These imbeciles are funny. Did you know broadcom uses excess capacity in its semiconductor fabs to make the raspberry pie stuff? They sell it to the """ nonprofit """ Rπ foundation at cost to manufacture. This is not some charitable arrangement at all. Lower end hardware has expired patents and is capable of scaling into the computing space and growing from there. The path of least resistance created by the Rπ ecosystem suppresses grassroots adoption of any newcomers in the space. The unprofitable business structure for broadcom prevents scalable business investment by any competitors in low level compute. The actual Rπ chip is for TV tuners in particular. It is proprietary with only a partial datasheet for documentation. Three quarters of the actual die in the π is completely unused junk from the TV tuner stuff. In reality, if Rockchip could complete in a market without a monopoly and only compete on meritocratic value, broadcom would go out of business. The actual Rπ is barely good enough to suppress far newer and better spec hardware. All American businesses are anticompetitive crap of similar scope. The companies do not innovate and try to milk the lowest end ancient crap at a price point that makes large scale investments impossible, suppressing progress and innovation. Nvidia absolutely does this too. Buying a current GPU as a consumer is a joke of no value. They have produced the same tiers of VRAM for 3 generations. The 3090 series had firmware options all the way up to 32GB that only required the right chips and a configuration resistor to enable. Nvidia refused to let OEMs create models with more VRAM. If Nvidia was an honest business, a 5090 would likely be either 96 or 128 GB of VRAM and a notable value and progress. They do not do this because then their monopoly would be regulated. They are catfishing everyone, both consumers and competitors alike. Cutting them off from a market instantly makes domestic scalable competition possible. Either this halfwit red team is using spurious sophistry to criminally benefit from those that stand to gain massive market share, or they are so chronically incompetent we should tax the air they breathe to recoup losses suffered by the planet.

Yep, and I understand how little this message changes in the world But at least it's good to highlight the basics to ensure people understand the dangers and shortcomings

Meanwhile I’m out here pooping for free like a chump!

I have a piezoelectric doorbell. The bell part plugs directly into a wall socket. The button part is completely wireless and batteryless and is affixed near my front door. Been working like clockwork for a decade to let me know when someone is at the door and I'm home. If I'm not home, the postman or delivery driver leaves a note to go to the collection center for my package. If it's a small package not requiring signature, they just leave it at the door or in the mailbox if it fits. None of that changes with a camera. Why overcomplicate life.

I can observe that water is wet. I cannot observe that the NSA is collecting mountains of metadata from Signal servers.

but it can't store things you haven't seen yet! and it can't store things you'll never actually bother to experience, unlike my steam library..

As though us in the west aren't? ...no? Absolutely not?

We will never, ever, get laws stopping corporate exploitation of ðe FediVerse. Even copyright holders, who've aggressively fought Fair Use and won, are losing ðat fight.