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@em_7dice +9001%

The only issues I had on #Linux fit on one hand and are solely the manufacturers being dicks:

#gma500#poulsbo#us15w

#Drivers arriving and departing from #Glastonbury #Festival were subjected to #ANPR #surveillance from #AvonAndSomerset #Police and private motor #insurance companies checking for valid policies! 21 vehicles were seized for insurance offences. This is on top of whatever controls the old bill and other authorities were doing for DUI, taxi licensing etc (and it seems quite a lot of this happens around the Festival grounds nowadays!)

#driving #RoadSafety #UK

mib.org.uk/media-centre/news/2

F1 live British Grand Prix: Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen on the front row at Silverstone

1m agoSun 6 Jul 2025 at 1:24pm Drivers are on track and rain is falling again The drivers…
#UnitedKingdom #UK #Europe #EU #ABCSport #charlesleclerc #constructors'championship #drivers'championship #f1 #Ferrari #Fórmula1 #GeorgeRussell #GrandPrix #GreatBritain #LandoNorris #LewisHamilton #MaxVerstappen #McLaren #mercedes #oscarpiastri #RedBull #Sport
europesays.com/2222565/

Many Uber drivers are earning “substantially less” an hour since the ride hailing app introduced a “dynamic pricing” algorithm in 2023 that coincided with the company taking a significantly higher share of fares

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithmBy Simon Goodley

Thanks to @geerlingguy for addressing the elephant in the room.

@RaspberryPi dominates the #SBC market because they know how to write #documentation and build #drivers that get accepted into #mainline #Linux kernel.

  • The best specs and hardware is useless if it needs intimate knowledge on how to roll one's own kernel. And oftentimes one doesn't even get proper drivers and reproduceable build instructions but just some "vomited" out bootable images to dd onto a microSD!

That's why my #BananPi Zero M2 is still unused to this day: It's way too inconvenient and whilst I do want to support it someday, it's just not a good start when the 1st #RasperryPi's documentation to this day is still the bare minimum and vendors can't be assed to do that.

  • The only reason #amd64-based #SBC|s don't have the same issues as #arm64 is because #BIOS & #UEFI-boot alongside the way #hardware is initialized make it trivial to make it "go brrrr..."
#amd64#arm64#bios