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  • That is pretty expensive nowadays, if OP wants to go that expensive, getting a mini PC with the latest intel N150. The pi 5 doesn’t even have hardware AV1 decoding. By the time you have all of the pi accessories, it is not much of a price difference, but defi itely a performance difference.

    https://amzn.eu/d/85cytyZ

    Plus you get benefits like actual storage instead of a separately bought SD card, more RAM, 2.5G ethernet, and HDMI2.1 & USB–C displayport.

    Then you slap Linux on it (and also hope that plasma bigscreen is a success in the near future) and you have a very reliable 4K HTPC that can decode anything you throw at it. It has enough horsepower to be a home server at the same time, unlike a pi while also having just a bit higher idle power usage (2W or so).


  • And I still can only get 0 like, 0 comment shaky cam video of a screen capture of ultra zoomed in tiktoks or blasting shitty electronika music at 100dB clipping all to hell with 2005 era Microsoft visualizer videos.

    Just like pixelfed, there is no way to discover anyone except the same 10-12 rotation of people they put in explore.

    I come back every month or two and swipe through 5-10 to see if anything has changed, but it never has. In the case of loops, the same number of creators, some of which haven’t posted a video for almost 8 months are “trending”? Maybe that is where the “active users” number comes from?




  • Cool project!

    A ton of aesthetic effort for a simple Dev board + enclosure and a vibe coding project, especially since arduino already has libraries for MQTT, speakers, etc… Photo displays & animations galore lol.

    Injection molding is much more of an art than simply CNCing a negative of your part and squirting some plastic in it. There is a reason that injection molding services often have around a 1000€ startup & molding fee.

    Plus a custom PCB means FCC/CE certification generally.


  • Everyone will claim it is the hardware, but we can see from cheap phones that a majority of people actually get outside of the US that it doesn’t matter as much.

    It was never a complete phone after 5 years. It never had the software to actually use it as a daily driver. Calling still “doesn’t work all the time” according to users and similar with texting. If your phone literally can’t be trusted to make a simple call and receive a text out of the box, then it won’t be bought to be used as a normal phone. That’s as simple as it gets.

    It has just been relegated to being a fun side experimental phone for enthusiasts, but you can’t have a company-carrying product like that because the consumer base is too small to fund the software development.

    They also specifically say

    While in the future the PinePhone Pro will be able to serve as your daily-driver smartphone, at present the PinePhone Pro should be considered a development platform.

    On the store, which further discourages consumers.

    Building a smartphone OS and all the features needed is an extremely expensive task, so it is completely understandable that it has gone at a snails pace.





  • Well in the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy, and more, fascist movements are exploding in popularity and the EU is actively trying to break encryption and turn itself into a surveillance state yearly. Also the fact that information is also controlled by a select few mega corporations and oligopolies are almost as common as the US.

    Not to mention the UK which has already been a right wing surveillance state for years and is transitioning into a police state and arresting any dissenters constantly.

    We like to pretend we are a paradise compared to the US, but we are very very rapidly taking the exact same path, just at an earlier stage.




  • Xperia 5ii here, fingerprint sensor slowly died. i still absolutely think it is a software issue that Sony intentionally put in there for planned obsolescence because Sony sometimes just re-enables it randomly after a restart, and multiple other phones have a similar side fingerprint sensor without the issue at all.

    Some people have said a factory reset fixes it for a while too, which lends more credibility to it being an intentional software block.


  • If you mean weightlifting, liflog is really the best that there is right now. Beautiful interface, simple, database of exercises to add (though it is isn’t as good as something like Progression, which isn’t open source).

    Programs for weightlifting are pretty simple and Jeff Nippard has great program overviews for different goals and availability, and tons of other fitness youtubers also.

    If you mean something that is more bodyweight/calisthenics with video/animated explanations then I don’t know of one.