
I like it.