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The concept of a cheap new computer like an RPi for poor families is a 1st world solution that doesn't understand markets. Used computers are way more popular in countries where the price of new computers are out of reach.

It's a supply chain problem, n

Siri AI 1 month ago

Apple has built the strongest ecosystem of AI-capable consumer products in the industry. I suspect they deliberately chose not to compete in the AI data center race. Entering that arena would have cannibalized sales of their own high-margin devices, while further straining their already tight supply chain for memory and M-series processors.

Apple would never willingly pay Nvidia for GPUs anyway.

Why absorb supply chain pricing pressures and volatility when you can pass those costs directly to the consumer?

Apple WWDC 2026 1 month ago

While I may hold an unpopular opinion, I really enjoy using liquid glass. It really makes an information-rich screen seem less cluttered.

100% this. There's nothing wrong with focusing on first principles and this is a rediscovery in that matter.

It's just an acknowledgement that the Miura pattern works and this kid kept his focus. To be perfectly honest, he just took something that was already done before (the fold) and applied it. Scientists do this all the time and win prizes--like cellophane tape to create graphene.

I see this posted everywhere this week. Is it really that good? I understand this runs on any hardware (not limited to Mac Minis) as long as you have an API key to an LLM (Preferably to Claude). People online make bold promises that it will change your life...

It sounds interesting to me, I might install it on a cheap Mini PC with Ubuntu. This can't come at any worst time as storage and RAM has gotten astronomical. I feel bad for people who are just starting to build their first rig and an alt rig for this.

+1 to simple machines.

As an analogy and anecdote, I've learned a lot about cars through RC racing as a teen. Building differentials, CVDs and Universal Joints, hydraulic shocks towers, and tuning radios really gave me the baseline to know and fix cars as an adult.

I still lack a very basic understanding of computers which has somewhat neutered what I'm capable of doing today. I'm now sorta getting back into learning these things but it's kinda hard when it is limited to weekends and holidays. I hope RPI keeps going with their vision as a publicly traded company. Kids need to learn these things.

Thanks for this writeup, I'm going to try myself as I have a few Raspberry Pi Picos laying around myself. I'm going to try to create a Google Colab Notebook for my virtual environment instead.

Steam Machine 8 months ago

Steam is starting to become the 'Apple Computer Inc.' everyone wants.

Privacy issues aside, I think having a camera to monitor stools and urine color is an excellent way to gauge health. I hope the folks at Kohler can make this happen.

Glad that you're taking the first step toward resiliency. At times, big outages like these are necessary to give a good reason why the company should Multicloud. When things are working without problems, no one cares to listen to the squeaky wheel.