It is double that. Anyhow 9% is a pretty substantial short term loss. Markets are nervous but still don’t want to call the bubble for real it seems. Let’s see if they find another excuse in short succession to correct the stock.

“A few percent” is as biased a description for -5% as “plunged”. I mean you can all it both but really both is making it sound smaller or bigger than it is.

And the Zeros are still affordable for everyone and perfectly enough for most tinker jobs. Retail for a Pi 4B 1GB is still 39 EUR. If you need more power than a zero or even zero 2 can deliver.

Not the Pi got ridiculously more expensive. RAM did. As Mini PC replacement of course, the Pi was priced out of competition.

Automated messaging systems have been deterministic but indeed, if more than just a short notice have been routinely ignored by most since the rise of e-mail and automated spam.

Was this written by LLM or am I starting to get paranoid? Do real people write “Let’s break it down …”

Maybe so, but if someone can’t be bothered to write it, I can’t be bothered to read it.

It is how human psychology works. Fuel prices are something people are confronted with on a regular bases and they are a direct expensive, easy to understand, in the moment.

It is, but the other systems are at least as flawed and much worse when things go really bad.

Futurism_com is a lousy source. I think there is every reason to be critical of vibe coding but I hate it that this site is a source for so much stuff on Lemmy.

I can’t relate. They had a paragraph or two on almost anything. Sure that was not much but it was enough as a starting point for figuring out if you wanted to know more.

You didn’t need to be in libraries all day. Depends how much research you wanted to do or how in depth your question were. For many first glances in some topic it was enough to look at your local book store and maybe get an introductory book on the topic (or borrow that book from a library).

Sure, things were slower back then, on the other side, people had more time to actually read the stuff and also the stamina to do so and not stayed totally on the surface as 2 min later they were already onto something else. Upsides and downsides.

The internet has been a great enabler for people with the stamina and interest to actually really educate themselves but many are just floating on slop and information trash nowadays, learning nothing.

I know this is a long gone time but it was quite different from that. At home you had an encyclopedia, a compact mini Wikipedia. For more in depth browsing you went to a library. If you wanted to learn more, you borrowed some books. Things were slower, people actually had the time and will power to actually study these books. If you wanted to know even more you could get more boons or take some courses.

I am not a developer and I don’t trust frontier AI models, but for IT trouble shooting, they are increasingly capable to figure out functioning solutions. Lutris for example currently refuses to launch on Tumbleweed. Even the not so heavy Gemma 4 31B model identified that it is due to relying on some deprecated display resolution feature of Gnome. Its suggested pachwork, basically ignoring that feature, restored Lutris functionality. I tested Cyberpunk and resolution was correct, too.

The Lutris bug is known I think, but until they are relaesing a new version that makeshift solution might do the trick.

Oops, sorry ;)

They are turning the Nazi meter all the way to Goebbels.

Yeah, right when they start to use their robots on the SpaceX Mars base.

Meme stock based on a bubble.

Pi Zeros sell nowadays for 13 EUR. I don’t know when you got yours but it might be just regular inflation since then.

That is just one of the possible uses and not the most important one. Pi’s have two things that regular PCs don’t have. They have a direct integration of an GPIO port where you can easily connect individual wires as needed and they have a huge community and a lot of tutorials and also software support for all kinds of tinker jobs that can make use of that GPIO port.

These two reasons have not gone away and for many of those, you don’t need the most expensive PI with 16GB of RAM. A Pi Zero for 14 EUR or a Pi Zero 2 for 22 EUR are perfectly fine for that. The platform has plenty of life left but those high end Pi are increasingly crazily priced, mainly because of insane RAM prices.

What a raging success. Luckily that pedestrian slicer was never street legal in the EU, so I was never at risk of confusing it with a trash container.

That’s not how Android and AOSP work though and that is the foundation for both, firmware and GrapheneOS. You already have a disadvantage from moving away from the source, which is Google, so that even increases the effort react very rapidly to make up for that. All of that is not cheap.

I would assume you don’t need to go crazy expensive like with that phone now but to see that happening in the budget segment, where they probably invest next to nothing in software and security, just to get by, is naive.