This isn’t particularly new, they’ve been calling it a genocide for a while now and taken several previous actions.
I’m not sure what the EU finger pointing means, though. Them following suit or the opposite? I don’t think they’ll have much to say either way.
So just to be clear, OP is here saying owning a Raspberry Pi goes beyond tinkering and is for engineer nerds and you’re jumping in to propose that you want to develop your own microcode or you riot?
You may be in the wrong thread, friend. If you want to chat about how afraid you are of what AMD and Intel are putting in your morning cereal you may want to start your own conversation about it instead.
The Raspberry Pi is explicitly build as a widely available tinkerer tool. Its stated goal is to be cheap and widely available. Do you know what I would have given to be able to buy a disposable computer I could slap into things in the 90s for the equivalent of 60-100 bucks? That’s insane availability. We could argue about how successful they are at that goal, but it doesn’t matter because there are now even cheaper knockoff boards out there. It’s bonkers.
And guess what, building a IBM PC compatible at home in 1989 was nerd engineer stuff. It cost an order of magnitude more than the Pi, for a start, but it was also poorly documented, hard to get and nobody else was doing it. The only reason I got one of those at around that time is I had a relative who was an actual engineer and knew what to get.
You only remember it being accessible tinkering for the masses because you got good at it.
Incidentally, I’d argue that Linux used to be tinkering, now it’s… you know, a OS.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s still janky, but unless you deliberately throw yourself on the deep end the most “tinkering” you have to do is copy paste a line into the command line every now and then. And I would dispute that Windows is that locked down, either. Maybe Microsoft would like to lock it down further, but you can do whatever with it. For one thing you can run Linux inside it, if we’re talking about tinkering.
Yeah, no, but that’s my point. Cars, and particularly certain cars, have become less accessible and more locked down.
But a bunch of other stuff has popped up that wasn’t there before, too. Try home automation, self-hosting, 3D printing or energy self-generation back when you remember servicing your own car or modifying the exhaust on your motorcycle (teenagers here didn’t have cars in the first place, actually).
That’s why I’m saying you’re mixing up two things. It’s one thing that corpos are closing down mainstream consumer products, it’s a very different thing to claim there is no tinkering left outside of… installing Linux in your old laptop and having to troubleshoot it constantly or whatever that scenario is.
It’s just not true. There’s plenty of tinkering left, new and old, in a bunch of spaces. Which is not connected to whether or not you get to upgrade the RAM in your Mac Mini. Different things.
I don’t know, man, I think there’s a lot of subjective experience in that perception. VCRs are actually kinda finicky, and you would not mess with CRT TVs at home if you respected your life. Computer stuff used to be prohibitively expensive, too. And cars weren’t any cheaper (I mean, where I am, your mileage may very if you’re in a place that uses miles). Plus the number of people I know with a different number of fingers than they used to have because of messing with car repairs is more than one, which is several more than I’d hope.
Meanwhile the average Joe can get a crapped out C64 on the Internet for peanuts if they just want to feel useful by doing some light soldering. Or recycle a laptop into a home server for literally zero money. You can get a 3D printer for 150 bucks and spend the rest of the decade getting good at CAD or 3D sculpting for fifteen bucks per kilo of plastic.
I’m not even saying the more recent stuff is better or more accessible. It’s just that middle age crises are what they are and it’s easier to remember older things fondly. I was a kid, we didn’t have a ton of money and I tinkered on my computer despite the fact that messing it up would have meant not having one anymore indefinitely. Plus I didn’t have youtube tutorials. The first time my BIOS battery died I spent months manually entering my BIOS settings on every boot because I didn’t know what had happened and had no info to find out.
The stuff I did with my parents around the house hasn’t changed, it was all saws and nails and hammers and hoes. That was the same thirty years ago and three hundred years ago, too.
I’d say you’re mixing up two things. It’s objectively true that consumer electronics are cheaper, more disposable and less repair-minded than a few decades ago when it was all fire hazards, big fat caps and wires everywhere. It is absolutely not true that tinkering as a hobby has gotten less accessible, popular or readily available. It just shifted around a little. The tools changed, the types of things you mess around with changed, some became available that weren’t (no home servers for you in the 80s!) and some became harder.
