Thomas McKahan

Programmer, Collector, Hobbyist, B.S EE
are my own.

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

But.... Why?

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Insanity level: ✅ just right

Coreforge is at it again, repurposing an old AMD B350 motherboard (sans CPU) as a Raspberry Pi PCIe breakout board: https://t.co/WWhiTAY4k0

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

No joke the the most nerve wracking thing I've seen on @styropyro_ YouTube is his just casually waving around a rare earth hockey puck strong enough to turn his bones to paste if he got caught in a steel doorframe 🤣.

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

@librecomputer That board looks cool, let's hope this blows over reasonably soon

[Libre Computer @librecomputer]

If you want to 3D print your own case for Alta, Solitude, or Sweet Potato, Dudemeister designed model for a vented 3D case. Find it here: https://t.co/kTtI02AAdN

[Libre Computer @librecomputer]

Das Frite

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

@librecomputer

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

I was about to sit down and work on porting some RPi code for RadonEye BLE to ESPHome to fix the lack of support for the V2 model I have, but someone was already on it: https://t.co/kMU7CTHraz

Can't wait for it to get merged into @esphome_ so I don't have to do special builds.

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

This is always the popular rally cry for people who don't actually *use* Linux. Show me your 4 GB Linux desktop with GPU accelerated desktop and tell me how fast it is. I have ~30 such ARM devices at my disposal and no, they are not even close to a 16 GB Windows box in capability

[Mauna Linux @MaunaLinux]

#Linux is the best ever!

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

Which VIM is which? I have to give them a ton of credit for sticking to a form factor so well that 3 generations of board can use the same case and heat sink. The rest of the SBC industry needs to pay attention. @khadas_official

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

One more for tonight, I have stuck an esphome yaml for the sequent Microsystems rtd-hat in GitHub: https://t.co/Kd8Xr5TLbN

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

@esphome_ media player on Cricket ESP32 and @adafruit speaker bonnet was _too_ easy. This will also work with the Obsidian ESP32 if you bought one, I'm hoping to have some cricket and "Obsidian Lite" boards available on Tindie soon

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

The Amazon Echo Show 5 sounds like a bowl of mashed potatoes decided they should become a speaker.

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

@davepl1968 My Model 70 with 486 above board upgrade only ran the finest Windows For Workgroups 3.11.

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

@pepijndevos Whoa. I have a Shark IQ with lidar, but no cameras. So far it hasn't expanded my house 😂

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

Apparently @Microsoft is doing their best to look like amateur hour: https://t.co/xPRyaj0rw8

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

@geerlingguy I want to know how much they paid a marketing team to simply copy/paste iPhone model naming

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

@pepijndevos I haven't verified it yet 🫣

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

@pepijndevos Ha, I see you were losing your mind over locating that PCIe slot too. I started measuring a motherboard ☠️

[Thomas McKahan @TonyMac_32]

@pepijndevos Single lane PCIe in particular. The CM4 (and by extension compatibles) also had only 1x USB 2.0. the CM5 adds USB3, but still only single lane PCIe, so for a general purpose machine you have to make hard choices (NVMe or a general purpose PCIe slot, etc)