You’re better off with a Beaglebone if you want GPIO. The Raspberry Pi doesn’t have any analog pins, for one thing.

Maybe a game show!

Tbh I generally prefer that robot voices actually sound like robots. I don’t want human sounding TTS since I don’t like anthropomorphized machines. So I’d stay with something low tech.

He could have picked Helen of Troy, the face that booted 1000 phones…

It’s possible but I haven’t felt the need, and it’s another thing that can go wrong. If I think my key may have been compromised I have much bigger problems. I should assume my whole machine is pwned and trojan’d, so I should replace the disk and reinstall everything.

I can see some benefit in using a special token to hold the key instead of just generating it on my laptop. One of these days.

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It is fitting that the new gold-plated Epstein class warships are being announced at Mar-a-Lago. What a mighty Navy we shall have.

I’m sure it’s been scraped plenty of times by AI companies who are doing way more damage.

Are you running a planet-wide server farm from your 20 year old key or what? Just a few machines? If you want to regenerate your key and fix the knownhosts files and it’s not too much hassle, then go ahead and do it. Do something else later if you want something fancier. Yes there are some hardware key encaapsulation approaches possible, some people like to use jump hosts as gateways (the remote hosts firewall block access to anything but the jump host) etc. Also people rely in part on virtual LAN security in their data centers or ISP’s.

If it’s just a few personal machines you’re probably overthinking this. I just don’t store secret keys on any remote machines, but use ssh-keygen on my laptop and ssh -A from there.

Do you think they are compromised? Generally you have to invalidate the public keys in any .ssh_hosts file that accepts them, and create new ones instead. I generally install .ssh_hosts on remote machines using an ansible playbook. I don’t have any automation to cycle them but I guess I would also do that with ansible if I thought it were needed.

Ansible may be old school by now, but it works for me. Maybe the cool kids are using something newer now. I want to look into nix or guix one of these days.

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The G Play 2024 didn’t have 5g and people say that’s significant. I got the G Stylus 2023 which was $250 at the time, so I’d consider it midrange. It’s fine, I don’t need a fancier phone. NTN (non terrestrial network i.e. satellite) text comms is the next interesting feature. Currently only in flagships so I can wait for it to reach budget phones.

Person rebuilds an N900 to use a battery eliminator and replace the micro usb port with USB-C, and then sets it up as a media player. Ok but why bother?

It’s still useless as a phone, at least in the US, because the 3G network is dead. Sigh. Its UI was also hopelessly slow, as was the later N9’s.

I’ve bought most of mine on craiglist but either way you sort of have to know what you’re doing. I’d say just sort by price and scroll through the results in the range you want to pay. You might also filter on “within 25 miles” or whatever, and get a unit that you can pick up in person. Or at least, try to talk to the person on the phone to get a sense that they know what it is that they are selling.

Thinkpads forum is still around and has a forsale section. It has slowed down but is still active:

https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewforum.php?f=11

I’ve bought stuff from there in the distant past.

My sister has a 13 inch ipad and it’s a nice size, 14" should be fine. I have some doubts about the big Lenovo though. My main interest is reading full page PDFs so anything less than 14" will be annoying. Ok I’ll give it more thought. Laptop prices are going to go up because of the dram shortage too. Sigh.

Thanks, it is kind of intriguing though I keep telling myself to just use normal Linux stuff instead of Android. I’d want the 14 inch one which is around $300. Is there any trouble installing F-droid and apps from there?

Alternatives I’m thinking of include Lenovo Yoga laptop (16 inch) and a Raspberry Pi thing with an HDMI monitor (that would be plug-in only but I mostly read at home).

$25 is too much for a used 1gb pi 3. A new pi 5 with 1gb is $45 and way better. But, most ppl start with a vps.

I see, yeah there is something about it in the blurb. How do you like the tablet? Is it responsive? Is it full of Android bloatware? Do you know if it is rootable?

I see there is a 14 inch version that’s about $300 and that starts to get interesting. It’s not “2nd gen” though. And, I had thought of TCL as a lower tier manufacturer with quality issues, but I hadn’t looked into it much.

I like that the tablet has an SD (probably microSD) slot. Don’t like that there’s no headphone jack. There’s plenty of space in those things compared to a phone.

If anyone was wondering: https://www.tcl.com/us/en/products/mobile/tcl-tab/nxtpaper-11-gen2

11 inch display with 60 hz refresh, but it sounds like regular lcd rather than e-ink? It has an 8000mah battery that it says can run the tablet through a full day, so that’s nothing like an epaper tablet. It sounds more like a drawing tablet, as it has a pressure sensitive pen.

Anyway, I’ve been using Librera FD for reading epubs on Android. Its blurb mentions annotations but I’ve never tried that feature.

I have an Inkplate 10 e-paper tablet but haven’t been using it.

I didn’t realize Hetzner had referral codes. I see https://www.hetzner.com/legal/referrals and think I qualify but am not sure. I’ll see what I can do.

Yes Hetzner has virtual networks. I don’t know how similar they are to AWS or GCP. You should probably check the docs before signing up

Also for cheap processing power, you’re better off with an auction dedi than with their cloud stuff. See hetzner.com/sb . But, I think the referral codes don’t work for that. Also, all the dedi hardware is in EU. US stuff is cloud only.

Added: ok, I have a referral link and will PM it to you.

At minimum there should be a good description of what the video is about, with no clickbait.