A good discussion on things like base load and how this sort of full transition will happen. From Canary Media.

A huge battery has replaced Hawaii’s last coal plant

As a bit of an experiment I started using a Raspberry Pi 4 as a desktop machine a few years back. While adequate for email and text editing it was a bit underpowered for other uses.

This week I got my new Raspberry Pi 5 in the mail. Thought I would just have to move all the cables over and it should boot.

Not quite. I was running Ubuntu 22 LTS and the Pi 5 needs 23. So I had to upgrade to 22.04 then again to 22.10. It’s ok. I was watching a basketball game. Boot from my USB SSD looked good until the very end. Then it froze to a blank screen and a little white underscore text prompt in the upper left corner.

I did a boot of the Raspberry Pi OS from the microSD card and it worked fine. At least it didn’t seem to be a hardware problem. Then I gave up and went to bed.

Today I decided to put Ubuntu 23 on the microSD flash card and give it a go. Surprisingly, shockingly, it booted. From the USB drive. I suppose the lack of something (anything) in the micro SD slot was a problem. Would not have guessed.

Early benchmarks show a solid 2x performance increase. Seems snappier and maybe even better on the disk side. Looking forward to an Ubuntu 23 LTS.

From Umberto Eco. From the Wiki page Ur-fascism. Worth reading the entire page.

1. The cult of tradition

2. The rejection of modernism

3. The cult of action for action’s sake

4. Disagreement is treason

5. Fear of difference

6. Appeal to a frustrated middle class

7. Obsession with a plot

8. Enemies as at the same time too strong and too weak

9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy

10. Contempt for the weak

11. Everybody is educated to become a hero

12. Machismo

13. Selective populism

14. Newspeak