Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social), page 5

@thomasfuchs Rofl, reminds me of stuff like this:

@augieray "If you get chronically ill, the CDC won't pay your bills, protect your job, or aid you in any way. You face the consequences, not the CDC. Make better decisions, please."
I have never heard anyone say this better. Thank you. Those words cannot be stated enough. The same goes for all the bosses that are going to use this to force people to go into work sick and spreading COVID-19 (and other things.) We are fast reaching a point things are completely non-sustainable.

@freemo @luckytran Appeal to authority: I am an expert.
Reverse appeal to authority: you are not.

Thus the combination: I'm the expert and you are not, so you're wrong and I'm not even going to discuss it. (Which accomplishes the "just assume I'm right" part.)

@freemo @luckytran Let's put aside the appeal to authority/reverse/etc stuff please. The discussion at hand is whether it is valid as a metric for getting an overall view of current trends in new infections. Yes it is less accurate than proper tracking. I fully agree. (Though even proper tracking has its own hurdles.) There are things where this is an issue, but an overall view as we are doing here looks roughly the same whether viral loads or tracking.

@freemo @luckytran No I do not. How is it specifically "misleading"?

Yes it's less accurate. Not so much so as to mislead. It still gives a good overall view of trends among other things.

@freemo @luckytran How is it horribly misleading?

Certainly it is less accurate. Obviously actually tracking infections is the only sensible way to track the progression of the pandemic. But since it "looks bad" and was hard to fight the local governments (like Florida) who want to hide the truth, the government has basically abandoned everyone on this, so this is the most accurate metric. It's not perfect, but should be still pretty accurate overall. Any reason you disagree?

@Strandjunker It is so weird just how hard it is for anyone to just straight up say it. And let's be clear, he's now encouraging domestic terrorism and even trying to start a civil war in hopes of being installed as a dictator and yet again far too few are willing to actually state it.

@nixCraft Funny how it never occurs to them just to sell some of it.

@feditips Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding. I am indeed following.

@feditips This post showed up on my timeline though. 😁

Warning to everyone, Microsoft is apparently planning to backport "CoPilot" to Windows 10, despite the fact its support ends in less than two years. Up until now they've tried to make "features" (like DirectX versions) exclusive to try to force people to upgrade whether they want to or not. In other words, they see big money in this. That almost certainly comes at the expense of users with phoning home with info, targeted ads/sales, etc.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/microsoft-is-revisiting-windows-10-by-backporting-the-copilot-ai-assistant/

#privacy #microsoft #windows

@feditips Anything "more conventional" that includes the part explaining why they need to switch and what makes the Fediverse so different (and better) than those networks they're staying tied to? Language aside, Saunders explained those things really well.

@georgetakei Imagine being so completely over-the-top obsessed with being far right extremist that you actually honestly believe a long running cartoon series deciding not to continue to depict a child being strangled is just "being woke" or "liberal snowflake" or whatever.

At this point these people need to see a psychiatrist.

@darth @freemo Yeah, these things do sound like they're way beyond what an Arduino-like device like the RP2040 would be good for. I could see it maybe slightly adapting networking say from one type to another, but not handling the whole process.

I still think it's very strange to see that temperature for an idle on a RPi ZeroW though. Even in a case running other equipment. Unless the case itself is reaching ~60C, which would be bad... I still think either a faulty sensor or faulty hardware

@freemo @darth It really depends on what is needed, but I think they said it was acting as a networking interface or something which sounds to me complex enough it may fall under the SBC requirement of things. Regardless, I don't really think this is the answer. As I said, the RPi ZeroW should not be idling that hot even in an enclosure. One way or the other I think something is up and solving that aspect may be more important. (You don't want even old PC hardware running > 60C minimum!)

@freemo @darth In general I would say the two should not be considered interchangeable.

Actually, I always found it really weird that they made the RP2040 as it's not at all in line with the rest of their products.

@freemo @darth Maybe, but there is a world of difference between a simplistic Arduino-style device and a single board computer. The SBC is essentially a whole (albeit weak) computer, whereas the Arduino is a device with much more simplistic capabilities. You can't even use the same code. It depends on what it's doing. Handling a keyboard is a great task for an Arduino-like device and bad for a SBC, and conversely running LAN firewall/NAT is great for a SBC and not viable for an Arduino.

@freemo @darth RP2040 is more like an Arduino than what a normal Raspberry Pi is. It is a lot more limited in performance and functionality.

@darth @freemo Something is up with that. They shouldn't run that hot at idle even as it is, but especially not refusing to go lower. One thing I'm wondering here: is it possible the temperature sensor itself is simply inaccurate? Have you touched the SoC? At 60+C it should very definitively feel hot to the touch. (Well, ideally you'd want to use an infrared thermometer, but assuming you don't have one, touch should be enough to tell if it's *THAT* hot.)

Have you added a heatsink?

@Polychrome What is actually going on here? It looks initially to be Windows 9x?

I guess the Xbox being basically just a PC other than the lack of standard BIOS and such, I can certainly see it being able to run such things, but I never heard of anyone putting Linux or Windows 9x on one for some reason. Then again, I mostly used mine with XBMC (eg Kodi today) and hardly even played games on it, lol.