RL_Quine (u/RL_Quine)

RL_Quine commented on Orange Pi 5: 8-core CPU 2.4GHz, up to 32GB DDR4 orangepi.org/html/hardWar... · Posted by u/nateb2022

woodruffw · 3 years ago

That's good to know, thanks. I've had pretty good luck over the years with ordinary RPis (I keep a couple around for random projects); the most serious problem I ever have with them is the long-standing one around slow SD card corruption.

RL_Quine · 3 years ago

The RPI is sort of the exception; I have a couple of them doing odd tasks around the house like displaying security cameras, but that's an outlier due to the massive amount of support it gets.

In boxes in the basement are all sorts of SBCs, from the original A10 Cubieboard from 2012, to many Hardkenel boards, to all sorts of bizarre barely operational SBCs from various sources. They all had the same issue of being basically unsupported unless you made it your life goal to dig through obscure datasheets and compile kernel patches from some forum post you found.

A good holistic replacement for the RPI is the APU2, a x86 board of similar cost that has a bunch more peripherals, real support for booting from SATA, ECC memory, and that sort of thing. Absolutely no video support, but I have years of uptime on the things with no issue.

RL_Quine commented on Orange Pi 5: 8-core CPU 2.4GHz, up to 32GB DDR4 orangepi.org/html/hardWar... · Posted by u/nateb2022

woodruffw · 3 years ago

Can someone speak to their experience with these Raspberry Pi-style SBCs? I'm curious, in particular, if their performance actually aligns with their on-paper specs and how reliable they are.

RL_Quine · 3 years ago

They usually perform well, but get put in a drawer and forgotten about because the software compatibility is generally atrocious. Peripherals advertised generally never work, but you know, might in a future kernel. I've been burned enough that I've sworn to never buy a SBC no matter the specifications.

RL_Quine commented on Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew github.com/teaxyz/cli... · Posted by u/thenipper

la64710 · 3 years ago

Where is this mentioned? I was getting all excited reading the README file of tea until I saw this comment. Thank you!

RL_Quine · 3 years ago

Quote is directly from https://tea.xyz/tea.white-paper.pdf

RL_Quine commented on Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew github.com/teaxyz/cli... · Posted by u/thenipper

garbanz0 · 3 years ago

I'm guessing the people publishing the package need to pay gas fees?

Not ideal since people make packages as a labor of love. Maybe a community fund to pay gas fees would work.

RL_Quine · 3 years ago

It's not ethereum, it's some other bespoke blockchain to issue NFTs on.

RL_Quine commented on Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew github.com/teaxyz/cli... · Posted by u/thenipper

jerpint · 3 years ago

What makes you think this is a pump and dump scheme? Other than the word blockchain

RL_Quine · 3 years ago

The website linked, and it's associated information all absolutely scream red flags and is functionally similar to a hoard of other schemes. It's a technically simple product (distribute binaries from a webserver) with a completely arbitrary cryptocurrency stuffed onto the side, allowing for bombastic, buzzword filled claims which just defy reality. It attempts to promote itself by driving users who will get some form of profit sharing as part of their participation, promising some sort of rewards paid by the creator.

> Package maintainers will publish their releases to a decentralized registry powered by a Byzantine fault-tolerant blockchain to eliminate single sources of failure, provide immutable releases, and allow communities to govern their regions of the open-source ecosystem, independent of external agendas.

It's existence is an attempt to justify the creation of yet another cryptocurrency, not as a serious solution to any problem that exists in distributing software.

RL_Quine commented on Tea: A new package manager from the creator of brew github.com/teaxyz/cli... · Posted by u/thenipper

RL_Quine · 3 years ago

> Upon successful submission of a package, the package maintainer will receive an NFT to evidence their work and contribution. The holder of this NFT will automatically receive all rewards associated with the package. Package maintainers may transfer maintenance ownership over a package to another package maintainer by simply transferring the package’s NFT. Successful transfer of the NFT will lead to the new owner automatically receiving future package rewards.

I want literally nothing to do with a cross between a binary distribution tool and a cryptocurrency pump and dump.

RL_Quine commented on Tailscale Funnel tailscale.com/blog/introd... · Posted by u/soheilpro

RL_Quine · 3 years ago

I'd still love for them to support some other form of auth, Google or Microsoft auth is an incredible drag as a gatekeeper to their product.

RL_Quine commented on Ubuntu's settings won't open after setting CPU to 'performance' jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mikece

loudmax · 3 years ago

It's unfortunate the GNOME is still the default desktop environment for most Linux distributions. People give Linux a try, then give up because it's unstable and difficult to troubleshoot. Linux itself is stable (given the right hardware drivers), and provides a solid foundation for a well designed desktop environment. It's GNOME that's a mess.

One of the core strengths of Linux is its modularity, with parts being easily swapped so distro managers or end users can customize what they need. GNOME goes against this by taking on hardware management tasks that are well outside the scope of a desktop environment and munging it all into a giant ball of complexity so everything depends on everything else. If the GNOME project had the resources to hire a massive QA team to catch issues like this, it wouldn't be such a problem. But they don't, so GNOME's shortcomings and poor design choices give desktop Linux a bad reputation.

RL_Quine · 3 years ago

GNOME isn't even a fraction of the problem, desktop linux is absolutely unsuitable for day to day use and that's nothing to do with the desktop environments. The foundational design decisions of the way applications are rendered in linux means that every experience is inconsistent, nothing even has the same file picker and it's always a surprise to see which one is thrown in your face in any given situation. This sort of inconsistency is ripe throughout every part of linux, everything works so long as you make it your full time job to work out what the incantation is to enable basic convenience features.

RL_Quine commented on Emergency SOS via satellite apple.com/newsroom/2022/1... · Posted by u/tosh

papito · 3 years ago

This is great, but people do still need to keep in mind that this is not a full replacement of the emergency beacons that use the Cospas-Sarsat system, which would work anywhere, from pole to pole.

If you are going to do extreme hiking in Patagonia, get a real distress beacon. There is no service charge except for the device itself.

This is no joke - I had to use mine in the middle of Death Valley (of all places) during a seizure-like episode. Saved my life.

RL_Quine · 3 years ago

Yeah, it's no replacement for a dedicated device, but it's with a whole lot of people all the time.