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If you are happy to drop Ethernet and use a fast wireless connection then the Pi3A+ costs £23.50+p&p from Pimoroni. Taking out the Ethernet seems to have made Bluetooth and WiFi more stable, but for some reason it uses a USB-A connection and is not completely interchangeable with Pi3B+ or Pi Zero accessories as a result.
I’d recommend using a small USB hub + stick or cheap SSD for storage as SD cards are prone to fall over if they get too many read/writes. You could use a Pi Zero W and do it on the cheap for £9.30 +p&p
In the case of the Pi3A you could ad three more USB ports together with an Ethernet hub for £10 but that would add up to the cost of a Pi3b+.
If true gigabit Ethernet and USB3 is important then you need to wait till next year when the Pi4 comes out.
Learn how to use Audacity and you can mix your own tracks as well as add your own reverb, flange etc. It may turn out as crap but at least it will be yours!
Correction – the F35C (our Turkey) is projected to cost $107.7 mullion each – i.e about 40 drones per Flying Turkey!
The latest update on this massive cock-up can be read in Foxtrot Alpha.
Who needs a Flying Turkey or expensive fighter pilots!
The Yanks just flight-tested their stealth fighter drone XQ-58A, at an estimated $2-3 million per plane (roughly ten of them for the price of a Turkey and half the size) we could have saved a lot of money and modified a container ship to launch them – so saving a White Efflump cost as well. Though with an operational range of 2000 miles who needs a slow old boat except to carry the crates!
Whichever way you cut a hard Brexit, large sections of the populace will be hurt and the hurt will continue through the next election.
Even ‘simple’ measures to preserve food supply by say eliminating tariffs on Dutch exports of vegetable products automatically means the same reduction for competitive supplies from elsewhere in the world – UK farmers are certain to be hurt as their Common Market protections are swept away.
It is going to need a very tough Government to take decisions that will harm their own election prospects. I just cannot see it happening.
Unfortunately the Brexit process does not end on March 29, it only signals the start of a long and protracted series of negotiations. Just wait for the cries of anger as nasty bright yellow corn fed floppy skinned chickens are foist on us from the US. (US chickens ARE nasty – I can say that from personal experience), and US beef tends to be big, tender and tasteless – same as their strawberries etc.
Graham are you being influenced by the Shadowy, probably not British group (Mainstream Network) who has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on Facebook in anti-EU messages?
btw ‘clever ‘and our lazy bunch of incompetents is a contradiction in terms — the EU have nothing to worry about!
Never mind the French – strong anti-Roma/Traveller feelings can even be found in the UK, and goes back to the Middle Ages. Why I have no idea – it makes as much sense to me as witch hunting.
It is mainly pure fascist anti-Roma feeling which goes back before WWII. (around half a million were killed in the Nazi Death-camps as ‘unter-menschen’). Why they would be treated in this way beats me on a personal level but I could make the same remark about the genocide/persecution of any ethnic/religious group.
If you search for a deeper meaning it is probably partly due to an innate primitive animalistic persecution of anyone who looks or behaves differently. For example Crows and Great Apes hunt down and kill albinos of their species – something not unknown with humans either. Unfortunately the people who join right-wing fascists groups appear to be those who are more likely to let loose these primitive instincts.
For that reason alone I would go the way I first posted.
In any case although development on a Pi can be a bit kludgy, using VNC viewer makes it easy enough just to develop on any wireless attached pc and just forget the RAD aspects, If RAD was essential for pretty output (in any case hard to do on a Pi) then I’d drop back to using Lazarus within the Pi and code using VNC attached to a remote desktop.
However, tbh it is easier and more productive to use Python. OK it isn’t as snappy as compiled C but there are a lot of very useful libraries e.g. OpenCV.
It would be the compilation step that would worry me. The Pi is NOT standard Android at chip level even though it uses ARM. It can be done but the link for VS did not specifically cover it.
The problems really came when a someone with a lot of bucks bought the club or a Real Estate Developer has a significant place on the Board. Luckily the rules have recently been changed a little, but there are still a couple of clubs that are technically insolvent due to their having to pay the interest on the buy-out.
Once in that position, you should really start to worry if the value of the land is high. There used to be a minor Premier Division club called Brentwood Town until its ground was sold for housing.?
Apparently no Pi in that one although I could be wrong.
BTW – when copying Home files it is normally better to not copy the ‘hidden’ ones as these are often specific to the installation and may have some warts in it. The one exception is the Thunderbird files as it means no need to pfaff around setting up emails. I normally export the Firefox bookmarks on their own and import them to the new system.
I will also copy over my Conky setup but sometimes that does not work very well and I have to start again.
“Same reason we don’t enforces the laws that say we can send non working immigrants home after 3 moths. The burden of them few people, just isn’t worth the effort and cost. Its easier, and more to the point, cheaper to just ignore it.”
I THINK it isn’t that easy as first you need to establish beyond doubt where they came from. From what I gather it is sop for illegals to burn all the documents that would establish their origin as that makes it easier to claim persecution etc.
Second, I believe the originating country has to accept them back.
Third you cannot just stick them in a container with a stamp on it. Going back some years I was a frequent commuter between the UK and some god-forsaken places in Africa, quite often I’d get into conversation (on the way back) with the two people escorting the returnees. If the returnee was female you could pretty much state that there would be two airline tickets (one male, one female) for a single female. Quite an expensive exercise as they often had at least a 24 hour stop-over in a hotel before they could make their return flight.
[edit] without condoning fraud of any kind, people may be interested in these comparative figures from the CAB. link
For those that think UK democracy is broken beyond repair, you are not alone!
According to a Poll conducted by a Charitable Organization, nearly 70% of the voting population share that opinion.
That would certainly encourage improved performance in the others!
Thanks – the Greylings of the world will I’m sure echo those thanks!
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To my embarrassment I see I have misspelt the subject’s name. To protect the innocent Greyling and make certain the correct individual is fired, could an Admin please correct the subject name to Grayling!
As a general point, in all forms of benefit the administration is done by individuals, who, I think, are given zero latitude in the way benefits are applied. All well and good in that the front-line administrator can quite correctly pass the buck up the line. It does however need a regulatory system with a large range of built-in fail-safes that can be quickly applied from within the system,
The system needs to be capable of catering for the diversity of the population with maybe 20-30% of benefit claimants being in the bottom quartile of ability. (A surprisingly large number claim, and probably are illiterate). It also needs to include those incapable of managing any form of budget. See a pound, spend a pound (or gamble it) is often the case with such people. It also needs to be local as many cannot use computers or smart phones, they also do not have the money or capability to get to the regional centre some ten miles away.
Unfortunately the Civil Servants (and lazy Grayling types – yes Universal Credit was partly spawned by him just before the coalition.), get bored with all these exceptional cases and put together a system that looks good on paper when fully implemented and possibly actually will work OK, but has no practical way of getting off the ground (just like Grayling’s railway timetable fiasco).
Somewhere along the line some idiot then decided that there was a need to generate cash savings and thought to do so by taking this out of the money which had previously been paid in advance to claimants. In theory maybe OK but in practice totally stupid, and the direct cause of a lot of woes as people could not pay rent, buy food and were thrown on the streets.
As the ‘system’ is built to disown such problems, and has few if any mechanisms to alleviate problems, all these issues get thrown onto voluntary charitable organizations who have zero money and/or authority but are still subject to stupid Government Audits as they have nothing better to do. Is it so surprising that these volunteers are emotionally drained and leaving in droves?
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