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The OrangePis have much better IO (with the exception of the OrangePi+ 2, which is a bad buy), with each USB port being direct wired & capable of 40MB/s, and an onboard 100mbps PHY. Comparatively, the Raspi shoves all that over 1 USB port, ethernet included, so 4 to 5MB/s is about the best your gonna get with it.

Yeah, can vouch for Owncloud (although I've moved to the NextCloud fork), its a convenient replacement for Dropbox, just thrown an OrangePi Zero ($7), a JMS567 USB 3.0 to Sata adapter ($3) and any old HDD and you've got yourself a libre Dropbox that uses just a few watts and works consistently on all platforms.

Note that the Wifi drivers aren't libre, but besides that everything else on the OrangePi Zero, from audio to ethernet is in kernel 4.10 under GPLv2.

Perhaps that is due to a lack of GPU/CPU grunt? The HTC Vive is a compelling experience from my testing, as compared to the Oculus dev kit I tried. Just so immersive with being able to walk around, grab things, go for a hike, etc. Perhaps its having 25% pixels as compared to the Playstation VR that gets it there.

Except job wise, most of those areas have recovered, albeit with service industry jobs replacing industrial, but those jobs as they return to the US are nearly fully automated.

If Trump can stop kicking Boeing and others in the teeth we might even retain those jobs in the industrial sector that have remained thus far. Trump blowing up contracts Boeing has with airlines overseas bodes poorly for that though.

I predict we'll see another bubble since Trump removed most of the financial restrictions put in place by Dodd-Frank, lining us up for another 2007 bubble collapse all over again. Go Trump!

The scope for Sound Transit 3 is too small, primarily due to our Legislature kneecapping Sound Transit's taxing authority, and sub-area equity forcing Sound Transit to not build high ridership lines like what was proposed along the 44's route (which would have been the 2nd highest ridership line in the region, after Ballard to Downtown).

The appetite is definitely there, we can't build or zone our way out of traffic, and short of Trump killing Microsoft and Amazon like he did Boeing recently (with the spate of canceled 777 contracts and all), the city will keep growing.

Uhh, we just approved $54 Billion for Sound Transit 3, which adds 62 miles of rail spanning from Everett to Tacoma, so no, light rail isn't dirt cheap. It is very effective at moving people cheaply though, and is a big economic boon to this city.

Going from Capital Hill to UW in under 5 minutes on the train, versus a 10 to 20 minute drive is amazing!

Ah, there it is. The comments on Guru3D also had a link to wccftech with similar comments, but they look to have censored it, its as though Guru3D is fighting showing any sources.

Much better article over at wccftech: http://wccftech.com/intel-playing-dirty-undercut-amd-ryzen/

Yeah, but I'd be surprised if Charlie didn't squawk about it, when it comes to vendor demands, I just don't see him going silently into the night if Intel asked him to benchmark it in a certain manner.

Edit: Charlie did complain: http://wccftech.com/intel-playing-dirty-undercut-amd-ryzen/

I know, like, if they wanna reference SA, just link to where you saw it over there or in their forums, instead of spreading rumors...

Uhh, where are these claims on SemiAccurate's site? I don't see jack from Charlie or Tom over at SA in regards to Intel demanding they do things a certain way, the only thing of note I see is that Intel appears to have started talking to them after nearly a year long drought, then again Intel did cull their entire PR/Marketing staff right around when that drought started.

http://semiaccurate.com/2017/02/20/intel-launch-atom-xeon-d-...

> 1. VR costs a lot

Yep, it costs $2k minimum currently for decent VR, its like buying a computer in the 1990s. The cost to do VR will decrease as hardware improves and software is rewritten for better APIs like Vulkan that are more efficient.

> 2. The technology needs to be better (higher resolution)

Sure, on the low end Samsung VR and others could use a resolution bump (mainly GPU constrained there currently), but room scale VR with the Vive is high res enough that it is acceptable and fully immersive in most cases.

> 3. There's not a lot of VR content available yet.

Definitely, more content and a broader ecosystem would be great. But today you can go into a Microsoft store and try VR and have a great experience, and there are quite a few high quality, immersive games that you can blow 10+hrs playing.

Plus, 25% of the oil produced by Saudi Aramco is consumed domestically at very low prices, as the population of the KSA continues to grow this is apt to increase.

Yeah, as of yet Uber is not able to turn a profit, and is surviving on massive subsidies. Short of self driving cars, this is unlikely to change.

Sony is one of the few Android vendors that mainlines the device drivers for their hardware, so you can reasonably build the newest AOSP version and go to 7.1 if you feel the inclination.

I own a few Omnitiks, and they are a total PITA to work with, so no, definitely not going with Mikrotik.

Eh, the ZTE MF96's will go a few months between reboots, and its hard to get anywhere near their price point with mini-PCIe, automating management of them would likely make more sense IMO.

Wrt OpenWRT being aged, not too worried there, I'm still running Debian Jessie over here :P

Lol, don't worry about it.

PayPal will almost assuredly escape unscathed, Peter Thiel pulling up the ladder after him so others cannot be successful was what I was getting at there.

Pretty much, most of the workers rights gains made by Cesar Chavez have been rolled back, hence why workers are forced to shit in the fields (due to a lack of places to do the needful), thus causing e coli and other outbreaks. Same thing has happened in the meat packing industry, worker protections have been gutted, and conditions there are similar to those described in The Jungle, a book which helped cause that industry to unionize and fight for safe & sanitary working conditions.

