Not sure about this particular instance. LTT got a video taken down by community guidelines violation just the other day, and they are much bigger than Jeff.
This is so Cool! A 99 cents Chip can do so many things. I am using it currently for Automatic Garden Monitoring system[1]. I never realized this small chip can do big things. Very Impressive.
You might want to grab a capacitive soil moisture sensor btw because those two pin ones almost always corrode after some time, especially with more power going through them
Indeed they are not meant to be powered all the time - only for brief moments when taking a reading. Unless your purpose is to electrolyze your garden.
Which is why when many advocate for pre-historic embedded development practices it just shows being out of touch how many cheap options are now 90's like hardware, with more capabilities than Amiga/Atari/PC/Mac had a their disposal on a stamp size CPU.
I moved to Windows after 5 years of Mac this month. Because I knew I will be working from home, decided to build a good workstation (Thank you Ryzen ) and I Couldn't agree more WSL is very helpful for people who like windows UI and functionalities of Linux. There are few quirks but it works great.
My Linux setup is usually like this, but inside out. When I need Windows functions (which is not often), I fire up a VM (either with VirtualBox or KVM). WSL makes Windows useful for Linux development (my software will run on Linux, not Windows), but the rest of Windows is usually a bit of a pain.
I usually find the text less readable on Windows than it's on Linux or a Mac. Not sure it's an issue with Edge, my monitor's Gamma or what, but it just looks better on Linux (and perfect on a Mac).
I've tried both ways there too; at least a few years ago (may be different now) running windows as a HOST worked way better for me since Linux in a VM was way more well behaved than Windows would be.
Curious what kinds of problems you used to run into here that made you give up on Windows guest/Linux host. I've been running my daily driver that way for the past 3 months and haven't hit any issues aside from 2 nits:
- Windows 10 basically requires an SSD to get reasonable responsiveness. You could maybe get away with putting a disk image on an SSD, but for serious use it's best to dedicate a whole disk or partition to it.
- QEMU's default display adapter started "leaking" pending IO requests at one point, which grinds the VM from full speed to a halt over the course of an hour or so. I ended up disabling the display adapter and moving to just RDP, which is basically an even trade since the RDP client can do everything the SPICE client can.
It was probably closer to 8 years ago, so SSD's weren't really available. Given the time I really don't remember the specifics but it was a work-from-home job so we did a lot of video conferencing pre-Zoom, and used Skype and other tools a lot. IIRC, the windows apps we used didn't like not being close to the video hardware.
Running a Linux VM was pretty friction-free, and I could use all the company mandated tools that had to be run in Windows simultaneously without performance issues. WIth a windows guest, I wouldn't run it unless I needed one of those tools, but that required a fairly long spin-up time.
Like I said... almost a decade ago so they probably aren't problems now. I'm running Linux native right now, but again for the ease of corporate support, I may go with Windows + WSL2 for my next refresh.
> and used Skype and other tools a lot. IIRC, the windows apps we used didn't like not being close to the video hardware.
Indeed. I used to keep a Windows box for the smartcard reader bureaucratic obligations with the Brazilian government that I never managed to accurately emulate on VMs.
This is true. I have found text not so "crisp" and readable on windows compared to MAC. I have an LG Ultrawide monitor and used both Mac and Windows with it, there is a difference in the sharpness.
I host my websites on DO. Their UI and API is really cool. Linode and Scaleway both lost my data. DO is far more reliable than Linode and scale way. It's always good to have options to choose from. I hope they succeed.
Companies like Netlify, Zeit and Heroku are also doing good but I don't see any Enterprise applications for such services.
One thing I especially like about DO is that they are not stagnant in terms of features. They continuously keep adding new features.
I use Notion too. I have added Notion Webclipper extension to all my browsers on, to save link I have created lists based on category i.e study, tech, life, etc. While bookmarking I just add the link to the respective category. On Phone, Notion has this feature to share a link to the app to save the bookmark. Before this, I used Chrome Bookmark manager. A pocket is a good tool too but I am fed up with having an individual app for every use case(bookmarking, todo, calendar). Notion is one good service with all the features that I need as a student, but their Andriod UI suck. You can hit them up on twitter and request the feature to add tags.
Recently I read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse quite an interesting book. In the book he tried to convey Knowledge is transferable, wisdom is not. Wisdom can only be gained from experience. The existence of buddha is debateable but literature has some good and relatable lessons we can learn.
This is a hell of a book, I read it last month and found it pretty powerful.
The main message that I got from it was that every road or path that people take in life is valid, everyone is different and have their own preferences and tastes and consecutively, not because you find the other paths "worse" or less worthy than yours it indeed means that they are, neither that those people are inferior to you.
Book should be read by way more people, specially by high arrogant ones who put down on others.
I found the book to have a very Western perspective of things. I am from India and could not relate very well to it considering it has good reviews. The book also has very dark undertones to it. It has this very "Return of the prodigal son" feel to it.
I studied that book for my literature course in high school. That book is a joke. It tried to imitate the story of the buddha but twisted it to fit a western narrative. Author did himself a great disservice writing it. Would have been better off if he tried to just create something original instead.
It's better to have a leader who has an understanding of how things work rather than electing a leader who pretends to know everything and doesn't think global warming is real.
