www.tomshardware.com Raspberry Pis Found in Abandoned Spin Scooters in Seattle
Where was this knowledge when the Pi supply was low?
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My father wants to sell his deep sea fishing boat, no more fish to catch. He is so heavily restricted on what he can catch there is no point going out anymore. Meanwhile when he goes out into international waters and fishes based on these rules he has to dodge all the international fishing trawlers that scrap the ocean clean. Very frustrating.
For what it's worth I hope he sells his boat. It's stupid and wasteful to burn 200 gallons of gas to perhaps catch one shark. It's painfully wasteful.
Make a massive terrarium
I do this except the offline copies are raspberry pis, they grab an update then turn their network card off and go black for about a month. Randomly they turn on the network card, pull a fresh copy and go black again. Safe from randomware and automatic.
Coolest thing I've read all month. I always knew plants and fungus could live in symbiosis but it didn't occur it could be a selectively bred attribute to boost crop yields. Science is awsome.
Are those old ISA sound blasters worth much? I think I have a few in the basement...
I have a trailer (workshop) with solar power, batteries, a raspberry pi controlling everything and a cellular hot spot. It pumps all the solar, battery information and light controls over MQTT and home assistant over cellular. So yes its possible, what do you want to do?
This person works in the battery industry. Hello fellow battery expert!
I overclocked my socket A athlon to the moon and loved every minute of its partial instability. Still have that CPU in the attic.
I'm not a doctor and a dude, just speaking from personal experiences and shared stories, but are you on birth control? Birth control pills made my wife emotionally unstable when she was PMSing and finally she had enough and stopped taking them. It was a night and day difference and she hasn't taken them since. Just food for thought.
Needs more light and slight air movement to build strength. I grew those for awhile and they get a ting of red when theyre kissed with though light. Since those are mostly green and leggy I presume they're light deprived and getting too tall seeking light.
His dapper suit jacket is dangling awfully close to that belt drive...that would be a bad day.
This is an outrageous recommendation but it is a pretty complete filter to find the educated, 55+ crowd!
Power is a measurement of the velocity and volume of water flowing through a pipe at a given instant*
I'm so sorry, I am officially 'that guy', taking a simple analogy and making it annoying...
My 16 year old Samsung TV would like to argue otherwise! It's a beast and 1080p is plenty good for me! But my Samsung kitchen? Holy crap it's all so terrible...
This comment hits hard. There are a lot of ignorant people in my life that spout idiotic stuff and I brush it off, I disengage. I could take the time to listen, converse and correct but I don't. I disengage, I brush it off as just "Oh boy, there goes crazy Joe rambling again! But generally he's a good guy so I'll tolerate it". I need to start taking the time to push back and correct people I care about so they understand people are judging them when stupid things are said. Thank you!
Weird timing. I'm moving next week into a new home and the previous owner left this monitor with the computer in the attic. It was going to be a winter project to get it all operating, and I'm an electrical engineer with plenty of equipment. Thanks for the video, now I have a north star!
Dude looks in his 60s but likely those are his kids and he had a rough first 40 years...
I rent two apartments in a state where all of that is not possible. Evictions take months and if repairs are not made quickly the tenant is legally entitled to withhold rent. But while on the topic I am most certainly on the hook for inflationary swings in:
- any and all repairs
- gas and electric
- insurance
- property taxes
- landscaping and snow removal
There is no free lunch, no one side is correct. Stop pretending this topic is black and white. There are some good landlords, many bad. Same goes for tenants.
Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home!
So I'm cleaning out a house and found a brand new Gateway2k Pentium 4 computer. Someone opened the boxes but never took the computer out, its all still in the plastic and I don't want to ruin the unboxing for someone that is into this. The computer is free to a good home in the Boston metro area to make your retro gaming dreams come true! Shoot me a message, first come, first served.
P4 Computer - Gateway 2000 model 510 - part number 2800434
17" TFT Monitor - Gateway FPD1730
Speakers - Boston Acoustics BA745
Edit: Found a taker, hopefully it goes to it's forever home on Saturday!
Edit edit: its gone!
150 Seedlings - into the cold frame
Started the peppers in March and tomatoes in April. They were getting too big for my grow light so I evicted them outside. Plenty warm in the cold frame in Massachusetts.
Android Microphone Snooping
So I had a verbal conversation with a coworker yesterday and now I'm getting fed very specific ads. No possible way it's accidental. I have most of the microphone access to apps limited, I have Google assistant turned off and no VPA setup in my home. I use a Oneplus 9 pro, does anyone have recommendations on how to further root cause this or just par for the course for using any standard android OS? Have other folks had similar experience after locking down their stock phones?
Pi Powered Cuckoo Clock
For her birthday my daughter received a cuckoo clock. It had very limited programming for 'quiet hours' so I fiddled with it and ended up breaking it. I didn't want to disappoint her so I gutted it and proceeded to install a Pi Zero W and a headphone amplifier I had built. She now has a fully programmable, USB powered, linux based cuckoo clock where I can program it to whatever suites our needs and it syncs it's time with NTP severs. I even connected her night light to it which turns on at night and off to let her know when its time to get out of bed. This combination also allows us to have dance parties with flashing lights, a dancing bird and fun songs coming out of her cuckoo clock. It's ridiculous and eccentric but it makes us happy!
Build
- The Pi Zero's dont come with a sound output so [I built an audio output filter](https://learn.adafruit.com/
Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters
Title says most of it. Spin electric scooters exited the Seattle market and abandoned their scooters all over the city and apparently they have a pi 4 in them!
Activate Turbo Mode
Does anyone else have a Turbo Button™ on their router? My wifi router is in essentially attic space with no AC so it gets hot and acts up with connectivity issues. My turbo mode solves the problem.
Driving is more expensive than you think
news.harvard.edu Massachusetts' car economy costs $64 billion, study finds
Harvard study says Massachusetts car economy costs $64 billion, and more than half of that comes from public.
"The paper, which the students wrote as part of an applied lab course, found that costs are diffused across a number of areas and involve things people don’t often consider. Beyond those for individual drivers, road maintenance, snow removal, and policing, there are less-obvious ones, such as those associated with added pollution, value of land set aside for parking lots, lost productivity from sitting in traffic, and various costs associated with injuries and deaths on the road.
Using publicly available data, the authors put the annual public tab at $35.7 billion, which amounts to about $14,000 for every household in the state. Those that do own vehicles pony up an additional $12,000 on average in direct costs."
Coffee Plant Seedlings - Kauaʻi Coffee Company, Hawaii (2016)
Found some tiny coffee plants while in Hawaii and thought they looked amusingly fake so I grabbed a picture.
Ghost Pi - an unconventional backup solution
I call this nonsense host ‘Ghost’, for me it’s similar to a tape backup solution. Fairly simple concept, it’s an old Pi1 + external mechanical drive that sits dormant with its ethernet off. Once a month, at a random time and random date it enables the ethernet, spins up the drive and pulls data from the main server to update its drive then goes black until next month. The only way to check or maintain the pi is a push button that toggles the ethernet interface. I slapped it together with some scrap wood, spare hardware and screwed it to a 2x4 in a dark corner of my basement. It’s my 5th string backup, the ultimate insurance policy because I’m mental.