My Samsung phone can treat a monitor like an external screen and acts like a simple computer if connected by usb. I forget what it’s called. Is that an option for you?
Smart speakers with personal assistants like Amazon Echo etc. Not remotely useful enough to be worth placing spying Equipment all over my home.
Wireless headphones. So now I’m supposed to recharge my headphones and get worse sound quality for it? In a few years they become e-waste, while good wired headphones can last decades. No thanks.
I have my trusty raspberry pi 3b+, 4 years old now and been on 24/7 as a bit torrent box for 3 of those years. Never had it crash once other than deludge gtk having more leaks than a sieve.
“Nothing happens in god’s world by mistake.” “God never gives you more than you can handle.” Etc etc.
When 1 in 6 women has been sexually assaulted in their lives (and many men and NB folks), that’s a really fucked up thing to say. You never know what someone’s been through, and I’ve personally been through a lot of awful things. I guess it helps some people to tell themselves this kind of shit, but it is impossible to me to think of any kind of meaning that would make being a victim of violent crime “positive” or “worth it” or “a learning experience” blah blah blah. I think the term for that is “toxic positivity.”
So either “everything happens for a reason” is utter bullshit, or god is a sadistic fucking asshole.
I like Pine64 because they running any operating system that runs on ARM and has an open bootloader. The Pi has a proprietary booloader so they don't work as well for BSD.
Beagleboards are great. Good Support and nice community. Nearly as good as Pi. I used BBB because it was the only open hardware SBC available in my area.
BTW: Please recommend me other good Open Hardware/Open Firmware SBCs. I am always looking for something new. Maybe for a Router or Selfmade-NAS.
I would love to replace my tp link archer c7 v5 with something more powerful, but it has to be flashable with OpenWRT and kind of an all in one box router with wifi (i know, seperation of concerns would be better, but i don’t care atm).
I’m watching this thread to see the recommendations. The only SBC I have seen that was designed for routers was a Pi that was on Vilros; you had to get special permission or something to even order it.
They specifically mention running WRT on the R1 Plus, so there’s at least some path to using it as a router.
I’m using one of their Orange Pi 5 boards as a Plex server running Debian and it’s been a tank.
NanoPi/FriendlyElec has a ton of multi-Ethernet boards. I haven’t had as much luck with their hardware, but they’re still trucking along, so it might work for you.
my favorite name origin for a bit of software relates to the text editor nano. nano was written as a standalone clone of Pico, as a play on metric prefixes, but Pico is actually Pine compositor, part of Pine, an email client. Pine itself was based on an earlier email client called Elm, and has been attributed as various recursive acronyms such as ‘Pine Is Nearly Elm’
If it’s competitive game you are in there to play for the “win” and fun comes from trying to win for it. ie. if you play a fighting game in none ranked queue to try a new character, you learn nothing while not trying to “win” thus even not-MMR-ranked queue will usually have a hidden one stick to it so you don’t play against players that are too good/bad against you. (yeah, I know the practice landing hit-confim or combo/setups against real human player is a thing and not thinking about winning. BUT the end goal is “winning” with your new tool. )
ranked games are the trying to play at higher level mode where you try to push your skill up and thus can play against higher tier players. And to my opinion, it is also fun and why people grind.
I prefer GNOME to KDE but while I understand that there’s research and philosophy behind some of the decisions, I just can’t get around some of the quirks. “Workflow” itself is fine, with tiling on top, you can get by. But those window decorations… So much space is taken by a completely useless, fat bar at the top of each window even though it’s not really aimed at being touchscreen native.
Using a software defined radio (SDR). However you would need additional hardware. The most popular one, RTL-SDR works well with Android apps. There’s a lot you can do with SDRs. With my phone I mostly use it for receiving satellite imagery from the NOAA-15, 18 and 19 which transmit APT around 137MHz making it easy to receive with a simple V-Dipole antenna. Recently Meteor M N2-3 has launched which also transmits LRPT, which is digital at 4 times the resolution. Unfortunately, its LRPT antenna has not deployed properly so the signal is very poor. Ideally I’d use a Yagi-Uda antenna for that. For decoding LRPT, I use SatDump, for APT I record it as audio in SDR++, then use noaa-apt in Termux, but SatDump can decode it too.
I also use it for receiving DAB+ radio with welle.io. A separate DAB+ receiver would cost me just as much as the RTL-SDRv3 + Dipole kit.
ADS-B is also fun to look at.
Anyway, there’s a lot to do with it ranging from just listening to FM radio, up to (illegally) decrypting GSM phone calls and SMS texts. Crazy Danish Hacker has a series on the latter: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRovDyowOn5F_TFotx0n8A… but that you can’t do on a phone anymore.
Edit: I forgot to mention Android Proxy Server which is useful on school network to go through my data.
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