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Yes I’m learning about my Pi 4. I got the LABISTS Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit Pro from Amazon as I needed a case, Micro HDMI Cables and an SD card. It’s now got a SanDisk Ultra Fit 64 GB USB 3.1 as the boot device and I’m wondering if I really need an M2. However, if I decide I need more storage or one ends up in a production role then that will make sense.
The 3A power supply seems to be doing the job but it’ll probably end up being PoE powered via a splitter and sit in the comms cabinet. The kit’s heatsinks and fan are doing the job and it’s silent. Might be different if it was thrashed but I don’t think that will happen.
It’s in a different league to the 3 though and if I was told all I could ever use again is a 4 I wouldn’t be crying too much. However the costs of a fully kitted out RPi are rising to meeting the NUC form factor coming down. The Gigabyte Brix Intel Celeron N4000 is going for £109 with a 128GB SSD and a kb / mouse set + £18 for 4GB ram and runs W10 quite happily.
Yes I’ll be reapplying for the blue badge, it got taken away when I had my ankle replaced.
Will have a look at PIP.
I’ve been looking at the Argon ONE M.2 Raspberry Pi 4 Case, it gets great reviews.
It also has two full-sized HDMI ports, Power Management Modes that allow for automatic booting and built-in IR support.
The bike accident doesn’t help, but no it’s the family curse, Rheumatoid Arthritis. I thought I’d dodged it, all my joint woes are Osteoarthritis and there the accident has accelerated things on one side.
However there have been other problems that seem to be OA but go away of their own accord after a day or two, or even weeks, and don’t reappear for months or longer. My right shoulder being one of them and some chest pains that aren’t anything to do with my heart or lungs – I know what they feel like.
The diagnosis came about from my eye problems, apart from long sightedness due to age they’ve been trouble free until 3 years ago when I had my first bout of Uveitis. The middle layer of tissue in the eye wall becomes inflamed and your iris becomes stuck, which is incredibly painful. They don’t know exactly what causes it but being inflammation is becoming increasingly linked to arthritis. So they did a test for the HLA-B27 gene and found it. When asked if I had lower back pain, which I have had for years, I was referred to Rheumatology.
Got a cancellation so saw them very quickly. The doctor was very thorough with hands-on manipulation and questioning but considered it probably was wear and tear and not ankylosing spondylitis. Given the damage caused by the accident that has always been the opinion of anyone I’ve seen, but he got some x-rays done of my lower spine as that would help whoever I saw next in a plan of action.
The x-rays showed chronic AS, it’s probably been going on for 25 years+, so it’s back to Rheumatology but not until April and that’s a video appointment. I need an MRI before then to assess the inflammation.
AS is incurable so it’s about managing it. I have been on pain killers for years but physio can help and medication to ease the inflammation. However due to my heart problems anything aspirin based is out so all that’s left is Anti-TNF medication. TNF is a chemical produced by cells when tissue is inflamed.
My physio mate says they are “heavy duty” and can interfere with the immune system. There are other more exotic drugs too. The point of these medications is to slow the onset and I’m way past that, so it may be I decide the cure is worse than the disease. But there’s not just my spine to consider, that may be past help but there’s all the other things, especially the Uveitis.
I can’t blame the bone docs too much for missing this, my accident was a plausible explanation for a lot of the symptoms and the physio says the average time to diagnosis of AS is 7 years. My ankle was the most pressing concern and that took 10 years to get to the replacement surgery. I think they thought that may relieve some of the other musculoskeletal issues.
It’s the tenacity of the ophthalmologists that have got me to here (they did the blood and gene tests and linked them to the back problems) and they’re frustrated that they can’t refer me directly to the services I need. Never mind, the GP did as he was asked and the Eye Hospital is following things as closely as they can.
The building work is approaching first fix, held up by asbestos. A small extension needs to be built and work starts on that any day. All the rooms are roughed out and the cabling is mostly in, done by the young sparkie who shows great promise, son of the main contractor. He’s done CCTV and alarm work before and whilst I have taken over the CCTV and door entry I have yet to steer the alarm system my way.
My cabling days are over, I have a diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis (arthritis related, my lower spine is fusing itself together amongst other things) not that I did much before. I will probably be doing a lot of the termination though and intend to build the comms cabinet. I will not being going up any ladders but I’ll be teaching the sparkie how to deal with Hikvision kit so he can use proper stuff in future, not the random junk building suppliers source.
My future lies much as my past did, in consultation and design of networks and their administration plus some hands-on PC work. I’m hoping to work with the sparkie a lot more, he has the right work ethic, and enable him to seek out and take on the larger jobs.
Rates are soaring here.
Cheap enough on E-Bay, that’s where I get them for less than a fiver. Look for ones with instant delivery.
If you need one to upgrade from Home to Pro makes sure it specifies that and there’s often a trick you need to do to get it to work even with one you get from MS (involves disconnecting from the net, putting in a generic key then rebooting). Upgrades take less than 5 mins.
Well there’ll be a massive tax black hole to fill and our current method of taxation is based on usage. The more petrol you buy the more tax you pay. Seems fair enough to me.
If they provide some sort of incentive, as they did with unleaded, as soon as the balance tips they will remove the incentive anyway.
The move to electric vehicles is to save the planet not make travelling cheaper.
You want AMD’s StoreMI
B550 coming in Q3 so might not be available just now. I installed the previous version on the same bundle you’ve got and it works well. Backup apps don’t seem to understand what’s going on though so I don’t do “system” or o/s backups and just stick to file backups.
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Meant to have said the Amazon’s choice is always a good bet. In this case for 128GB it’s an Integral Class 10 for £13.95. There are some San Disk with faster speeds for a couple of quid more, but if it’s for putting in a phone or camera you’ll not notice the difference.
I would avoid them, the brand is “Genericca”. Probably fake.
I was going to say that would start in legacy mode.
I’ve had to revisit some older PCs recently from the time when we were switching over from MBR to GPT and all that old way of doing things. What a PITA, I’m amazed I got anything to boot. Things really are a lot easier these days, it’s almost plug and play :good:
Yes lots of work still to do. It’s not just the charging points it’s what feeds them too. The whole power distribution infrastructure needs a lot of work doing to it and it’s not going to be cheap.
Bob seems back to himself as far as posting on FB goes, but I think he’s been through it a bit this time.
Outsourcing is done to cut costs, end of.
Interesting snippet later in the article, the Cabinet Office has banned IT Projects of >£100 million. Seems like a logical move but the law of unintended consequences leads to moves like this, contracts being extended for systems in desperate need of an upgrade.
Even the clothing is carefully stage managed as is the choice of exit door. Like Trump and all other populists they are just dogs chasing bicycles. When they get what they want they are incapable of doing anything meaningful with it. The last thing you do is find anyone capable of riding the thing, indeed you make sure they are as far away as possible, you just invite the other dogs around to piss all over the tyres.
So now Boris’s girlfriend runs the country?
The Wraith Prism cooler is really good, you shouldn’t need anything more. One of the reasons for using the liquid cooler in the bling build was for the looks more than needing better cooling. It’s the graphics card that will likely cause any heat issues.
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