...that was the question I asked my Dad, a radio engineer for many decades, who worked at the biggest AM station in St. Louis, KMOX. The station is approaching its centennial in 2025, as are—some YouTube commenters argue—its primary audience!

I recorded that video during my convalescence at my parents' house (I am feeling much better now, thank you!), and my Dad discussed a few reasons why AM radio—at least in the US—is not dead. But it is suffering.

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For many years, I've maintained some scripts to do basic disk benchmarking for SBCs, to test 1M and 4K sequential and random access speeds, since those are the two most relevant tests for the Linux workloads I run on my Pis.

I've been using this script for years, and it uses fio and iozone to get the metrics I need.

And from time to time, I would test a number of microSD cards on the Pi, or run tests on NVMe SSDs on the Pi, Rock 5 model B, or other SBCs. But my results were usually geared towards a single blog post or a video project.

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This is the Compute Blade, and I'm test driving it in a four-node cluster:

I'm testing the Dev version, and @Merocle from Uptime Lab sent four Blades, a 3D-printed 4-bay case (a metal 1U rackmount enclosure is in the works), and two fan modules.

He's been testing 40 of these in a rack at Jetbrains for months, and they're about to go live on Kickstarter.

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For the past few years, my workflow for editing videos for my YouTube channel was the following:

1. Write and record narration / 'A-roll' using a teleprompter
2. Import recording into timeline, and chop out silent portions manually using the blade and/or range tools
3. Work on the rest of the edit (adding 'B-roll' and inserts).

Step 3 is where the vast majority of editing time is spent, especially when I need to add in charts, motion graphics, etc.

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Even though I no longer have the ability to toot IRL, I am tooting over on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy.

Twitter's rash move to block the only clients that made Twitter somewhat usable was apparently intentional:

I've used Tweetbot for years, even after Twitter removed some levels of API access to encourage users to stay on the official site or app (which both offer horrible UX in comparison). I decided to subscribe to Twitter Blue, since I know they don't get ad revenue from me and I have gotten a lot of value out of Twitter. But no longer—I'm cancelling my Twitter Blue subscription and will not re-subscribe unless they make things right with the third party devs who made the platform what it is today.

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I'm working on a project—a very dumb project, mind you—and I was trying to acquire the two current-gen flagship GPUs: an Nvidia RTX 4090, and an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

In some weird stroke of luck (it has been difficult to find either in stock), I was able to get one of each this week.

(lol at the size difference...)

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