The oldest known banksy is from the 90s.
What else was banksy going to be but old? Time doesn't stop just because you're famous.
What else was banksy going to be but old? Time doesn't stop just because you're famous.
Every time I deal with arm linux, it reminds me of why every time I see threats to move away from x86 it gives me the chills in a bad way.
I could build a USB memory stick that would run on a particularly unusual Pentium 3 (since most Pentium 3s didn't have boot from USB) and would be fully capable of booting on every machine released since. Meanwhile, every memory stick that I create for arm needs to be so incredibly specific that just making bootable media is the single most difficult part.
It's kind of a shame because arm has some really cool features that would potentially make it really useful, but without the surrounding ecosystem it's just not a single thing.
I could build a USB memory stick that would run on a particularly unusual Pentium 3 (since most Pentium 3s didn't have boot from USB) and would be fully capable of booting on every machine released since. Meanwhile, every memory stick that I create for arm needs to be so incredibly specific that just making bootable media is the single most difficult part.
It's kind of a shame because arm has some really cool features that would potentially make it really useful, but without the surrounding ecosystem it's just not a single thing.
If it makes you feel better, my gentoo life started on a single core 800Mhz duron so I feel your pain.
It won't be a VPN ban, because of VPN ban would immediately impact millions of people in the laptop classes which includes millions of people who work for the government.
It'll be a ban on using VPNs for unapproved purposes.
Which in some ways is much worse because it's like a digital feudalism.
It'll be a ban on using VPNs for unapproved purposes.
Which in some ways is much worse because it's like a digital feudalism.
Even before 2020, I did some quick calculations showing that the idea that inflation was 2% per year was absolutely absurd. Especially in my neck of the woods, every bill has gone up multiples, and groceries are the worst. Meanwhile, they need to pretend that inflation was 2% that whole time because otherwise everyone's going to point out that my country's economy has been in freefall for decades.
Unfortunately, global politics is looking a lot like bum fights at the old folks home.
A lot of these people really ought to be embracing something like Buddhism in their old age: when you're almost 90, you should be starting to let go of your attachments to the physical world, because you're not going to be here much longer. Instead they're still acting like they're in their twenties.
Cincinnatus was considered Noble and virtuous because after being the absolute leader of Rome during a crisis, he returned to his farm to till the soil. How many of the global politicians have been explicitly unwilling to do anything like that?
A lot of Eastern contexts, there are two different types of demon: one of them is closer to a devil as we understand in the west, a malevolent existence it was only purposes to cause harm. The other one is almost more mundane: mara refers to those who stop you from reaching enlightenment in your lifetime. Through that lens, contemporary global politics is a non-anthropological embodiment of mara, leading elders into an undignified attachment to worldly affairs perhaps leaving behind ghosts who are more concerned with their imminent political power than finding spiritual completeness in the final days of their lives.
In maintaining this spiritually stifling attachment to personal power until the moment that they die, they also fell in their duty to prepare future generations. The successors of long-standing political individuals instead of being vital younger individuals, become someone who is only slightly younger. In this way it is almost guaranteed that there is no future.
The philosophy doesn't mean that the elders withdraw completely from life, but that they recognize their role as elders in preparing the world to no longer have them in it. Instead of continuing the fight, long ago they should have begun transitioning into roles as teachers and advisors for those who will one day take over from them.
A lot of these people really ought to be embracing something like Buddhism in their old age: when you're almost 90, you should be starting to let go of your attachments to the physical world, because you're not going to be here much longer. Instead they're still acting like they're in their twenties.
Cincinnatus was considered Noble and virtuous because after being the absolute leader of Rome during a crisis, he returned to his farm to till the soil. How many of the global politicians have been explicitly unwilling to do anything like that?
A lot of Eastern contexts, there are two different types of demon: one of them is closer to a devil as we understand in the west, a malevolent existence it was only purposes to cause harm. The other one is almost more mundane: mara refers to those who stop you from reaching enlightenment in your lifetime. Through that lens, contemporary global politics is a non-anthropological embodiment of mara, leading elders into an undignified attachment to worldly affairs perhaps leaving behind ghosts who are more concerned with their imminent political power than finding spiritual completeness in the final days of their lives.
In maintaining this spiritually stifling attachment to personal power until the moment that they die, they also fell in their duty to prepare future generations. The successors of long-standing political individuals instead of being vital younger individuals, become someone who is only slightly younger. In this way it is almost guaranteed that there is no future.
The philosophy doesn't mean that the elders withdraw completely from life, but that they recognize their role as elders in preparing the world to no longer have them in it. Instead of continuing the fight, long ago they should have begun transitioning into roles as teachers and advisors for those who will one day take over from them.
I made a neat Discovery tonight.
My Chromecast 4K came with a power supply that doubles as a network adapter. It supports high speed internet so I didn't really have a use for it. I think it was yesterday I mentioned the cell phone I was installing postmarketOS on, I basically wanted to be a fairly long-term device that I will be using for building things on arm64. Now I can and could use the Wi-Fi for that purpose, and I still might, but I decided to try out the USB micro power adapter with the ethernet port inside, and sure enough the ethernet port in the power adapter provides ethernet to the phone.
I would imagine that it is USB on the go, so it's probably capped at an absolute maximum of 480 megabits, which is reason enough probably to stick with the wi-fi, but it's just a very interesting thing to discover that this unusual device is obviously standardized enough that it can provide ethernet connectivity to something else.
