Yeah the rapid pace of technological innovation these days is really astounding at times.

I broke down and googled it and it’s a reusable menstrual cup, so I think my guess was the closest.

Depends on how far you throw it.

Like a Frisbee?

Probably not much of a difference. These mini PCs can run at single digit wattage too and you won’t be buying new SD cards every 6 months.

The market is about to be flooded with them with Windows 10 going EoL in October.

I bet you could instead use an ESP32 for GPIO and just connect it remotely to whatever Pi alternative you use (if needed at all). Turning some switches on and off while monitoring input values doesn’t sound very computationally intensive.

I think this really depends on the model they’re eyeballing because the Pi5 is frankly ridiculous for the price and has absurd power requirements (5V5A USB?). I wouldn’t recommend one of these unless you have a specific need like a certain hat or the GPIO pins. You can get a Dell micro Optiplex for less money and have a full fledged i5 or i7 processor with similar power usage.

Plus the RPi Foundation exposed themselves as the greedy bastards they are during COVID which is yet another reason to turn your back on them.

For something like a Pi Zero, maybe go for it, but there are similar devices out there from other companies too.

What do you classify as independent?

You march your butt down to Lowes to get those big black totes so you can pile your collected items into them and stow them in a neat stack in the garage so that you have space for more collectibles. That’s what you do with yourself. Don’t forget the label maker!

Comcast has done some wizardry to finally allow decent upload speeds as of late. For years I’ve had 900Mbps down and 15Mbps up but with whatever upgrade they’ve done, I’m now at 900/200 which is decent enough. I honestly don’t even need all this download bandwidth and would be happy with 500/500 but most people aren’t running media servers and hundreds of torrents so they don’t dedicate much to upload bandwidth.

Technology has continued to progress but I think many cable providers are capping at around 100 mbps. I could be wrong.

I think most are offering as high as 1-2Gbps (asymmetrical) with cable. That’s what Comcast is offering in our area. With 100Mbps CenturyLink DSL being the only alternative.

Yeah it’s Sync and in my googling I discovered that it has been abandoned by the developer (unfortunate since I’ve been using it for around 2 years now). I installed Voyager and it is working fine now, though it will take some getting used to.

It was set to “browser default” and when I switched it to English I was able to see the checklist and all the common languages are checked.

I am now viewing from a web browser and everything seems fine but I still can’t see anything in Sync. I may need to log out and back in again, but at this point it seems like it’s no longer an issue with sh.itjust.works.

Thanks!

Edit: it must be some weird bug with Sync as no matter what I do it isn’t displaying comments on most posts. While googling I discovered that Sync is dead which is unfortunate as I’ve been using it for like two years now. I downloaded Voyager and all seems to be fine now.

Yes, this very post of mine 😆

I only have one blocked user and no blocked instances. I’m going to check the language settings like others mentioned.