I’m not so sure about his videos / movies, but I’m starting to like this guy. From the Idler.
Month: February 2021
More Hot Raspberry Pi
My desktop Raspberry Pi 4 used a USB HDD disk. Old fashioned spinning platters. It was 4TB and much cheaper than SSDs. Turns out this was probably a mistake. Even with a nice metal heatsink case the Pi was always hot to the touch. I recall about 140F. I sprung for a new 1 TB Samsung USB SSD and (after the usual hassles) got it all set up yesterday. The Pi was noticeably cooler, just over 100F. I suspect the power drawn by the USB HDD drive was enough to heat things up, but probably not enough to cause failures.
Now I wonder if some of the early problems I had getting things like WiFi and Bluetooth to work were heat / power related. Anyway, now I have a proper backup drive (the old HDD). Will be able to organize my files now (really :^)
Word of the Day: Autoglope
From the Brookings Institute:
No, it’s not a coup — It’s a failed ‘self-coup’
New China COVID-19 Testing
And people complain about wearing masks.
China using anal swabs to detect COVID-19: report
Look at Me!
A good read from the NYT about one of the earliest people to recognize the toxicity of group communication on the internet and the reasons why it always evolves the way it does. I’ve been on the internet since the late 1980s. I’ve seen the same pattern across many communication platforms, starting with the old USENET discussion groups. Domination of the conversation by small numbers of people, ratcheting up incivility (“flame wars”), eventual distruction of the platform. I remember this all being described quite accurately in the Douglas Coupland novel Microserfs.
Saucerology
When reality hits a cult. From London Review of Books.
Saucerology
GameStopulism
A good commentary on the current GameStop / RobinHood market mania. From the Noahpinion blog.
GameStopulism
The Capitol Mob
Of course there was much that came before the Capitol Riot on Jan 6. Talking Points Memo follows the activities in th last few weeks of the Republican party attempt to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
Steven A. Guccione 