Lamp
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What the actual fuck? Is it April 1st? Not watched the video but really? $130 for a USB-C cable?
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That's a really good video, thanks @Lamp ! It really shows how Apple can charge huge amounts for massively over-engineered tech, but my argument has always been that for over 95% of use cases it's totally unnecessary.
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Watch the video then
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This
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Not saying I disagree with the sentiment, guys, but have you watched the video? It IS some serious engineering. I hate Apple as much as the next guys (possibly more) but credit where it's due, I say.
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showing how much animals poop....with fruit !
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Heh, my younger sister popped in today with her kids and my brother's son. Was talking and I, in casual passing, said
"I am shitting so much I block the toilet everytime I go, all because I am eating so much food to try and gain weight and strength". She just smiled bless her.
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Best feature on my Pixel 7 Pro by miles, especially alongside the business lookup it does
Wij
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Um. So how do pigs shit 2.5 times as much as they eat?showing how much animals poop....with fruit !
We Show How Much Animals Poop... With Fruit!
To show how much an animal poops and how each species can drastically differ, we’ve compared the amount of poo to its equivalent weight in fruit!
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They're getting expensive and noisy now though, I bought a cheap mini PC for WFH so the gaming rig wasn't chewing through power to run an RDP session, was probably twice as much but it's x86, inbuilt storage, TPM, regular bios / RTC, came with windows, etc. and still passively cooled. If it could have been powered by USB-C, I probably would have replaced my Pi's with it then and there.
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What did you go for?
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Quieter3Q-Shenzhen MeLE
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Just under £200 on Amazon I think. Mostly for the dual HDMI
Edit:
View: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09XJX3CPQ
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Honestly haven't tried as it came with Win 11 and once I turned off all that "in the middle" shit on the taskbar, I've not been bothered enough to get rid. I generally see windows long enough to remote into work, launch word or open firefox, that's it.
Most exotic thing it does is I couldn't be arsed to turn on the gaming rig the other day so I put Steam on and ran Star Trek Infinite. Bit slow to load (no surprise given the CPU) but perfectly playable.
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Many or most ad-blockers do not work withim Youtube, as you’ll be locked out. I’m using Brave browser, think it’s a version of Chrome with built in ad-block that is not detected as an ad-blocker. It’s great!
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For one moment I was tempted to go buy a Raspberry Pi. All that computing power in a machine with no case or cooling fan the size of a credit card. Well that won't over heat. I just need to attach a mouse, a keyboard, a screen, some speakers. Hang on. Wouldn't it be amazing if you could get all that in one self-contained box without a million cables littering your desk. Someone needs to invent the laptop...
JK
I know nothing about them. Why would you get one ? Genuine question. The last thing I want is more cables over my desk. A PC for £80 is cheap. Are they actually any good ? Do I need one ? All I use my laptop for is internet, media, and MS Office. I do a ton of Excel. I need at least half a TB of storage. Can you get that on a Pi ?
JK
I know nothing about them. Why would you get one ? Genuine question. The last thing I want is more cables over my desk. A PC for £80 is cheap. Are they actually any good ? Do I need one ? All I use my laptop for is internet, media, and MS Office. I do a ton of Excel. I need at least half a TB of storage. Can you get that on a Pi ?
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It is more about the tinkering for me. Also, very portable. I use the PIs for NTP (two of them have satellite dongles attached to receive time from multiple satellites). They are my preferred NTP servers. I did that a few years ago as a POC.
I also have one being used as a TV Headend and has my old aerial connected to it, again more of a tinkering job. They are versatile and so many applications for them. Just get a cheap PI 4 and play, your imagination really is the limit.
I also have one being used as a TV Headend and has my old aerial connected to it, again more of a tinkering job. They are versatile and so many applications for them. Just get a cheap PI 4 and play, your imagination really is the limit.
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I've got at least one of each version, the other thing is they are LOW power, like a lot less than a lightbulb.
I am currently building a tower "rack" to put all my PIs in so it is tidier.
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Well it's a Thunderbolt cable, it just looks like any other USB-C cable. FWIW I don't have any Apple products other than an old ipad pro, but after watching the video I don't think it's a lot to pay. At work the editors use Apple laptops and when you're transferring massive video files all day long, you need it to be fast and 100% guaranteed. And in TV 130 dollars isn't even worth blinking about.
Yeah, far be it from me to defend Apple but it's disingenuous to refer to their offering as just "a USB-C cable", Thunderbolt does so much more than USB.
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Since I no longer use a Linux machine at home I use mine to act as my DHCP, NTP and DNS (Pi Hole) server. It's an older model so I can't use it for Kodi + 4K media.
I wouldn't use a Pi as a desktop/laptop but I have one that I used to use to sign requests for an app (it needed to run a shared library that was only compiled for ARM). It was a Pi 3 iirc and it had the PoE addon so I only needed an ethernet cable going to it and I could control it via VNC from another machine.
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Nah. It's not equivalent to the engineering in, for example, a 1Tb m2 SSD - which you can get for less than half the price of a fucking cable.
Engineering of this kind is cheap. Apple are profiteering.
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If you want to tinker with something, I'd go with the Zero2W, it's the cheaper sibling