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Uncle Tacitus, that you?

Slurp loud and true, my brethren, and I hope you have a great day.

I tried poutine at a Canada-themed popup on a nice afternoon in Manchester once. It cost £9.95 and was utter shit.

I tried poutine from a greasy street vendor at 2:35am on a piss-wet-through night in Montreal once. It cost $5 and was manna.

YMMV.

Brain fart. I put "Feddy" instead of Lemmy.

Totes. You can actually do that with Mastodon accounts. It'd be really nice if you could do it with Lemmy accounts - and communities.

Let's imagine you sign up for email service with GMail. You're happy for a while, but then Google announces that they'll be charging per email, or blocking emails sent to France, or displaying all your emails on a ticker in Times Square. You can just up sticks and move to another provider, because while Google owns GMail but they don't own e-mail in general.

Anyone can set up an email server and they don't need to ask Google's permission to do so and even with a home-spun email server you can send and receive message between [email protected] and [email protected] no issue. It probably never occurred to you that email between domains would ever be a problem.

This is because email - like Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube, BitTorrent and Matrix - is federated: no-one owns the network, because there is literally no network to own, it's just lots of servers that work on established standards. As long as your server, or the server you use, works to the established standards, it'll keep on working.

Oh, nice. Bookmarked.

Off the top of my head, the GPIO pins are excellent for integrating with electronic projects. The tiny size if you really can't justify the size of a USFF machine (paperback book vs pack of cards). For really light workloads a Pi might use less power.

I never really thought of old laptops, to be honest, that's an interesting take. But with regards to cost, a RasPi 4B with 4GB RAM costs £50 in the UK. Factor in the cost of an SD card, power supply and basic case and it's easy to see that pushing £100. Meanwhile £80 will get you a more powerful USFF (this was the first result on EBay UK: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255874880392 ) which will be a better server, emulation machines, media centre, or general-purpose desktop PC than a Pi.

Sure, I agree. My point is that instead of focusing on the Raspberry Pi specifically, I wish we highlighted that these things could be done better on general-purpose computers - maybe even general-purpose computers stuffed in a cupboard and forgotten about - rather than one specific device (which may not be a good fit) from one specific manufacturer (even one as laudable as the RPF).

I think the hivemind has already spoken, but damn, I wish it was Lemons.

IMHO, part of the problem is the people buying RasPis don't need them. Look at the number of articles with titles like "Host Your Own Web Server On A Raspberry Pi" or "Automate Your Home With a Raspberry Pi". I love the Raspberry Pi, but I think that most of the people who buy them are just using them as Linux boxes and they'd be much better off buying a second-hand USFF PC instead.