Is it?
I mean, you can “tinker” just fine on commercial, proprietary hardware. That’s the point of programmable computers in the first place.
I mean, this makes no sense, but it’s a window into a particular mindset.
FWIW, computer builds are about as complicated as they’ve been for a decade, there’s a whole new market for at-home object creation ranging from 3D printers to affordable laser cutters (sometimes both in the same machine), retro computers haven’t gone anywhere and are way more popular than ever as a hobby. If the real stuff is too hard to find or expensive there are now ways to build replacements ranging from single board FPGA units to kits where you can buy a PCB and all the components to solder at home.
There are now self-installable solar panel kits, fully open source home automation systems, and a whole subculture of very manageable self-hosting built around recycled old hardware. As a penis wielder of a certain age I feel like my socials are made up of nothing but aggressive hobbies to sink money on while pretending I am more crafty than I am so me and my middle aged friends can brag past each other about our computing habits or gardening habits or building habits or health habits.
BUT this is a thing. This is a thing people feel. They will go check a Linux distro because it feels weird and hands-on and crafty and adventurous, even though it’s…, you know, installing an OS on a computer that mostly works fine.
If it’s any consolation, this has been part of the appeal for three decades, give or take a few years. The “nothing else we can tinker with” angle is relatively novel, though.
It’s been raining for five days after months of heatwaves and I’m sleeping with my windows open.
I realize a lot of this comes from being a non-native English speaker from a language that looooves its subordinate clauses, but subordinate clauses aren’t bad or scattershot and there’s nothing inherently wrong with them.
English has just decided that the period point is the only acceptable punctuation for stylish writing and I have to disagree. I promise a thought can have more than one part and still be valid.
The number of novels in the world written in a single sentence is enough to have a top three and still argue about it.
My Windows machines seem to be just fine with the couple of NFS shares I use for easier cross-platform mounting on boot. It comes at the cost of some security, though, so I use it to share unimportant stuff I want to mount very freely, like some media libraries. I use SMB for the rest.
I’m curious, what’s the issue with NFS on Windows for you?
I am literally cutting it off at 18, hence the safety net thing.
If you’re gonna go into biological limits we’re looking at the end of the 3DS era. You could technically have grandparents who weren’t born back in Red/Blue days, but we’re trying to keep things from getting gross, we’re just aiming for depressing.
Look, I do feel some empathy for people stuck in less civilized parts of the planet, but I can’t personally care about every self-destructive, violent culture that fails to join modern society, you know?
I do support protecting their refugees, assuming they are willing to, you know, integrate into the culture.
What are you talking about?
There are parents out there young enough to not remember the remake of Red/Blue.
You can have your parents be younger than Diamond and Pearl before it starts making me think about the failure of social security nets.
It… would be pretty horrific if that wasn’t the case. Like, wake up tomorrow and my parents are teenagers? People I work with are babbling babies? There are people out there filing my taxes. I need them to not crawl back into their mother’s womb. Who in this scenario may as well be a toddler. No, thanks.
All I have is what you can get by looking him up, and I am definitely not an expert. I’m saying that this one guy referencing his one model for his one theory of society-as-ecology deserves a more nuanced headline than “the world is ending in 25 years”. If I can speak on anything here it’s on the reporting.
He isn’t even saying anything that controversial when you dig through to the actual statements, which is a constant of mainstream news reporting on science news. “With all these things, at the rate we’re going now, we can carry on with our present unsustainable use for a few decades, and by around 2050 we won’t be able to continue it any longer” is barely any more severe of a warning than any climate scientist or ecologist has been making about these things for the past four decades.
Hell, if anything he seems to be less concerned than the average Lemmy denizen:
He explained: "As for what we can do about it, whether to deal with it by individual action, or at a middle scale by corporate action, or at a top scale by government action - all three of those.
"Individually we can do things. We can buy different sorts of cars. We can do less driving. We can vote for public transport. That’s one thing.
