My own Pineboards are presently somewhere between Poland and England. Looking forward to being able to use them 😀

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@geerlingguy those pine board boards are certainly quite interesting.

@geerlingguy you should think about adding to cluster - a scalable cluster - imagine how many you could fit into the tiny rack - 2 discrete clusters each with its own ups - they could probably do some real work and be reliable - you could always sin up some vms to join cluster if you have workload spikes

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It reminds of Friendly Elec CM3588:

https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=294

Is Pi 5 enough to utilize NVMe SSDs?

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=akUP7uRDhdw

@geerlingguy Dad Joke of the year ... and I feel like it would be ... Terrible.

@geerlingguy From my teammate:

@geerlingguy ham radio > hotdog radio

@geerlingguy Have they used better screws than the ones that other review units have (too soft and extremely prone to stripping)?

Also, does it automatically boot off of the NVMe drive, if installed?

Would be love to see other compute modules come out for it in the future to support faster chips or even more efficient chips depending on use case.

@geerlingguy do not tell @pyoor

@geerlingguy does it work with 100% mainline Linux without special forks and patches for their hardware?

@geerlingguy there’s some sort of AT&T routing issue going on in the midwest region. seems to be impacting only some sites.

@geerlingguy Isn't it great the way we've got this source control system that allows for multiple remotes, mirrors, backups, etc., and almost everyone uses it on the same centralised servers? 😅

@geerlingguy yup. AT&T in Kalamazoo, same issue.

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Yes, it's quite fun (and sad) that we shouldn't be needing physical media for a long time anymore, but it's still the ONLY way to own content in most cases.

@geerlingguy this is fun ! :)

@geerlingguy I kind of hope I'm still alive for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

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$ cat /usr/local/bin/when
#!/bin/bash
if [ -z "$(echo "$1" | egrep "^[0-9]{10,19}$")" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 epoch" 1>&2
exit 1
fi

t=${1:0:10}
nano=${1:10}

date -d @$t "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"

@geerlingguy love this! I have a growing pile of usbc cables... I even have one that delivers power only.

@geerlingguy I have a more basic variant of such a tool that has helped me getting rid of some power only cables.

Yours looks more fun though ^^

@geerlingguy #Merica

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That's fucked... Got a link?

Centralization would solve it... but then that's kind of antithetical to the whole fediverse.

Also I remember there's a Mac client for Mastodon now (Ivory for Mac), need to try it out.

@geerlingguy To be honest though, the sheer fact you can do it at all is kind of amazing all in itself.

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This could probably be solved by Fediverse/ActivityPub URL schema. Then your instance could register itself as a web handler.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/registerProtocolHandler

And here's a blog post, for the more text-inclined: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/i-built-special-pcie-card-test-gpus-on-pi