My Chromecast 4K came with a power supply that doubles as a network adapter. It supports high speed internet so I didn't really have a use for it. I think it was yesterday I mentioned the cell phone I was installing postmarketOS on, I basically wanted to be a fairly long-term device that I will be using for building things on arm64. Now I can and could use the Wi-Fi for that purpose, and I still might, but I decided to try out the USB micro power adapter with the ethernet port inside, and sure enough the ethernet port in the power adapter provides ethernet to the phone.
I would imagine that it is USB on the go, so it's probably capped at an absolute maximum of 480 megabits, which is reason enough probably to stick with the wi-fi, but it's just a very interesting thing to discover that this unusual device is obviously standardized enough that it can provide ethernet connectivity to something else.
It's always like "wow, and yet there aren't enough government resources to go after major crimes, huh?"
playing with postmarketos on a Motorola G4 Play.
I went with phosh, and I'm actually impressed. Compared to my first time using real linux on a phone with my pinephone, this is actually surprisingly smooth, and a lot of it seems pretty intuitive. I think the browser it ships with is a desktop browser, and I have every reason to believe it could work with other desktop browsers.
Of course, the CPU is lacking, it only has 2GB of RAM (and only 8GB of flash), and I don't think it has any 3d acceleration so it's hardly a daily driver, but I only installed postmarketos on it because I wanted an aarch64 device running linux to complete a future project, but it really was shocking how snappy it was and how intuitive phosh is.
I'm expecting to get my hands on something considerably more modern in the near future, I'll have to give it a shot again once I do.
I went with phosh, and I'm actually impressed. Compared to my first time using real linux on a phone with my pinephone, this is actually surprisingly smooth, and a lot of it seems pretty intuitive. I think the browser it ships with is a desktop browser, and I have every reason to believe it could work with other desktop browsers.
Of course, the CPU is lacking, it only has 2GB of RAM (and only 8GB of flash), and I don't think it has any 3d acceleration so it's hardly a daily driver, but I only installed postmarketos on it because I wanted an aarch64 device running linux to complete a future project, but it really was shocking how snappy it was and how intuitive phosh is.
I'm expecting to get my hands on something considerably more modern in the near future, I'll have to give it a shot again once I do.
Ngl, regardless of the merits of war with Iran, "please don't go to war I want number to go up" is weak.
In the continuing saga of the little Dollar store RC car that could (be a riced up Honda Civic)
It turns out my boy in particularly likes vehicles that light up when they're going forward and backwards, so, I looked around the garage and I have no have these little green LEDs and a red led, and so I hatched a plan. The project was going to be to mount headlights inside the chassis, and it turns out that there was room in the chassis for these headlights, and then later on I expanded to include a tail light, because that just seems more fun that way. As I was going, I realized that I had just gotten a call from the bank, and they told me that if I kept on buying double a batteries for remote control cars that I was going to go broke and we were going to have to live in the street. So, I decided to make this a rechargeable $5 RC car from the dollar store. Previously, the dollar store used to buy these little rechargeable battery banks. They don't really do much with modern phone, but they do provide 5 volts which is more than enough for a little RC car, and they have a charging port. I haven't figured out exactly how to get a charging port outside of the car yet, so for the time being the plan is to basically have to rip the car apart every time it's time to charge, but I was able to fit everything together in the chassis, and it works. It gets power, although I have to admit not very well, I think there might be a minimum load that forces it to cut out (might be a max load cutout as well). However, the way that it's wired up the lights light up when it's moving forward and the tail light lights up when it's going in reverse, and considering that even on AA batteries this thing was running for hours on end, I expect to get a pretty good battery life out of it.
Now some of you might be looking at my workmanship and say that that's disgraceful and really sloppy. To you I have to say, good catch. You're absolutely right.
It turns out my boy in particularly likes vehicles that light up when they're going forward and backwards, so, I looked around the garage and I have no have these little green LEDs and a red led, and so I hatched a plan. The project was going to be to mount headlights inside the chassis, and it turns out that there was room in the chassis for these headlights, and then later on I expanded to include a tail light, because that just seems more fun that way. As I was going, I realized that I had just gotten a call from the bank, and they told me that if I kept on buying double a batteries for remote control cars that I was going to go broke and we were going to have to live in the street. So, I decided to make this a rechargeable $5 RC car from the dollar store. Previously, the dollar store used to buy these little rechargeable battery banks. They don't really do much with modern phone, but they do provide 5 volts which is more than enough for a little RC car, and they have a charging port. I haven't figured out exactly how to get a charging port outside of the car yet, so for the time being the plan is to basically have to rip the car apart every time it's time to charge, but I was able to fit everything together in the chassis, and it works. It gets power, although I have to admit not very well, I think there might be a minimum load that forces it to cut out (might be a max load cutout as well). However, the way that it's wired up the lights light up when it's moving forward and the tail light lights up when it's going in reverse, and considering that even on AA batteries this thing was running for hours on end, I expect to get a pretty good battery life out of it.
Now some of you might be looking at my workmanship and say that that's disgraceful and really sloppy. To you I have to say, good catch. You're absolutely right.
I'd typically be on the same page as you here, but c'mon -- it's a toy pretending to be a car pretending to be a toy pretending to be a sort of phone best known for practically not existing for generations of people.
Jean Baudrillard's simulations and simulacra describe how you start with reality, and reality is then simulated and eventually the simulation is simulated to create a simulacrum, and the original reality may in fact cease to exist. This toy really reminds me of that. There was once a thing as a rotary phone. The rotary phone was simulated in a children's toy. Then the children's toy itself is simulated in another children's toy, and meanwhile rotary phones have disappeared, and in an example of hyperreality, the reference to reality has disappeared entirely and the toy which is the simulation becomes an icon which is represented separately from its original context.
