Even the hassle of flying is worth the time and money saved.
You’ve touched on the answer here. The answer is duration of travel. The same labor that is required to move one trainload of passengers on a long haul route can move many many times that number of passengers on an aircraft simply because the aircraft spends less time traveling. So the cost of the tickets must rise to cover the costs and eek out some profit.
Surely there has to be some way of mitigating the ecological damage.
Absolutely there is for most rare Earths or critical minerals!
Although I’m sure it’s “too expensive”.
Yep. Or rather, it is far cheaper to accomplish if you don’t give a shit about the environment.
First, I think we both don’t like the Pi5. So we are in agreement on that. If you want we can stop right there on the same page.
I’m not sure why you’re referring to the Pi4
My first post in this thread was talking about Pi low power and small physical size. I was talking about all Raspberry Pis in general. I never put forth the Pi5. You did when you raised the 5V5A requirement. That exists only on the Pi5. You’ll also see in that first post of mine is where I disavowed any recommendation of Pi5.
You then went on in your next post about Raspberry Pis needing active cooling and heat sinks. Again, that is only the Pi5, which again, I said I don’t support.
So if you’re wondering why I keep talking about Pi4 and below is because those are the ones I like. In this thread you keep posting facts about Pi5 (without pointing out that those only apply to Pi5), and so that’s why I keep referring to Pi4 (and below).
You say you don’t use or recommend the Pi5 and yet you’re seemingly arguing that its power supply requirements aren’t a big deal and that improvements should absolutely not be made to it.
I’m arguing power supply requirements shouldn’t be made to Pi4 (or below). I don’t use Pi5.
As far as heat goes, these devices already need heatsinks and case fans, so the difference seems negligible.
Pi 4 and below don’t require active cooling. I want to keep it that way.
Also, good luck using a Pi5
Again, I offer no defense of Pi5. I don’t use it and don’t recommend it.
China is the only real supplier of Gallium
Like many other critical materials and rare Earth’s (of which Gallium isn’t one), the USA has sizable deposits of the materials. What we lack is the ability to refine it usually because the process to do so is so ecologically toxic.
Low power draw but ridiculous power supply requirements of 5V5A (depending on the model) with a USB-C connector which isnt a thing outside of this specific application meaning they’re going to be expensive and hard to source.
That’s only for the Pi 5 (the highest end unit), and I’ll agree that at that level its hard to justify a Pi over a larger computer. Even for the Pi 5 its not that hard to find those Power Supplies. Most laptops today use power supplies that meet or exceed those specs. You’re right that those are more expensive than Pi 4 and below Power Supplies.
They should have just done a barrel plug or put an effing voltage regulator on board like Arduinos.
Again, no defense of Pi 5 from me. However, for everything below Pi 5, HARD PASS on a voltage regulator. I don’t want that heat in the tiny Pi case. At the lower power requirements of Pi4 and below USB power is fine.
I mean, that wasn’t the first rename for silly reasons. There is a long tradition of this for Oracle DB naming. That “c” in 23c meant “cloud”. Nothing about the DB 23c required it to installed or run in the cloud. That was in 2012 with DB 12c. Before that in 2003 it was “g” in DB 10g for “grid” (remember the grid computing hype?). Before that in 1998 it was “i” in DB 8i for “internet”.
Pi is also a fraction of the power consumption (meaning also heat dissipation requirements) and physical size.
I’d like to think the Priest’s “Bread/Wine convert to Flesh/Blood” also works in reverse offensively. As in a priest can cast this spell on a living person and turn them into a loaf of rye and a bottle of Merlot.
5KB of RAM
TIL! I’ve been living a lie for decades thinking the 20 in VIC-20 was the amount of RAM like the 64 in C64 meant the amount of RAM. I only owned the C64, never a VIC-20.
These are also good stress relief. The flap on the front has to be opened to expose the neck of the bag, and you can’t use a blade without risking cutting the bag. So the most common method I’ve seen (and used personally) is to throw a couple of right jabs with a closed fist right at the front of the box.
Punching the box is stress relieving.
Commodore VIC-20 came out in 1980 with 20KB as well.
I appreciate the reply with your experience and the context. Can I ask what your opinion is on electric paramotors? Do you think they are mature enought yet?
Every 5 years go so I think about getting into powered paragliding. It looks amazing! Inevitably each time I find youtube videos talking about how much progress has occurred in the industry…and a heartfelt eulogy about a wildly experienced paraglider pilot that died recently while paragliding. I always turn away with the same thought: “If the very experienced people are dying like this, it is far riskier form me to try.”
$0.21 isn’t going to get you a piece of one. However, if you can come up with another 4 cents and you go down to the bodega on 2nd there’s a slice of avocado toast they’ll let you get a nibble off of for 25 cents. They also sell loosie cigarettes.
Wether AI already contains hidden ads or not, it will be here before we can blink an eye.
Its not hidden ads. Its likely lazy operating using the public internet for its training data scooping up ads already published elsewhere on the internet. I seriously doubt Facebook, Google, etc got paid to mention those unlicensed casinos after they were specifically prompted to return answers for unlicensed casinos by the article’s authors.
Your rant has nothing to do with the article. Did you see “AI” and then just copy/paste a premade AI rant you had on hand? You’re stomping pretty hard on Rule #6 of this lemmy community.
Long story short I don’t feel like I deserve romance in my life yet. I feel like I got nothing to offer.
Turn this perspective around. Assume you have a mate. Describe what things you like about them such as:
Character
Finances/Employment/Career
Intelligence/Education
…etc.
Now, how do you stack up against your list of traits and values you want for your mate? Do you see any particular shortcomings in yourself? If so, that’s your list to work on and you can know you can offer your mate exactly what you are looking for from them.
We happened to be a drug store yesterday in the Easter candy aisle. We saw the bargain basement horrible candy maker “Palmer” with two different hollow candy rabbits.
Palmer’s Parsnip Pete:
Palmer’s Peter Rabbit:
Both of these were side by side and marked at $8.99 each. It took me a bit to figure out why there would be two different candy rabbits from the same company, sold at the same price.
Peter Rabbit is 5oz and is chocolate
Parsnip Pete is 7oz and isn’t chocolate! - looking at the ingredients is all sugar and hydrogenated oils. Only a tiny bit of chocolate in it.
Palmer is the worst chocolate I’ve ever run across. Even if I’m offered it for free I won’t eat it. I don’t consider it chocolate, and with their other lines of products (like Pete) that isn’t just a preference on my part but a provable fact.
Instead of letting fields lay fallow for crop rotation, they could plant diverse wildflower meadows to improve quality of bee health for the traveling bees that get shipped around for crop rotation.
I can see a potential problem with this suggestion. How many of those wildflowers are net nitrogen fixers? If they are net-negative this approach could be draining all the nitrogen out of the soil during off-rotation years meaning large amounts of petrochemical fertilizer would have to be used to make the field productive again for nitrogen consuming crops (like wheat and corn).
If you want a well researched and referenced argument. Here is a good one.
If you’re moving the goalposts to include all the infrastructure of air travel, then you must also include the infrastructure costs of long haul rail travel. Building out new rail travel for hundreds of miles of long haul service (which is what I think OP is looking at, and what I specifically replied to) is monstrously expensive.
Can you point me at examples unsubsidized financially self sustaining (profitable) long haul rail anywhere in the world?
We’ve to enough moving parts in this conversation. Lets table this one to include actual costs paid and ticket prices please.