let’s have a poll
everybody can vote
the two schizos, the two misfits, the quiet one, and the weirdo
we’ll even give the moron a vote
i think that’s everybody
then we’ll count the votes
you’ll still be an anti-semite
anti-semites will still be assholes
and oh yeah since i believe in objective reality
you’ll still be an okie moron
You don’t know either.
Yawn* I’ll go find something you can work with.
Can you explain truth using a coin?
So when you see ‘the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the Holy Place (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains; let him who is on the housetop not go down to get things out that are in his house.
Matthew 24:15-17
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear in your ear, proclaim from the housetops!
Matthew 10: 27
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Thanksgiving is coming. I need to run bake a few pi’s.
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Sounds cool! What is a Ryzen box?
What is “Arduino” anyway? I used them for small tasks at work, but until now I don’t know what actually is “Arduino” since I programmed them in Visual Studio
- Is it an IDE, however You can program Arduinos also with e.g. Visual Studio?
- Is it a board/chipset, however there are so many non-Arduino boards with very different chipsets out there, some much much more powerful than the original board and still are “Arduino-compatible”?
- Or is it “a standardized way of programming” namely a BIOS + Debugger + Library to make things easy?
I lately read about “freeRTOS” for the ESP32. Arduino compatible, 10 ZOGbux for the board, extremely powerful and probably able to do different tasks at one. Dual core. And OS is free. Sounds interesting. But I didn’t try it - no time.
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For there shall come the greatest tribulation
Such as this world has never ever seen
Flee Judea and don’t stop for earthly treasures
Look to the clouds - Jeshuah comes as king
Ryzen is a new(ish) AMD chip that competes with Intel. They blow away the Intel alternatives for lower prices, generally. I’m planning to build a few using this case when I get back to Canada. It might be time to upgrade. My current computers in Vancouver are now almost 7 years old. They’re still super fast and work perfectly, though, so I’ll need to think this through.
Arduino is a hardware/software platform that lets you program a low-powered computer, usually to automate small tasks. Will says he’s going to use his for robotics which means he must have purchased some additional components.
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Oh, I thought they target Atom users (mini devices with passive cooling), but it seems they’re more a competition for intel desktop CPUs. The link you posted displays a “big” case with a fan.
It’s tiny. 30 cm x 20 cm x 11 cm. It’s also not just a case and fan. It’s a case, fan, motherboard and power supply. All you need to add is a CPU, RAM, and SSD (or three), and install your OS. I could probably put together a 32 GB RAM / 2 TB dual-SSD combination with a decent CPU and that shell for $600.
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it’s pretty high though, almost like my desktop PC. I have a small Atom device at my mother’s that is only 3 cm high or so. It is not powerful though, but you can do some word, mail and bbad LOL. Even some video, however the device is getting to its limits with video.
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I understand. That Atom will also probably be passively cooled and therefore silent. I don’t care. I’m done with slow computers. If I click something, I want it up right now. I also like to choose my components. I’m a fan of Samsung EVO drives and Ryzen CPUs and I don’t want someone else choosing those components for me.
We are in a new phase of computing where more and more is going server-side and Moore’s law no longer applies. I built my current computers in 2013/14 and they’re perfect still, running Windows 10 with Benchmark scores around 8000 (which is still 5 times faster than any Atom). This is my way. Every few years (or even every 7 years), build some good machines with the best components for perhaps $600 each and know they’ll probably last a decade if you want them to.
Side note: These computers are big enough to fit several SSDs which makes for better multibooting if you want to run Linux and Windows. I don’t like to install multiple OSes on one SSD, myself.
gosh, then Atom isn’t for you 
I am more forgiving when a computer does need some “extra reaction time” as long as it isn’t my main computer.
I tend to use used hp desktop stuff and never had a problem with those. Upgrade the RAM and that is it. Well and the neat Atom for places I only dwell for a short time.
Oh sure. I have a “backup box” that does nothing but generational backups of my Dropbox every day and copy it to my Onedrive. That runs a Celeron 4000 with 4gb of RAM and I don’t care at all because I forget it exists until my calendar reminds me to check if it’s running every Saturday morning. I think I spent $200 for the whole box pre-built on Amazon. I added some huge SSDs for the generational backups and a Windows 10 license and that’s it.
EDIT: It’s amazing how usable it is, btw. I can easily use it for Chrome/Gmail/Youtube/BBAD and can even do Zoom meetings with it if I want.
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Why is everybody using zoom now? Does it have any advantages over Skype? It seemingly came up with the whole Chinavirus hysteria, right? Therefor my attitude towards it is a bit leaning to the negative
Skype is fine for 1 on 1. Zoom is better for group meetings, which are very common now with Covid. Google Meet is also very good for meetings. There are also some other options.
Skype is challenged because its best experience is using installed software as opposed to Zoom and Google Meet which work in a browser. I know Skype works in a browser, too, but the experience is horrible and, again, no group meetings.
EDIT: I really think the ascendance of Zoom during Covid was luck. Real meetings were forbidden so virtual meetings became a thing. I don’t think Zoom could’ve planned that.
I remember in the early 2000s Skype tested group meetings, but I guess they have been sold several times since then and might have forgotten about it since then. You know the early 2000s where there already have been things like “Microsoft Netmeeting” where most people you randomly connected to trying out your freshly installed broadband internut connection were showing their dick into the cam. Almost MS dickmeeting
That goes back to the late 90s. I remember my first Microsoft Netmeeting. “Incoming call from Nude Boy Tonto”. The net was young and we weren’t all so jaded. I said “wth is this” but hit answer. I wouldn’t today but, again, I was less jaded then and it was polite to answer incoming calls. My screen filled up with Nude Boy Tonto who lived up to his name, with his back to me, bent over so that I could clearly see far more of where he uses the washroom than I wanted to. I’d say something like “those were the days” but only the software has changed.
Crazy how people 20 years later still associate stuff. MS Netmeeting will be forever linked to freely swinging dicks looking perkily into the cam single-eyed, regardless of their technological advances or changes afterwards. Skype with family calls. Now zoom is associated with group meetings in corona times. The latter being slightly more useful for marketing purposes 
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okie moron