Posts by Wcool

Raspberry Pi supply chain loosens just in time for the holiday season

Re: Would have preferred Pi 5 announcement

I think you misunderstood me, I don't expect Pi Foundation to design a chip around the Rockwell 3588, just that the Raspberry PI seems to have a lot more competition these days for the same pricepoint as the Pi 4.

Not long ago they had the best SOC for the money. If they stay with Broadcom, I'm not aware of a good successor designed by Broadcom.

(Is that relation really that good btw? Why didn't Broadcom toss them a couple more chips considering how much goodwill and business Broadcom gets from Raspberry?)

I tried to sketch that Pi 4 will not long be the best SOC to buy even now it becomes avaliable again and for Raspberry Foundations sake I hoped they had a new design.

Would have preferred Pi 5 announcement

RP4 is getting a bit long in the tooth after 2 1/2 years

RK3588 is out since a few weeks and considerably faster for about the same price.

Beats loudspeaker silenced by Apple after $3bn buyout, report claims

Gee how difficult is it for Apple to make a compelling platform for streaming music in the home?

Surely it must be easy to beat Sonos who are good but expensive, just make a cheaper version?

Oh wait, Apple and cheaper...

Faster, more private, easier to read: My 2014 browser wishlist

Privacy

What I would also like out of the box, besides Ghostery, Noscript and Do not track, is a plugin than randomly changes a small property /feature of your browser to make it look like a different browser is at the same IP address. This to avoid identification based on your browsers footprint.

See https://panopticlick.eff.org/ for what I mean

If the browser omits for instance a random non-essential font, even if the IP address is the same it would look as if the IP could be a proxy for many different users

Acer C720 Chromebook with Haswell battery boosting goodness

Does Google know all URLs that you visit?

Just a question: when you logon to Google (mandatory at startup for Chrome), what does Google know of the user?

Does it for instance know all the URLs visited?

I do have an older Acer C7 and put Xubuntu on, it's brilliant. It easily outperforms my 4 year old laptop and for 200 USD can't fault it. I gave my tablet away..

I'm fine with this?

Stuck between a rock and a hard place?

I am not sure if this a humorous attempt by The Reg to show how silly the law can be.

Anyway, I bite: where is the option to NOT accept cookies and still continue the site?

Mind you I laud your extensive listing of what and how cookies are used. Let me reply in detail too, and I think most privacy minded people will make similar choice as me:

1 id Doubleclick ID ALWAYS BLOCK

2 sc Session Count ALWAYS BLOCK

3 c Visited Channels ALWAYS BLOCK

4 s Account Login OK but WHY a year? why not a session cookie?

5 eucookie EU Cookie Consent Useless if you can't say no

6 voted polls Voted Polls No fan but understand its use

7 v Version ALWAYS BLOCK

7 td Traffic Driver ALWAYS BLOCK

9 cid Campaign ID OK

10 forum_sort Per topic user sort order preference OK

11 sl Lite Account login OK

basically: session cookies ok, any other cookie: RUBBISH

I have changed my cookie settings for this site now.

Mint Linux freshens up web searches

Extremely pleasant search engine

DDG is my default search engine for a year now. It is not as good on serch results as Google but the features, interface and privacy policy are excellent.

A breathe of fresh air, hopefully this will lift them even more

How I built a zero energy cost, zero carbon home server

Same here

You are not alone, my Sheevaplug burnt out as well and I had nothing hanging off the USB port.

Replacement AC/DC cost me 15 pounds including shipping :(