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I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud
This weekend I had to buy a new dishwasher because our old GE died.
I bought a Bosch 500 series because that's what Consumer Reports recommended, and more importantly, I could find one in stock.
After my dad and I got it installed, I went to run a rinse cycle, only to find that that, along with features like delayed start and eco mode, require an app.
…Exploring WiFi 7 (at 2 Gbps) on a Raspberry Pi 5
Last time I seriously dug into 6 GHz WiFi was with 6E on a Raspberry Pi CM4 with Intel's AX210 card, in 2023.
Back then—and even up until recently—using WiFi 6E or WiFi 7 on a Raspberry Pi meant recompiling Linux, as the iwlwifi Linux drivers weren't included with the default Pi OS install.
But recently, the Intel WiFi drivers were added by default, and now all that's required is loading in the right firmware.
…YouTube scares me; I need RAID 1 for my video content
I've published 500 videos in 18 years on my YouTube channel.
It was different back in 2006, when I moved from Google Videos over to YouTube. Monetization wasn't a thing, and we all just posted video online for the fun of it.
Fast forward to today, and it seems like AI slop is set to take over the entire platform, proving the Dead Internet Theory right. You have AI videos with AI bots watching and commenting, and YouTube enables it by plastering unskippable ads everywhere! They make money, AI farms make money, everyone's happy!
…Is an Intel N100 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?
tl;dr: it depends.
About one year ago, I bought an Intel N100 mini PC (specifically the GMKtec N100 NucBox G3) and compared it to the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB.
A year later, and we have a newer $159 16GB version of that mini PC with a slightly-faster Intel N150, and a new 16GB Raspberry Pi 5.
I re-ran all my benchmarks, and this time compared like-for-like, installing Linux on the Mini PC. Many people argued comparing the OOTB experience running Windows 11 Pro (which came on the Tiny PC) to Raspberry Pi OS (which I installed on the Raspberry Pi 5) was unfair.
…Windows 11 Arm VMs on a Raspberry Pi, with BVM
With the release of a Windows 11 for Arm ISO, it's easier than ever to get an officially-supported install of Windows on many different Arm PCs—now including a Raspberry Pi.
The Windows on R seems like it has run out of steam, as many open source initiatives do, after years of being bludgeoned with support requests being the only way to really get Windows going on a Pi.
But GitHub user (and high-schooler) Botspot just emailed me his BVM project, short for 'Botspot Virtual Machine'.
…Progress on Intel and Nvidia GPUs on Raspberry Pi
Nvidia GPUs have been running fine on Arm for a while now—I just upgraded the System76 Thelio Astra to an RTX 4080 Super and am testing it now.
But Nvidia seems to have a partnership with Ampere, which probably leads to their drivers getting priority support, and likely a few special edge cases in code to work around a couple PCIe quirks on the Altra CPUs. Nvidia also builds their own Arm CPUs—a lot of them—so Arm support is definitely a priority for them.
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