First time I had a power outage at the studio, during a winter storm—and luckily everything came back up hours later. But you shouldn't count on things 'just working'!
Here's what I did right, and what I did wrong:
System76's Thelio Astra is a quiet monster—it's by far the world's fastest Arm PC, and it starts at half the price of the Mac Pro.
Check out my video on the beastly machine here:
Latest AI pet peeve:
'Influencer ad companies' now send emails with flowery language about how amazing [insert my last three videos here] were, generating quotes that make it sound like they watched them.
Then they're like "and we have this spatula we'd like you to review"!
"I was told Rockchip no longer considers RK3588 to be an “open source” chip. In practice, that means Rockchip no longer contributes RK3588 code to open-source projects and they also decided not to sell RK3588 directly to SBC vendors."
This, paired with Joshua Riek stepping away from ubuntu-rockchip, doesn't bode well for RK3588's SBC futures.
Maybe why Radxa is going with a different vendor for their next flagship board, the Orion 6?
Raspberry Pi launched the Pi 500 today, a keyboard that's actually a computer. It's $90 with 8GB of RAM and an included 32GB A2 microSD card—but no M.2 slot! They also released a new monitor, and if you want to learn EVERYTHING #Pi500, check out today's video:
Many viewers asked after my CM5 video whether Home Assistant Yellow (a local/private smart home hub I love!) works with CM5. The answer: emphatically YES!
Another drop-in upgrade giving an instant 2-3x speed boost. More on my blog:
