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16gb raspberry pi was always weird, even 8gb. It’s more just a desktop pc or something at that level - the used pc market has usually been similar vfm when you factor in storage and peripherals.

The pizero2(W) is still very cheap for real raspberry pi stuff - where you just want an OS for some reason instead of esp32.

If I got that question by text though I’d normally ignore it until Monday. Bumming around doing nothing is one of my most valued hobbies.
“are you bored ?” might get a response, but better to reveal something about the proposed alternative. “want to do macrame on Sunday?”

I especially hate this one in work. “you free?”
Unfortunately, a polite reply is expected in that context so i can’t say “no” (I’m at work, as you fucking well know).

The question normally means " i fucked up x and don’t know what to do about it"

If they don’t tell me what “X” is, how do I know where their fuckup ranks in the wider population of fuckery.

yeah that’s what had me confused.

Maybe they mean open some process management tool ?

Things like archwiki and forums and manpages / open source made it possible. LLM might give you their answer faster, but risk of missing some context that might be important.

Might make open source more trustworthy, It can’t be any harder to check than closed source.

UK law basically doesn’t use the term.

My point was that proving dominance and abuse is rarely objective fact. It sure isn’t showing market share and that some games companies go out of business. They have to show the things that valve does to restrict competition - being popular isn’t enough alone.

Your last question is quite a good example of how hard it is to prove because it includes counterfactual comparisons.

This might be why it seems (if the journo is to be believed) that they’re going down the tie-ins angle for the DLC, not necessarily headline pricing. Thou the latter would probably a worse outcome for valve if guilty.

There are not many objectively provable monopolies and i doubt that English law would support that claim without extremely strong evidence, generally utilities are the only ones that’d get close. A necessity with high fixed costs and infrastructure lock-in.

Steam has high market share in a segment, but not necessarily a distinct segment, I’m sure steam would argue that there are enough consumers who can and do substitute between pc and console and mobile, as well as other vendors so that their market power is mitigated by a fair amount of consumer mobility.

So what you’re looking to prove is unlikely to be a pure “monopoly” but ‘excess market power’, and ‘abuse of market power’. That is a complex legal art that the competition regulator is usually not that successful at proving, at least in English law.

Abuse of market power has to impact consumers not producers. There are always marginal producers struggling to make a profit - that happens in competitive markets, producers bidding prices down, some going out of business. I’m not saying I agree, but that’s more or less how the law sees it, lookup what they let supermarkets get away with in contracts with farmers.

To show consumer harm from upstream market manipulation you’d probably have to show a material dearth of choice being created by steam policies in order to jack up prices. Maybe that can be demonstrated, but it’s not simple and more likely to come down to subjective interpretation of the arguments and evidence from both sides rather than any unarguable objective truth.

If it were unarguable or objectively true then the CMA might lead the investigation itself instead of this being a private action. Though maybe this is too small a market for them to worry about.

I think prawns can become horseys and (however unlikely) rooks and bishops too.

If they can transform species like that then I think a penis or a womb here or there is no big deal.

I think maybe they’re more like snails, who’ll do whatever it takes to secure a mate.

Unfortunately it needs a safety cage around the bottom end. That’d probably spoiling the visuals - though clear acrylic might work.

The tuning was the the other huge issue, he didn’t actually say how long it took to get in tune tune, nor how long it held tune.

cool though

Is it even true?

I’d have thought if i find the right wine prefix, use some winetricks type thing on it, execute whatever installer, then it should modify that game files / env?

I’m not saying i’ve ever done it, but it feels like that would most likely work just fine.

I mean as a uk steaming turd, i’d take the cash ( so long as it didn’t require age verification), but there are way more egregious infringements of competition in this cuntry that get off scott free even after CMA “investigations”.

It’s worse than that, lots of these linuxes actually have this builtin virus called wine, which means they are really just windows in disguise.

It also makes them look like a hacker to the FBI, that’s why TYOTLD has never come. Most linusers are getting dissapeared to guano bay.

Far safer to stay on windows, linus is only suitable for real hackers who can grep their way into cia mainframe to expunge their records.

Nah, the data just sounds better on vinyl. Especially if you use valves instead of silicon transistors.

Without vogels there’d be no tweeting.

ha

DOS and win2000 (debloated) was the only ones i could stand.

XP debloated was almost tolerable, but 2000 was nicer for reasons that i cant remember.

I’m not sure about calling windows the OS before me/xp though (whenever they put the NT kernel into consumer) - i think before that it was still effectively just MS-DOS as the operating system. Windows was more like a desktop environment in linux terms.

For example i think I used the same windows 3.1 or 3.11 across several operating systems, dos 5.0, 6.0, 6.2, 6.22. Windows 3 never really seemed to do any basic OS stuff , like configuring memory or disk drives or setting up IRQs for like soundcards and stuff.

Win95/98 never actually bothered me; it was easy to opt out of the gui (which i didn’t like at all).

Thanks! You stopped me clinking the linked slop so i downvoted OP, but your comment made me look up the previous project and some of that made me feel slightly less bad about my own shitty ignorant failures with guitar effect circuits.

https://github.com/torvalds/GuitarPedal

If you actually know what you are doing, and you looked at the schematic and went “Linus is clearly way over his head, and that is just stupid”, whether it comes to parts choices or to just the circuit in general, please let me know.

In particular, don’t feel like it would be impolite to tell me I’m incompetent and doing stupid things. I absolutely know I’m not competent and would love to hear any criticism. Some of the best teaching moments have been when I haven’t understood something, and somebody piped up to tell me I should do Xyz.

I’m going to leave the link to the “Tremolo doubling as a metronome” issue from the 1590A pedal project, because that was a case of somebody (@gralco) coming in and very politely telling me I was doing stupid things.

Pushing me to do simulations in KiCad completely changed the game. So don’t be shy to tell me my circuits suck. Because that’s literally why I do this!

Long before the term intelligence was sullied by the prefix “artificial” the phrase “police intelligence” has long been a euphemism for a suspicion that they cannot back up with any evidence that would stand up in court.

I think coprolite seems like a perfect fit for their methods. They just need to train it to start off with solid evidence and fuck it up until it doesn’t stand up in court. Then it’ll be employee of the week. A bit like computer driven cars, it might be shite but that doesn’t mean it is necessarily worse than the typical human cop.

The real problem is if it’s harder to hold it to account.

I don’t know about supplies in rest of the world, but typically the rpi “kits” that include the book seem to be very limited and rarely in stock.

I think the book, at least older versions, can be found on ebay though. I think its just a basic into to python and GPIO so the earlier editions are probably fine.

Compare it to the likely alternative for the task/person, probably R or even MS excel in many cases i’d guess. The alternatives should ideally be based on empirical observation of the population. The marginal saving of choosing a higher efficiency than python might look a lot lower.

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