silveira

Blow a dandelion seed head and make a wish, but it’s a device blowing.

Right now, I think the sweet spot is getting a Raspberry Pi 400 for USD$50 ( Microcenter).

A Pi400 is a very capable 4GB ram Linux machine, working out of the box. I have a few, each doing a different job. I just ssh to them with a beefier machine plugged on LLMs tools, and it's really fun and exciting.

Then Mini pcs, you can get a good deal here and there, for a more capable machine with a little bit more flexibility.

ESP32s are also awesome and I have been playing with them but not as a replacement of these light linux servers.

I absolutely loved the help docs that came in Borland products. To this day they are my gold standard of documentation and nothing has ever meet them. I learned so much simply navigating their docs. The best part was that they had actual examples that you could see it working, copy/paste modify. To an extent, a taste of open source.

The website at least. Just look for the word "not". LLMs love writing things like "it's not ice cream, is pasta", "you get a full dog, not a cat".

They are here right now, writing comments, upvoting and downvoting.

What about Elegoo Centauri Carbon? I've had my eye on this for some time.

I bought one yesterday from AliExpress. I hope I'm able to install new firmwares on it.

And sometimes 3 can be "every other CEO is doing it, let's do it too. At least we already have the narrative.".

At least they had a decency of avoiding the ambiguity of doing this during April 1st.

Thanks, I had deleted the app from all my devices but not deleted the account. I have deleted my account now too.

I really like this setup:

iPad + Korg microKEY-37 + KORG Gadget 3 + all a bunch of KORG apps

No subscriptions. Keyboard is wireless but no noticeable latency. In my workflow I pretty much never need more keys but if I do I just use a MIDI adapter and plug a larger keyboard.

KORG apps go on 50% sale several times every year.

iPad Pro (4th generation) 2020 here. Life was good then updated OS with liquid glass. Big mistake.

I still remember using Palm OS for the first time and having my little mind blown away because there was no save buttons (at least in the version and apps I was using). You edited a document and that's it, it was saved. Like writing on paper.

Nowadays a lot of applications behave like this but back then it was a very different from everything I had ever used.

I have been playing 0ad, single player, medium/hard difficulty, round-robing all maps, for years now. Great game. I have to try mods one of these days.