Recent content by AlskiOnTheWeb

TCO of data center hardware is heavily weighted now by power cost inflation. Intel's power hungry thermally inefficient chips that they have cranked out for so long ... have finally come home to roost.

A true pioneer. The entire PDP line was amazing in comparison to everything else that was available at the time.

With so much of the revenue coming from data center and so little from gaming ... you'd think they would focus more on the data center side honestly. It's got to be a lot more lucrative in the long run.

Nice job. That's certainly a better use for a PI than the digital clock project.

...I doubt it! No way could it do THAT much work!

I love my N95 minis. I'll wait a few iterations before I buy any more just to make sure the juice is worth the squeeze ... but they have a winner in these lower power chips. Does everything I ever needed a mini to do and more.

"doesn't need a power plug" ... really? Maybe not a standard one ... but the fact that power is still delivered over a plug in the form of an ethernet cable ... well it just means it draws low power. It's still tethered to something. Seems like a silly clickbait title.

You've got to understand ... some people are there just to make sure they ruin other peoples enjoyment of something. They aren't there to win because they want to ... they are there to make sure someone else doesn't. It's a great negative side of many people. So ... you can either complain about...

When PEEK and POKE were added to BASIC ... it enabled all manner of tremendous hardware register access. It was a great language to use as you never felt far from the machine itself.

Boy! I know how she feels! I backed up 100GB of data to 1.44in floppies last year and now I can't get them to load ... about 20 of the 630,000,000 floppies I used don't work. And here I was thinking I was doing good backing up all my "stuff"!

...So why buy it then? If they manufactured it and you cripple it ... why bother? Gee ... I can run it at half speed and it won't burn up ... great. I just think that the N95 and N100 exist and are much better at doing the "desktop" replacement than the pi is ... and it doesn't need to emulate x86.

It's sad to see just how far the PI has fallen :-( It started out as a nice embeddable simple SoC and now it's this monstrosity that needs active cooling or hideous looking passive cooling.

I bought an 8GB RAM 256GB SSD Simodewa mini PC with an Intel N95 ... for $110!!!!! It came with Windows 11 ... runs perfectly. Why in the world would I ever pay for a RPi 5 to do that same thing? Price wise, the Pi won't stand up even ... nor performance wise ... so why oh why?

It's a shame the latest rPI needs active cooling.

...I did try it, never worked for me