Wo-we's AMD A9 miniPC is $79 USD new, has 8GB RAM, a 128GB M.2, and a Win10 license. I've been running one as a geostationary satellite ground station for close to a year now and it's great! It also doesn't have the heating issues that the Raspberry Pi 3+ I replaced it with did.
https://www.wo-we.com/collections/mini-pc
While this is true, the Flipper Zero doesn't have wifi radios or an SDR that can transmit in the wifi frequency ranges. OOB it's impossible to jam wifi with with the Flipper.
I was diagnosed with severe spinal stenosis last year and I've found a combination of walking daily and working at a sit/stand desk in the standing position has helped me immensely. Our backs are designed to be under load and if you sit all day it will only make things worse.
6 days ago here in Australia a local army lawyer (David McBride) was given a 5 year 8 month stint for leaking classified documents. The documentation was around Australian SAS soldiers committing war crimes in Afghanistan. Given they're all still free and the conventional wisdom here is that McBride was made an example of to ensure the US didn't think Australia was soft on leakers; I don't think Assange's chances of freedom are good.
Given the somewhat flaky nature of RPi's in terms of heat/load issues, and combined with the fact that they're quite slow I completely bypass them these days for cheap AMD miniPCs (x64). The Wo-We AMD Excavator A9-9400 unit has 8GB DDR4, a 128GB M2 drive, wifi, USB3, etc for $98USD. Despite how ugly it is it's still very good performance wise.
https://www.wo-we.com/collections/mini-pc/products/mini-pc-a...
a lot of people need the rpi to be something different than a media center that gets stuffed somewhere. 90% of the rpis I have at home are interfacing with something via pins, not just the usb hub. if I want to do something like that with the amd option then i'm back to some kind of usb device mated to that and another software layer that'll be undoubtedly more poorly supported than the rpi equivalent.
for something like a nas or media center though I absolutely agree with you.
Right, for me the RPi is the system to hook a breadboard up to or some other hardware if I don't want to drop down to a raw microprocessor or an audrino-like and don't need anything faster than what an OS provides.
I think there is a divide in the RPI community between electonic enthusiasts and those who just need a small portable PC (media center, game cabinet, NAS/server/etc)
No but with the raspberry you're not there without a power supply, case, cooling and storage.
Add them up and a Quad-Core N100 becomes equivalent. Here they're on Amazon for 180€ with 16GB ram and 512 GB storage. And cheaper options with less storage and ram (usually coupled with the sightly slower N95 chip)
It's not a pi and if you want to integrate it into electronics a pi is much better but for the "small mini server" usecase I don't see the benefit of going for a pi anymore.
The Optus outage was in the order of 8-9 hours and was a core network fault off the back of a bodged upgrade rolled out in the middle of the night. It's completely unrelated to China, the United States, or geopolitics in general. Optus has laid off a lot of engineers since Covid and those decisions are starting to have knock on effects.
> ...and expected Australian imports to come flooding back in but almost nobody bit that hook due to the amount of time and money export companies had spent arranging relationships with other countries instead of China in the wake of the ban.
Do you have a source for this? I feel it's very generalised and doesn't take into account the individual industries.
Take Australian red wine for instance, domestic producers haven't found a new export market to take the volume China did. It's negatively impacted the industry significantly and I'm quite certain once Australian wine producers can gain non-tariffed access to the Chinese market again the oceans of red will once again flow.
This is what I based my original take off of, which then led to some independent research on the topic over the course of the week. Interestingly enough the article discusses the wine exports as you have mentioned as well.
I kinda think if you want honest appraisals of the Australia/China relationship you'd probably want to look at domestic Australia sources when compared to the wsj.
In all transparency no, it wouldn’t load then and it still won’t now for some reason. Despite that it seems that the previous Australian ambassador believes that the relationship will remain strong between the two countries, I don’t doubt that.
But you can’t deny that there is probably some lasting damage if not with financials then at the very least with reputation for these private companies that now find themselves in some awkward positions with suppliers and import/export regulations.
Feel free to summarize the video if you’d like I don’t have a pessimistic outlook on the whole thing, I just think that China has their fingers in too many pies right now if you catch my drift.
Basically Australia has balanced national security via FVEY/US backing with a huge economic upswing delivered off the back of China's rise globally for a couple decades now. Australia is effectively a parasitic passenger on the back of China from an economic growth perspective.
When ScoMo called for the Covid investigation back in 2020, China responded with a raft of tariffs which seemed designed to incur maximum political pain for domestic Australian politicians. And while some industries found new markets for their products, others were left holding the bag domestically. Wine and rock lobsters are good examples of this.*
And while I do acknowledge that the relationships have been damaged, I also recognise these specific industries have been taking an absolute bath financially from this now gone export market. Australian businesses have bore the financial brunt of these decisions, not the Chinese.
Australians have experience logistically with the Chinese market, contacts on the ground, and the desire to move product that historically has sold very well into that market. And when faced with continued financial pain due to a lack new markets being developed (come to find out that's quite hard for some things like wine and lobster) I suspect these industries will welcome the return of exports to China with open arms, primarily as they're probably on life support as I type this and desperately need those free cash flows for solvency.
* I live in Perth, Western Australia, safe to say "we've" been talking about this issue pretty much since the tariffs were announced
Greetings from the US, happy to hear from someone who has boots on the ground and something valuable to offer the discussion. I didn’t think my original comment would spiral into all this I just wanted to have discussions like the one we’re having know and gain some more insight on the situation as a whole.
I would be interested to see some economic figures on the list 3 years for these industries as I’m sure the initial hit did not feel good but has there been momentum for new countries that are importing these goods? We all know China pays a premium and takes in some serious tonnage but will working with these other countries eventually match that prosperity? If not directly, then indirectly by helping industry boom across new countries?
Genuinely curious on your thoughts, I’m more talking about raw iron ore, coal, etc. here but it would be nice if there could be the development of a middle class in India or Vietnam for example that enjoyed fine Australian lobster and wine on the regular.
The raw materials are lifeblood to China and not easily replaced, they are inputs to Chinese industry and generate wealth for China after processing, sale and export in addition to providing infrastructure for growth.
The fancy goods for the chinese middle class is not a small market either; demographically China now has a middle class with disposable income that is larger than the entire population (all classes) of the USofA.
This is not the Red China the McCarthy era foaming anti communists warned us about, this is a country within another country that wants fine fibre merino wool suits, ethical cotton, nearly organic wheat, hand massaged beef, etc.
As much as the Xi faction enjoyed dropping the hammer on fine goods from Australia as payback for ScoMo rushing in with ill considerd comments from his National Party cheer squad they also faced some push back at home from disgruntled chinese consumers.
The demand is still there for the fine goods, once the political gates drop a little the spice will flow again.
The growth of the middle class in China has been staggering over the last 15 years or so and I do agree with your statements as a whole, but how do you think the looming recession especially with the housing and development industry of China will pair with a middle class that, as all middle classes do, will bear the brunt of this load. This is a fairly new middle class system which is in my opinion built upon a fragile foundation. China has curated every aspect of their economy to create such a class based on assumptions that are now beginning to fault as growth slows to a halt and the economy begins to suffer. I think that upper middle class luxuries, while still in demand, will not return to the former glory of pre-2020 for quite a while for this reason.
