Baguette has many senses in French. One of them is a small or thin stick, a regular stick is a bâton. I don’t know the etymological details, but as for sense these words today, it remains true that baguette is a kind of small bâton.

Guess which country they are actually dragging back to the stone age.

One thing to know about French language, is that whenever there is a grammar rule, it only covers at best 50% of cases and the rest are exceptions to the rule.

For instance:

• cigar -> cigarette
• trompe -> trompette
• (Cool, looks like we have a rule here)
• baguette, must be a small bague, right ? WRONG ! It’s a small bâton.

Here, I fixed it for ya:

Publicly broke spaghetti in half before cooking them too much.

The only Raspberry Pi cheaper than 10€ is the Raspberry Pi Zero (no wifi) that launch at 5€/$5, the Raspberry Pi Zero W (with wifi) launch at 10€/$10, both in 2015. Raspberry Pi 1, 2 and 3 launched at 35€ and since the 4 and 5, it’s a bit more complicated because they have different RAM options. Today, the RPi4 1GB is sold 37,90€. Availability is more of an issue. But in terms of pricing it’s not bad ! I have the feeling, people’s expectations for a Raspberry Pi are a bit distorted. No, you don’t get a top of the line gaming PC for 40€… But even a RPi2 is still good for a tone of useful projects!

Be careful before uploading your config files to a public location like GitHub, you don’t want to inadvertently publish some secrets like passwords, API keys and such. A copy to an external drive should do the trick just fine as a starting point.

Don’t forget to setup venv first (Not my cat)

If you would be sailing, it would probably have the less impact on the environment. But a Diesel powered ferry ? I have no idea how it compares to air flight. The train is probably better than both ferry and plane in this case.

I’ve definitely heard a lot about arranged marriage from colleagues and friends from India.

I am from West Europe and currently living in Germany where I have met my wife on a dating app.

It’s strange how this article mentions she is pro-palestiniens and forgot to mention she is from Palestinian decent. Overall this article doesn’t provide much information about what has happened and why. Which tweet were used to accuse her ?

I learned the other day there is a nuclear reactor in development that will use as primary coolant…molten lead.

Still use to boil water then, but pretty freaky still.

Please note that Home Assistant is officially supported on Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 with 2GB of RAM minimum Raspberry Pi - Home Assistant

If your older rpi is for instance a rpi 3 with 512MB of RAM, I’m not sure it’s going to cut it.

They don’t have to make alternative OS illegal, they can simply make it unusable.

It’s not necessarily done my pure evil intent, it just happens as a side effect of other decisions.

One example right now is how Google is locking down the Android platform by making side loading mode difficult in the name of security. But more generally with the example of Android, how Google set the standard by providing frameworks and development tools in their terms, that become the defacto standard without any kind of industry wide consultation, is a big problem. My banking app use to have its own implementation of the NFC payment, it worked perfectly fine with GrapheneOS, now they updated the app and decided to just integrate the Google Wallet instead of maintaining their own implementation of the feature. Now it can’t be used with GrapheneOS. In this example, Google is in full control, and I, can’t do anything about it even if I am savvy enough to use custom ROM on my phone. Google didn’t act evil, they provide some tools and service, the bank didn’t act evil, they are just make technical choices that make financial sense, but in the end it contributes to take away our rights. I can either decide NFC payment with my phone is not worth signing a contract with Google and give up the feature, or I can decide my privacy is not worth the hassle and move back to the Google “certified” version of Android.

In the end, if a corporation can make more money, they will cease the opportunity. And they will absolutely make it illegal for you to own things or make choices if they have enough political leverage. Just look at all the DMCA and other anti “piracy” laws out there! In the USA it’s a federal crime to break a digital lock even on a product you bought and paid for ! It is defacto illegal to do what you please with something you “own”.

I have read excellent critiques of the Polish voice acting from Cyberpunk, but honestly I wouldn’t bother playing a game in a language I don’t understand if there is decent VA in a language I do understand.

It’s in the law in PRC that you are not allowed to be a trouble to public order. It’s written pretty much like that with no further details. They don’t have to ignore their own laws. They merely have to interpret it.

Oh, he wouldn’t get in trouble because he is obviously a European/USian white man. A Chinese person doing it would be in a lot of trouble.

The Data-Terminals and mainframe architecture of the time was a technical solution emerging from limitations of the time, bulky and pricey electronics. Also, computers at the time were used for special tasks.

Today, we can fit an ultra powerful computer in your pocket, no problem. You practically can’t survive without a smartphone (or computer), or yes you can survive, but you can’t be part of society without one.

Today’s trend to takeaway the computing power off the hands of normal citizens, when it’s so cheap and practical to have it, is not driving by technical limitations (or improvement of technology). It’s driven my the goal to extract every bit of money, ownership and finally freedom that we have have citizens.

Why would they give you the option to buy a top of the line 2000€ laptop and let you use it with Linux for everything you need until the heat-death of the universe when they can can extort you of 200€/month instead? Much more profitable. They can change the price whenever they want and you will have no choice but pay, because you can’t even find a single DDR3 RAM stick to buy anywhere! Why would they just let you use the heated sits in your car when they can extort you of a 60€/month subscription for it, on top of the 70k€ buying price ?

It’s not a technical trend, it’s an ideological one.

Bro, that’s a nice cock !

Additional stuff you may be interested in:

Caddy for reverse proxy (accessing your services with a nice URL instead of IP address and port numbers)

PiHole for DNS-level ad-blocking and other useful router functionality

Look for a backup solutions for your config files, maybe you can handle this at Proxmox level but I don’t have experience with that.