If you impose export controls on the BCM2837 (core used by Raspberry Pi 3), you’ll just get drop-in Chinese replacements like AllWinner H616 and RockChip RK3288.

It’s not that likely they’re using Pi 4 or Pi 5 SoCs because there’s a supply crunch there (28nm and 16nm respectively and both use LPDDR4) and there’s plenty of BCM2835-BCM2837 in old stock + they use a 40nm process that’s much less crowded than the current SoC silicon market.

Anything older than BCM2837 in the Pi lineup would not have enough performance for MV.

I swear microSD is only marginally better than DVD-RW

Fuck land mines. All my homies hate land mines.

I found my AliExpress stuff to be more reliable than my Amazon stuff.

Isn’t Windows 11 majority written by AI in the past year?

It won’t stop anyone buying or importing innocuous machinery parts like 2020 aluminium extrusions or GT2 belts either. There are mature generic 3D printer designs out there that outperforms RepRap i3 bedslingers.

E.g. https://vorondesign.com/voron2.4

That just sounds like twitch without any parasocial relationships or community.

I’ve just started blocking SEO slop while using ddg on my main computer. Makes my life easier if it’s just DigitalOcean blogs rather than geeksforgeeks or linuxvox. The latter being full-on ai slop. At least DO/Vultr/whatever actually bothers with content quality because it’s their PaaS.

It does seem to be a one pump chump

Isn’t this just a bailout?

I find it quite hard to believe it would be able to detect innocuous, dual-use, off the shelf components spread out over a dozen prints.

Even US export controls can’t prevent that, only delay and cause irritation.

In most societies of recorded history, the end of human civilisation isn’t celebrated. Imma buck that trend.

• Gen Z

That future cannot come soon enough.