I don’t feel this push for locking us out of control over our own systems under the cover of “protecting the children with age verification” is anything more than a continued effort to secure a DRM-based hardware system for the MSFT OS and media companies. This smells just like their pushes in the past to steal control over hardware through legal channels. It’s the same war we’ve been fighting for 30 years now.

Read up on the Clipper Chip from the 90’s. What’s old is new again.

I’m quite familiar with that one.

The worst one was the pre Raspberry Pi 3 boards. The early ones used an on board Ethernet chip set that was slaved directly to the USB controller. It was USB 2.0 so it could negotiate 100, but really run much less than that.

Then, if you put in a keyboard, mouse, and a USB thumb drive the USB host would multiplex over them and your bandwidth for data transfer would drop precipitously.

I was so happy when they moved to a real Ethernet chip instead of a USB adapter. The new limitation became the microSD… Of course they also introduced the grounding reset issue on the USB port, but just don’t plus or unplug anything and it’d be fine.

What if they’re external drives with their own power supplies? I’ve done things nearly this convoluted, but used self powered devices.

I know a degraded binary search tree when I see one. Stop inserting presorted data you yabbos! Otherwise, you’ll need to pull out a Red-Black tree and nobody’s got time for those kinds of rotations.

When we had flagpoles we had a pile of flags to fly. I’d get most of them on AliExpress for cheap.

Universities, states, cities, vikings, pirates, scifi, pride, peace, extinction rebellion, etc. I love flying something for larks more than anything else. Fly what you feel, it’s your flagpole.

Vertical spinning wheels to pick the hours suck donkey balls. WTF is up with those? You want to set it to 9 pm, so we get to spin the hour wheel up and down until we hit 9, then it always defaults to the current minute, so you get to spin it up and up and up and up until you get to 00 minutes, overshoot to 05, and then dial it back down.

There’s WAY better solutions for this available. Why use the ones invented 25 years ago?

I just pulled out a spare laptop to try some new distros to help advise someone about their options. I installed a few and gauged how easy/simple it would be for each one in regards to their needs.

It wasn’t distro hopping in that I wasn’t really using them beyond testing, but it was checking out options, settings, and tools. In the end, they’ll have to decide on what works best for them.

How can you even fit it into a single chunk? You’ve got to set the chunk size big enough to have the room for the whole Redstone network. I made a spot with some simple logic gates (a flip flop and an xor gate for controls) and it took up a lot of volume for even something that simple.

Even just an ALU is going to be physically massive.

Brilliant.

I’d put it up there with the CPU emulator done in LaTeX.

I don’t know every detail of your use cases, but my offline go to is xournal++ (xournalpp).

I use it for many of those actions. We moved to Germany and having a GUI pdf editor for signing, highlighting, redacting, pulling pages, etc has been invaluable.

My wife also uses it for her class lectures. She does math, so she uses a tablet to write on her slides (pdfs) live in class to talk through the material. Then, she saves the lecture PDF to give to students with the notes.

Given that there’s no proof he exists and (if you’re a Bible person) he claimed he’d be back before the original followers in 0 CE would die, he’s well behind on his own schedule. He’s about as fast as California High Speed Rail or any small construction project in Germany.

Once Cali HSR is finished, your “Lord” would consider taking it to SF for some R&R.

Highlight->Middle paste has been my friend for decades now. Using it from SunOS in the 90-s to now has been a great feature. It’s the quickest way to copy and paste while I’m working fast with text or data entry.

I love having both clipboards be functional. The latest rounds of tools that have stopped being as compatible with it has been no end of problems in my workflow. I’ll copy with the keyboard, highlight some text and then paste both clipboards somewhere else.

No, using the keyboard here isn’t as fast, don’t bother making that argument, especially since ctrl-c means different things in different places on Unix style systems. Left hand stays home row while the right is forced to leave for the mouse since it’s a GUI.

I’ve had to deal with many tools that don’t respect keyboard cut/paste as well. Add in that some tools like putty or git bash on windows have ctrl-ins for paste?

Panning in CAD/design is usually click and hold middle or even a two button system (freecad), so trying to take a middle click for that isn’t buying uniformity.

The copy/paste world is already fractured enough. Keep the highlight/middle click working so we can go fast. I might be a dinosaur, but I’m a fast dinosaur.

What? No way. I despise their captive scrolling stuff. Every time I get forced onto a windows system I forget that middle mouse is a weird scrolling mode and end up wandering randomly up and down pages until I realize what happened.

The biggest limitation on the older models is RAM. There’s other issues with network contention (the Ethernet is actually a USB device on the board), raw CPU (especially gen 1 boards), but really it’s all about the RAM.

I use these kinds of boards for more hardware/embedded kinds of situations. No GUI Linux machines will easily run in 200-400MB of RAM before you start spinning up additional services or tools.

If you’re really RAM blocked you can use a more stripped down Linux install or even hop to BSD and run real lean on resources for the OS. All of these options can still run most network services or simple build/dev kinds of support systems. They could be message queue servers, run GPIO-driven hardware systems, be sensor platforms, run DNS/DHCP/PiHole kinds of systems, be a speaker driver endpoint for a larger system, bong a clock sound every hour, or whatever. That’s just what I could come up with while typing on the fly. If you start adding hardware to the IO ports it just goes nuts what even the older boards are capable of.

Cocktails. Just need some bottles.

I agree with jay: unless you’re already an EU citizen, you’ll need to look at the visas and immigration rules for each of the countries more than just which languages to focus on.

I don’t know a lot about their immigration rules or LGBTQ+ situations. I moved to Germany because of the work visa options I had at the time.

I’ve brought up dating and going out to my kids because finding a partner in life really does help people be happier in the long run.

What we’ve never done is to say anyone should be married or have children. That’s 100% their choice. I’ve raised kids, I don’t need grandkids running around on my behalf. Kids are energy suckers and expensive. I love them, and am well aware of how much they cost me. No one should have that forced upon them. You do you.

Huge hugs from a dad who just wants you to be happy in your own way.

Berlin is such a melting pot. “Whatever, just wash your hands and recycle that trash properly.”

Mülltrennung (waste separation) is a big deal in Germany.

Actually, I haven’t tried it yet. It’s on the list for a visit, though.

Captured is for people at war. Kidnapped is the right term for what happened here.