Personally, I don’t think they have any kind of grand plan beyond capturing as much of the market as they can. They’ll keep using the strategies that have been effective, but I doubt they can predict what the market will do, or what ground-breaking discoveries are coming. “No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”

BirdNet, from Cornell University, is pretty cool. I’ve got a RasPi4 that’s been running birdnet-pi for about a year and a half, seems pretty accurate based on the birds I see in my backyard. It’ll also run on a $20 Pi Zero 2.

https://github.com/Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi

s/existed/were useful/

There is an element of truth, but what you’re describing still sounds like a scam. Power factor correction is legitimate, but it’s not something that can be done with a generic product that you hook up to any appliance, or even your whole house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor

Same here, and I think it was also obvious to Jeff (from the OP), but I’m glad he bought one because he’s in a position to raise awareness of the issue.

Yep. My parents always appreciated me answering the phone in the evening and telling the “telemarketers” to stop calling, so they didn’t have to get up from the couch.

I get your point, and mostly agree, but the companies developing closed models are sometimes selling data center services to the real miners - the SV startups that are building products with AI, who are burning a ton of money on tokens. The data centers are making a profit, and will mostly be fine when the bubble pops. So Nvidia is clearly a shovel seller, and SV startups are clearly miners, but the analogy starts to break down when you look at Google, MS, etc.

IMO the Silicon Valley startups are the miners, and companies like Nvidia, Anthropic, and OpenAI are the shovel sellers. And from that perspective there aren’t that many shovel sellers.

Where did you get that from?

Great, sounds like the comic isn’t about you, then.

The unit is arbitrary. Let’s say 1 unit of measurement equals the radius of the wheel. As long as they used the same wheel for all sides of the pyramid, each side will follow the formula: n * 2 * pi where ‘n’ is an integer (whole number). The formula could easily be written in any other unit of distance by multiplying by the conversion ratio.

Sounds like you misunderstood the analogy, I don’t think the person you’re referring to has 2nd amendment rights.

You’re assuming this heater is on grid power. We just need to power it by solar panels that are inside the house, under a skylight. Now we’ve got a 100% efficient heater, just don’t ask about PV efficiency…

Kind of like how if you take a bunch of traditional radar systems, sync their LOs, and add some DSP, you get a phased array. Pretty good analogy, actually.

That’s fair, but where do you draw the line?

Depends on your definition of homelessness. Living in a shitty, broken down van probably counts. But what about living in a $200k Mercedes Sprinter van converted to a camper, with a stable job that lets you work remote? What about a retired couple living in a 40’ RV, after spending their working lives dreaming about traveling around the country?

Wow, that looks really good! I like the labels on each server! Are the 3d printed parts custom or did you find them online?

This is a workstation cpu, if you need a fast PC to do your job you don’t have much choice but pay the AI premium.

The article says it’s for workstations and points out that the dual cache is a potential downside for gaming.

I didn’t watch the video, and I only found out about the blog post through Lemmy.

IMO the blog and video seem a little click-baity. Yes, he technically does acknowledge (in the video, not the blog) that older Pi models are still being produced, but saying the SBC market is dying is crazy. How many projects really need the specs of a Pi 5 in that form factor? If you need that performance, you probably have space for something a little bigger.

Here’s the author’s own tl;dr:

But if you’d like the tl;dr:

Unless the DRAM pricing situation changes radically, I think the hobbyist SBC market is dying—or at least on life support. And I don’t just mean Raspberry Pis, but all SBC vendors. LPDDR chips now account for the majority of board cost from the vendors I’ve checked with.

Raspberry Pi would have been fine if they stopped at the Pi 3. I’m not saying they shouldn’t have made the 4, or even 5… but the Pi 3 and Zero 2 are (IMO) their best products in terms of price-to-value. The SBC market is fine.