“There are also corporate interests…I see that corporations, big corporations, while some of them do horrible things, some of them also are doing wonderful things which don’t make the front page.”
Post that around these parts, you’ll get people calling you a corporate shill for even entertaining that personal behaviour has an impact in this process or that any corporation is doing anything positive.
Don’t hear the Express go “dude on the Internet thinks it’s high time we ban cars before we all die”, though.
“Popsci author repeats claim he’s been using for decades to sell books that most anthropologists question”.
Man, sometimes I think newspapers and traditional media should be banned from reporting on science at all. I am very critical of social media and what Internet does to communication, but I’ll admit that the extremely focused experts that communicate on a narrow field for a living do a much, much better job of parsing published claims than traditional generalist news ever did. I am exhausted of impossible galaxies, stars that “should not exist”, healthy superfood, cures for cancer and world-ending events.
This is true. I had been thinking my previous post was a bit too optimistic, actually. For the sake of making a point I implied that conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers didn’t previously exist. They absolutely did. There was plenty of public conflict about masking and social distancing in the 1918 flu. The AIDS panic was horrific and obviously this isn’t the first time that hate discourse puts fascists in power in a major superpower, let alone in a country overall.
The real issue with the Internet isn’t the flexibility of truth, it’s the ease in diseminating the satisfying falsehood. With no source of authority over which truths are acceptable and what lies are shameful you end up in a worldwide radicalization engine. It’s not that the old gatekeepers told you the truth, either. They still don’t. But at least we all had some culture-wide baseline for acceptable narratives.
But hey, people can keep hating on the obvious boogeyman of AI. At least it’s a start to realizing what the pattern is. It’s still not “the end of truth”, but like I said elsewhere, if it gets people to start noticing these things we’ll be better off than when social media was doing the exact same thing to us as a global society without anybody realizing.
It does say “check the results manually”. Not that this changes anything. For the record, always double check anything any AI tells you unless you can verify the response off the top of your head. Also for the record, double check anything anybody else tells you. If you haven’t seen it from more than one source, you don’t know if it’s true.
Hell, if the thing people learn from AI summaries is to never believe anything the see on the Internet without double checking it we’ll be better off than we were before.
Also, every negative impact you assign to AI is applicable to traditional search. I was hearing communication scholars warn people of the issues with algorithmic selection and personalized search back in the 90s. They were correct.
I am endlessly fascinated by the billions of boiling frogs that hadn’t realized their perception of the world was owned by Google until Google made a noticeably change to their advertising engine. Did you think them getting to select which answers you got at the top of the page and which ones to bury past the fold was any less misleading? I am increasingly glad that AI is as unreliable as it is at this point. We definitely need a change in how people acquire information.
You seem to be factually wrong. Every source quotes the crimes he was found guilty of as “rape and sexual acts with a child”, in quotes. “Sexually assaulted” seems to be an informal description chosen by the journalist, as it’s not quoted.
That is a pretty strong reaction to correct the record on something where you seem to be wrong yourself. I’m gonna agree with the other commenter here that you may want to think about why that is.
For the record, if you wanted to be mad about the headline, the most misleading portion is that he was not fined, he was given a year and a half prison sentence that will not require him to go to prison for procedural reasons. Also, he spent five months incarcerated during the trial which, as is common in Europe and other places, is counted towards his sentence once found guilty.
Still a surprisingly lenient sentence given the crime. For reference, where I am the rape would get him 1-4 years, so he could have been in this situation where I am with a lenient judge, but the underage victim would get him at least two years and there’s no avoiding jail with that big of a sentence. I have no idea how Swiss laws are formulated here.
Yeah. You’re basically buying a laptop crammed into a small box. May as well get a laptop if you need the small footprint and portability or a desktop if you need the price-to-performance.
Also, the Steam Deck thing people keep repeating is terrible advice. Even these can power their components somewhat robustly. A docked Steam Deck is still a 10W APU for no good reason. It depends on use case, in that you also get a handheld out of the deal, but if you’re looking for a primary device even a laptop would be a better choice.