Put together $765M in direct contributions, $40B loss in the Twitter-Xitter transmografication, call it $50B in total "investment".

In 2015 he was worth about $13B, today, after losses, he's worth in the neighborhood of $770B, that's a CAGR of around 45%, $50B "losses" while that kind of growth is happening is in the noise, one bad year, even losing 50%, when your growth rate has been a sustained 45% per year for 11 years - that's trivial.

Now: should these concentrations of wealth ever happen in the first place? Absolutely not, which is why he's "investing" so much in preserving the structures that allow it to exist at all.

My portfolio went up after the election, but I'll gladly trade it for 1% of Musk's.

Ah, that kind of passwordless - thanks for the correction.

The passwordless I always use is the one where you turn on the machine and have access to the desktop without entering credentials.

In some "passwordless" configurations - in other words: working as designed.

I don't make Android apps because the environment is a treadmill - constantly requiring app updates to run on the newer OSs. I have not (yet) experienced the same forced obsolescence in any of the Linux flavors - apps I wrote 20 years ago still compile and run without mods, just relink to the latest libraries and go.

an AOSP (Android Open Source Project) phone already is a Linux phone

Until it has ssh access and a command line package manager ala Debian APT, RedHat YUM, Arch Pacman, Alpine APK... it's not "Linux" enough for me.

No: PMS doesn't count. Compared to ssh -> shell, ADB is a PITA. If ssh is too much attack surface for you, securely switch it off until you need it.

Superposition is for quantum computing, C++ does not apply.

I bought them a long time ago, and always refused to pay scalper prices. My Zero 2Ws were all $15, most of the others are Pi4 and Pi5 from before the RAM inflation.

Power is nice and stable in this arrangement, a bunch of the RasPi foundation supply bricks on a power strip mounted to the breeze-tunnel.

I've been a NUC fan since forever, but last year I had two NUCs that I bought in 2020 die within a month of each other, one had a power supply issue and I think the other one had a worn out SSD - it was working fine when I unplugged it, but when I plugged it back in 6 weeks later it wouldn't boot.

Like I said, one old / low power NUC could do this, but when it dies far too much of our smart home goes dumb all at once.

Another thing LLM agents are good at is reading log files and giving you clues as to what just went sideways, when that includes a system restart it's nice to be able to look back acrosss the logs of the past several cycles.

They (fs2ram and similar) are annoyingly, frustratingly fiddly and not worth the effort IMO... until I got Claude to do the fiddly bits for me... It isn't just the initial setup, it's also the additional hoops you have to go through whenever you want to change something on the "protected" partition. Fiddly is the word for it, not hard, but time and brain-power consuming.

I've got a box I made with a air filter and 200mm fan on one end, then it blows through a "tunnel" that has a network switch and 4 Raspberry Pis inside, one runs Frigate with an AI hat, another runs home assistant, another is running my Pi Hole, another is basically a NAS with a 2TB external USB drive, and they do a whole bunch of other miscellaneous ad-hoc tasks. The clean airflow keeps them cool just sitting there with open PCBs and the normal little heat sinks, they're all wired to the switch so only 1 ethernet cable comes out.

On the one hand, a single Core i3 PC could probably handle ALL the tasks easily enough, but... what about when Frigate goes weird? I don't want my whole home DNS/DHCP and home automation to go with it. Same for everything else, and if one of the microSD cards goes bad (none have yet after over 1000 days of 24 hour continuous operation except during power outages) - that's just one thing going bad, not EVERYTHING.

I must admit the 2TB external drive is cheap junk, and those things do "wear out" - even internal SSDs go bad over time, I've had it happen at work more than once within about 5 years of normal use. I try to get the better microSD cards for the Pis and so far they're not having problems for me.

One thing you can look into if you like messing around with system configurations is partitioning your microSD with "immutable" partitions where any changes are written in RAM (yes, RAM heavy Pis are even more expensive than they used to be, but it all depends on your application...) I do this for my Pis that run around in the world and get their power cut off without warning - failures are so rare in the first place it's hard to know if all the partition work is worth the effort, but so far I've never had a corrupt file system with the immutable partitions carefully configured, and I have had several before I started doing that - not failed SD cards, just corrupt filesystems that needed to be re-formatted.

of course, on Lemmy you’ll get downvoted because “ai bad”

There was a time that was 100% true, I'm seeing a bit more from different points of view lately.

24 months ago I wasn't saying "ai bad" I was saying "ai nearly useless."