Up in Canada, they straight up import workers for low end jobs, hence why at Tim Hortons up north, you will rarely if ever see a native Canadian, its nearly entirely Asians, cause they are there on worker visas. The Canadian Govt has decided their workforce should be doing something better than making coffee or baking donuts, which isn't the worst idea when properly implemented.

In reading this, I see that there will no longer be any groups that are allowed to remain in the US based on prosecutor discretion (eg: Dreamers, kids/babies who were raised here will be deported), 10,000 more officers will be hired, and they plan to deputize more local police departments to deport people without Customs & Border Protection involvement.

About the only major screwup here for effective mass deportations is the Trump administration is hiring too few people to round up these people. Back in the 1940s when we were rounding up Japanese to send to concentration camps, it took way more manpower to effectively round up that population to send them to squalid, disease filled camps we sent them to, and there weren't 6 million to be rounded up either.

Hopefully this will get more Americans politically active at the very least, as when the food is rotting in the fields due to a lack of farm hands, that is when we will see something similar to what is happening with Obamacare and Republican voters right now.

So, why does anyone pay attention to the truly awful human being known as Peter Thiel? Between his plots to destroy the infrastructure that allowed PayPal and Y Combinator to be built, and his active attempts to rip away rights from other LGBT people, of which he is one, it seems like a poor idea to pay this person any mind.

Any way non-Indian businesses can use your site without an Indian number and state/city? I could probably get an Indian number (though it would be inconvenient), but I'm not picky about location.

I think your post technically qualifies as karma whoring? :P

I've got a few dozen businesses with PFSense with LTE backup, and at this point I'm looking for alternatives. I've considered IPFire, and I've looked at VyOS, Untangle, and OPNSense, but I just recently realized I completely overlooked OpenWRT, which I already happen to have many positive experiences with.

Long term I'm thinking I'll move things over to ARM/MIPS based routers running OpenWRT, and where needed I'll use x86_64 boxes with OpenWRT (eg: Tor Relay at home) as when things break on OpenWRT, its a lot less bad than on BSD.

In particular, I've had issues with BSD taking forever to boot (waited 4hrs at 3am once), deciding it needed an Intel NIC firmware when it had no Intel NICs, thus causing an outage while I drove down there with a WNR2000v3 running OpenWRT, and LTE backup interface handling being poor, whereby the cellular connection will go out (and we'll send a command to the SOAP API on the modem to reconnect), but PFSense needs to cycle the interface for some reason when it already has an internal IP from the modem. Combine that with having to walk customers through any one of these scenarios every few months over the phone, and its a joyous situation.

Yeah, AMD can't just bump up the release by a quarter, they're on a fixed timeline as they have to wait on TSMC & Global Foundries to turn their designs into silicon (4 months end to end).

I think its a perspective issue when looking at market opportunities, having worked with a few dozen older Vietnamese immigrant business owners who came here at after highschool, they tend to learn a skillset and buy a business in that vertical and stick with it, operating it from rote memory with baseline rules (sell at 25% above cost) that keep them moderately profitable, but prevent them from ever having the scale or capital of Uwajimaya or other businesses like Walmart that know how to merchandise and sell more items due to placement in store and similar tactics.

Then you have the 1st generation or those like yourself who went to middle school & highschool stateside and soaked up some American culture, maybe learned some critical thinking skills or had to take a business course or two, and this group either wants absolutely nothing to do with the family business or small businesses in general, or they end up taking over the family business or starting their own to varying degrees of success, but using much different tactics that often net better results.

She definitely has skeletons in her closet, ranging from past litigation to her husband, and isn't a great icon for women in male dominated fields.

That being said, her short time running reddit and what happened after she left (a flood of subreddit deletions, founders retaking control of the site only to ignore the major issues & laugh at her demise) shouldn't reflect on her. The founders of reddit used her as a sacrificial lamb to create an uproar resulting in her removal, that then gave them cover to ban a bunch of subreddits.

I still hope that there will be a large split, similar to /r/Seattle vs /r/SeattleWA, whereby a successor to reddit takes the lions share of the active posters and commenters, though I don't see that happening soon sadly.

That is both added cost and your still missing cooling the underside of the SOC. Most people will not take steps like that, so you end up with boards clocked at 900mhz instead of 1200mhz cause groups like Armbian don't want to burn up the SOC on users boards that don't have a heatsink.

Other bad moves are dumping 1.3v or 1.4v into the SOC and not allowing the user to adjust that voltage, cause then the board is just generating heat needlessly instead of running at 1.1v or so.

Go grab Armbian for your Pine64, its the least worst thing you can put on it. The Pine64 itself is a terrible board, its limited to 1 USB port, the light on it doesn't tell the user whether the OS actually booted, and the microUSB connector allows people to use crap cables that don't provide enough power for it to boot, but provide enough power for the stupid LED to come on.

You could likely build a working image running kernel 4.10, Armbian has a build system for that or you can just use qemu-debootstrap.

https://www.armbian.com/pine64/

The OrangePi PC2 has directly wired USB ports for all four ports (3 normal USB, 1 microUSB OTG, same as Opi PC), but as far as everyone says, there is no 10 bit support for the H3 or H5. 8 bit works though :P

https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1762-new-oranges-w...