Pi News 86. Another great month for Raspberry Pi5. Unrivalled SBC

Just noticed that the robot boys left hand is not on the handlebars. Maybe if he could give a thumbs up sign with it? Otherwise, a great screen. Based on your example, I tried asking Copilot to create some screens as well, and I am impressed with the creativity.

the converter, for putting in regular pci-e cards… people that use pi's for cnc, or would, sometimes find parallel ports a cost effective solution… i do. got a startech parallel serial card, it's pci-ex1, just waiting to finish my new machine, the old one uses grbl.

So cool seeing Dosbian for the Raspberry Pi 5!!

It's so trippy coming from Bideford, and realising you're near Barnstaple! So funny! Always thought you were Manchester way…

Leepspvideo Please share that desktop background I love it!

I owned an Amiga, I got mine from a Executive Officer who was fired from Commodore, it was the top of the line model (was that the 1000? or 2000?) with every hardware option installed including third party for 300 dollars, he was asking 500 and at the time I think it sold for over $1,000 or 2,000 without the added on features … I recall tossing out TWO 55 gallon trash can filled with 3.5 discs a few years after giving the Amiga away to a friend. …about three years later I was into PCs. Soon I was cutting up & drilling fan holes into cases to build mods, I remember having one of the first nvidia video cards & put in the freezer to cool down the glued (thermal epoxy) on the aluminum heat sync so I could twist pop it off so I could replace it with a copper heat sync with an integrated fan, & replaced the timing crystal & soldered on video ram chips piggybacked style to double the vram … worked great but only half of the games would still work with the mods. Then got into water cooling my PC about the time the Intel Celeron chip came out, remember having a dual Celeron motherboard.

I had my first job in 6th grade in a TV/Radio repair shop, yup actually doing the repairs on the equipment with a soldering iron and a schematic using the different meters to check what went bad & fixing them, only did this for two years & got a gig doing installations of home and small business alarm systems and I was making 100 to $150 a day after school and 200 to 250, 300 a day on the weekends. It was all under the table & I was flushed with cash and I couldn't spend any of it, none of my friends had any money to speak of, maybe $10 or 20 bucks a week being paperboys or dishwashers and screw them if I'm gonna pay their way so I just saved it, but if any of my social cliques were doing anything I'd join them, I went to every rock concerts in Philadelphia & NYC, I lived in Philly at the time, and the R7 local commuter train ran to NYC & the end of that line dropped you off under Madison Square Garden that worked out perfectly, it was only 14 dollars round trip. Madison Square Garden is next to Time Square & NYC's hockey arena where they had all their big rock concerts, also did a good amount of clubbing in NYC. Living in Philly felt like it closed at sunset, but being able to take a date for a night on the town in NYC always blew their socks off… NYC never sleeps is very true.

By the time I was a Junior in high school I was tall over 6 foot & looked older & I was solely dating college girls, I had fake ID to get into nightclubs & girls my own age mostly wanted to hang out at the local mall. And hell I was making more money at this time than most adults.

When I Graduated from high school I bought myself a 1983 Mazda RX7 & had it painted from "Sunrise Orange" to "Candy Apple Opal" a week after I bought it, "Sunrise Orange" was their "red" but after week I hated it, & it isn't like I couldn't afford it, & I enjoy making easier for the cops to spot me in my '"arrest me red" painted 2 door sport coupe, & of course it was a manual transmission, only dorks drive sport cars with an automatic transmission.

When I was 19 I joined an adults only ski club… if you're having trouble meeting girls, join a ski club. Girls do not want to meet their boyfriend in a bar, but on a skiing trip to the Alps is so much more romantic and with girls they love to brag about things like that. …and isn't "so where did you meet him?" the first thing mom's ask their daughters?

Wine Tasting Clubs were a huge hit too, I was in one for three years & my ability to tell you anything about a wine is limited to if it is red or white, but I do now have an amazing pallet & during the lockdown I really learned how to cook & think I am able to follow any recipe and a lot of the times improve it.

The Wine Clubs are all gone now over here in the States because of lawsuits. Every event had free unlimited wine. And US courts find the establishment responsible if they do not cut you off when they think you've had too much but the wine tasting events had many different servers for each of the wines who were specialists from their vineyards and could tell you everything involving that particular wine, so no one was able to track how much anybody had already. Towards the end they tried giving everyone 'coins' that you could use to get a glass but so many people would just steal them off the servers when they turned their back or stepped away, or that might have just been me.

And both clubs were Nonprofit, them being nonprofit is very important this way they can get items and services donated to them as a tax write off so everyone gets much better deals. Involving the wine tasting club all of the wine was donated from vineyards. And the larger skiing resorts would throw us parties with open bar for free.

…just turned on speech to text on this device … screw type for now on, but I do see I do rattle on like a lunatic (looking up at the book I 'wrote')

Congratulations on getting an article about what you did in the magazine!!! You do a great job for this community.

Lee, c'mon bro… the links man… you labeled like 3 of them and now we have to GUESS which one is which and end up clicking them all…. you usually label them all and it's super simple to find the story you want… it'd be different if we were able to see the whole link, but YT cuts them short….
hopefully you get back to to proper labeling… (and not those extra lines about photos and Magpi 137.. 😀 )

Any news on KDE Plasma 6

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