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I don’t expect it either, which is why these things don’t make sense anymore, and why I actually recently passed them up for an X86 competitor. Prices of RPi’s have inflated, supply has gone down to nothing, and all the while all sorts of competition has entered the SBC scene that provides a much better value.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the RPi and I feel like a real cool nerd with bare PCBs sitting around my house, but they’re just too expensive now.

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Biggest benefit of those things is that they come with SATA ports so you can use them to build a <$100 2-bay NAS which is about half the price of popular competitors but with way more power.

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Can’t do much with 1GB. And the Pi4 isn’t part of a “product range”, it’s the previous generation product.

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Of course the pi 4 is still part of the product range. It’s still being actively manufactured and sold.

Its a 5-year old product. With 5 year old specs.

As far as memory size, that wasn’t part of your original complaint.

Yes I also didn’t specify a clock speed, storage size, network speed, etc. What I meant was a modern version of an old product with similarly modern specs.

$35 in 2012 is $47 today

And yet the Pi5 starts at $60.

You’re also missing the other half of this conversation where other SBCs have come way down in price.

Le Potato, Orange Pi, Zima products, Rockchip, not to mention all the X86 mini PCs, old office PCs, etc.

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I’m not moving the goal posts, you just ignored one of them.

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Yeah no shit. I didn’t remove anything. Just added it. The part you ignored is still there.

Go ahead and honor your promise to be “out”.

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That’s nice. Let me know when they’re $30 again.

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As per usual, the explanation is corporate shitfuckery.

Video explanation

tl;dr the company Taylor manufactures the ice cream machines to fail without any explanation or diagnosis process, then charge wildly exorbitant fees to fix them, and cut McD’s in on the profit. Some franchises found ways around this and McD’s just ordered them to stop. So the franchises just leave them broken as often as possible.

Self-hosted or personal email solutions?

I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I’m hoping to create a unique and “professional” looking email account like johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for...

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I don’t give my personal email address to literally anyone. Everyone gets an alias.

Once someone gets your personal email address and leaks it, there is no way to stop spam. You cannot delete your personal address because it is your account identity.

Firefox Relay, AnonAddy, SimpleLogin, all great services.

I have a business email address that I’m just unfortunately stuck digging through spam.

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Because Windows blows.

Saved you a click.

helenslunch,
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I didn’t say anything about backdoors…

Intel mobile chips just blow and have for several years now

helenslunch,
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No I’m just referring to the horrible inefficiency

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If I cared about Qubes, Intel would be an instant dealbreaker. Same as it was for Framework.

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How do you self-host Obsidian?

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I’ll have to look into that. It doesn’t work like Joplin where I can just connect it to the same remote backup within the app, across devices?

helenslunch,
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Debian Edition*

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Why wait? Jump now.

I highly recommend dual booting because there will be times when you get fed up with the penguin’s bullshit.

Also Linux Mint is a great recommendation, but I have to recommend the Debian edition.

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Lack of corporate cronyism

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Not a good idea to use your own domain. Use Proton Pass with domains you share with all the other users.

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AppImages suck because I can’t pin them to my dashboard, can’t set them to open at startup and can’t set them as default apps for the appropriate filetypes.

How many of you run a Linux phone (Pine64, Librem etc) as your daily driver?

I was going through Pine64’s page again after I found the latest KDE announcement. With that said, I seem to see a lot of issues with firmware on the Pine, whilst the Librem is just plain out of budget for me. Was interested in how many people here run a Linux mobile as a daily driver, and how has your experience been?...

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We can’t even get widespread adoption on workstations, what are the chances we’ll ever get them on mobile?

It’s all the same problems. There aren’t nearly enough people using it for developers to spend their time developing compatible versions of their software, much less ones with a mobile-friendly interface.

Maybe they’ll work with PWAs but those still suck.

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