I needed to replace my alternator recently. The brushes from the voltage regulator had worn down. If anyone thinks AI or any of this other wonder technologies are going to get us very far, then try fixing something for a change. I mean no robot is going to replace a skilled mechanic any time soon. And its soo much problem solving and learning on the way. The only reason that it is hyped as much, is that the people with the money have not done a single bit of actual work in a very long time/ever.

Happy Best Friend Day.
Take the time to talk to your friends. I promise it will make you feel a lot better than any companion AI or social media stalking.
#BestFriendsDay

More RISC V play. The VisuonFive2 board has a definite issue, and it is not the processor but the very slow I/O. As my OrangePi RV2 just landed on my desk, I thought I would give it a try. The I/O is much faster, and just in the couple of hours tinkering this thing feels very usable even for a desktop. I would say it is somewhere between an RPI4 and an RPI 5. But that is just my initial impression.

This means that RISC V is a definite threat to ARM at the lower-middle tier of the market.

#riscv #linux

Today… some tinkering. Debian on a StarFive VisionFive2. Though this is an image provided by StarFive, it looks like it is pulling riscv packages from the Debian unstable repo, which is nice.

And, of course, I wanted to see rust on it so I installed yes-rs for the added chuckle factor.

#riscv #linux #rustlang

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New #rustlang reqwest v0.12.16 out now! 🦀

- Several HTTP/3 improvements.
- A redirect limit off-by-1 fix.
- Add headers for a proxy.

Includes internal refactors of types now in hyper-util or tower, like redirects, proxy matchers, and proxy connectors!

https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/releases/tag/v0.12.16

Blazingly⚡️ yes!
#rustlang

https://github.com/jedisct1/yes-rs

Interesting… Canadian GitHub competitor: https://about.worktree.ca

Linux News: Armbian 25.5 Released with Support for Banana Pi M2+ and BeagleBone AI-64 SBCs https://9to5linux.com/armbian-25-5-released-with-support-for-banana-pi-m2-and-beaglebone-ai-64-sbcs #news #FOSS #linux

This Memorial Day I am following tradition: car shopping. We pulled into an independent used car lot with one right across the street. This lot had mostly used Teslas and the one across the street looked to be about 60% used Teslas.

After Mozilla’s last screw up, I dumped Firefox and in haste switched over to Chromium thinking I’d switch to some full-featured browser later. Later has not come, and I have not noticed.

What is it Chrome and those other browsers give you? I can’t tell.

#opensource

I just switched from using the Mastodon app to Metatext for my iPhone. It works much better. Too bad the project is now dead. I hope the Feditext fork best wishes in taking over the project.

#opensource