Looks like you edited but kept the “th” suffix instead of “nd” :)
Looks like you edited but kept the “th” suffix instead of “nd” :)
My carrier is Google Fi — one perk is that they will give you free data-only sims (up to 10 I think?) and you just pay for the data you use like any other data. I have used old Android phones in USB tether mode this way, and it works just fine. So, rpi+old/cheap phone should do the trick.
One fun bonus is that if you tether over USB it will work as a WiFi dongle, too — the failover from WiFi to cell should happen on the phone, transparently iirc. Not sure if that affects you.
Caveat is that I did this a while ago, and their pricing structure may have changed. Finished to be a great deal but has slowly become another carrier with not much to differentiate it…
Lol, comment removed. It ended with, “…support for the Chinese Communist party” as a way of finding out someone is a child.
Which was then removed in a, dare I say, childish act of moderation.
(Which is fine, the folks at .ml are welcome to censor as they see fit, of course, and I’m sure this comment isn’t long for this world.)
IIRC mine (as an employee, not HR) verified some stuff on my CV (education details I think).
AFAIK in the USA you can’t have the main batteries be replaceable (I think an aux battery for wireless functions is allowed…).
EDIT: I seem to be thinking of California, maybe not all of US.
What country? AFAIK in the US you can’t make the batteries replaceable. If they are wirelessly linked they can have auxiliary batteries for that, but (I believe) that’s different than the main battery…
EDIT: I seem to be thinking of California, maybe not all of US.
We really need to see info from the BIOS — exact CPU model, RAM speed, etc.
As others have pointed out, this is a pretty anachronistic build — i586 with DDR1 is just weird, so it’s possible there’s some really niche hardware and you may need an exotic kernel (or kernel options) to get anything to boot.
That said: have you just tried running a standard live or install CD from that time period? You could try booting a 2001 Slackware installer to see what happens.
Can you post the CPU info? I think it should be available from the BIOS.
A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers…
There’s an audio illusion that’s somewhat analogous to the barber pole illusion — instead of a pattern which appears to always go up or down, you can have a sound which seems to always go up or down in pitch: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
Have you heard the joke about the SEO manager who walks into a bar pub saloon watering hole place to meet friends great cocktails beer on tap?
There are plenty of distributions without systemd — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_without_systemd
Looks like Slashdot no longer allows Anonymous Cowards. TIL.
(I’m not editorializing — that’s what you’d show up as if you posted anonymously.)
Codec has huge impact.
There’s a certain irony in bemoaning subscription news paywalls on an article about the alternative, unsavory monetization paradigm…
Double-sided phone could be pretty neat.
So it’s a security camera pointing at your screen, but with AI involved.
Honestly though, this sounds like the kind of thing you could hack together with a shell script and OCR on a *NIX system in an afternoon. Cronjob to take screenshots and run them through OCR, keywords to a database. Add hooks to your window manager to take additional screenshots on relevant events (change desktop, application opens/new window on screen, etc.).
I was curious, so I looked it up and it seems that around 3KB is the max for a single 177x177 code (though I imagine this is a “soft” limit?). With 600DPI being common for laser printers, a DPI-limited 3KB would be well under 1cm x 1cm. My hunch is that this wouldn’t be super reliable (DPI limit not necessarily the resolution of the printer?), but I’d be curious to see what the usable QR density actually is. But yeah…a few QR codes should do the trick!
I would be surprised if you couldn’t get 8KB for 200 years out of standard flash simply by extreme duplication — 8GB/8KB means a million copies on one (very small by today’s standards!) drive.
Or is the failure mechanism something other than bitrot?
Yeah, but this is (according to OP) faster, which saves money. And, because it’s open, if there are features that could add serious value, they could be added in-house.
But yeah, perhaps a bit of a pyrrhic victory.