Isn’t GitHub already blocked in China?

I know there are already a number of extensions specified in the specifications, such that Risc-V could be relevant to design the simplest of microcontroller up to the most powerful super computer. I suppose it is possible and allowed to design a CPU with proprietary extensions. What should prevent an ARM type of situation is the fact that so many use-cases are already covered by the open specifications. What is not there yet, to my knowledge, are things like graphics, video, neural-net acceleration.

Yes, I admit it’s still a pretty complex explanation. I gave it my best shot :)

RISC-V (pronounced risk five), is a Free open-source Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). Other well established ISA like x86, amd64 (Intel and AMD) and ARM, are proprietary and therefore, one must pay every expensive licenses to design and build a processor using these architectures. You don’t need to pay a license to build a RISC-V processor, you only need to follow the specifications. That doesn’t mean the CPU design is also free, no, they stay very much the closed property of the designer, but RISC-V represents non the less, a very big step towards more transparency and technology freedom.

Do not expect this thing to be a daily driver. It’s aimed at developers who need a Risc-V testing platform. Very few Software will run on it unless you can spend hours making it compile for Risk-V and lets not talk about drivers. Also it will likely cost over $1000.

I am exited for the future of Risc-V in the consumer space, but we aren’t there yet.

About the power of the hardware, you don’t need to worry too much. My NAS is a SBC with 6 ARM cores and 4GB or RAM. It run flawlessly all the services you’ve listed and more ! (Also, without transcoding for jellyfin).

I don’t know if your budget includes Hard disks, but it should be plenty enough to get you an ready made NAS from Synology or other brands, that will give you an easy start with self-hosting.

If you want to go the DIY route. Then I recommend to build yourself a small computer from a Intel N100 motherboard, or the older J5040. From there you can install Open Media Vault, or otherwise the Linux distribution you are the most familiar with, and install Docker. You can check Linuxserver.io for many guides for spinning up docker containers for all of the services you’ve listed.

Streaming services don’t support artists in any meaningful way.

Instead, buy music for download when it’s available (Bandcamp and the like).

If not possible, just pirate it and buy merchandise or go to a concert. You will bring as much revenue to the artists this way, than listening to them on Spotify for 200 years non stop, and it will be cheaper for you in the end.

It has been purchased by EPIC and a large portion of the staff was layed off. But it is still up and you can still buy music there.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoffs-epic-songtradr

GrapheneOS has an option to restart the phone after a given time without any successful unlock. I have it set to 8 hours, so it reboots every night. Shorter is possible.

A freshly restarted phone is in its safest state. Necessary to input the unlock code, strict minimum required processes running in the background.

Sorry, can’t find the stuff I read about it a while back when I was interested about it, or was it a YouTube video?

Anyway, here is what I remember: having the radioactive fuel as a liquid makes it easier to leak, and once that’s happened, the environment damage will spread faster to ground water. Also sodium salt is liquid at high temperature, at which it will spontaneously catch fire in contact with oxygen (air), so any leak will cause a catastrophic fire, and this is what caused the demise of the French prototype “Projet Phénix” in the 70s.

We all have Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and many other brilliant volunteer developers to thank for it

Because it is actually not that simple, especially on the “cleaner” and “safer” parts.

Probably cameras and rain sensor :)

I can’t seem to find information about the Ford Escape having a LiDAR, it’s not on the spec. Sheet on Ford’s website and in the news it’s only about prototypes.

I am not saying Teslas should or shouldn’t have LiDARs. I am just curious. I only know about Audi, Mercedes, Honda and Hyundai currently selling cars with LiDAR used for ADAS. They might be more Chinese OEMs selling cars with LiDARs, buy Ford, it surprises me.

The LiDAR you have on your vacuum isn’t going to cut it as a safety relevant component onboard your car. Automotive-grade LiDAR are on another price range. Development for such sensors is quoted separately from the part price, and it costs millions of $.

Teams is the absolute worst, my SO has some interviews lately and we had to figure out how to make it work:

1. Linux + Firefox
2. Plz create a Microsoft account. Urg… Fine.
3. Sorry, web browser not supported. BS
4. User-Agent switcher: ok you’re in ! But other participants don’t see the webcam feed despite it showing just fine on our end
5. Ok, let’s try Chromium. Nope, can’t join the meeting
6. Let’s go over to the MacBook Air. Can’t install Chrome, MacOS is too old, no more updates from Apple
7. Let’s try on Android. Would work, if you could find a way to open the meeting link in the App LoL !
8. Ok, let’s install, windows 11 and get it working, fucking painful, again create and account, sign all of our most intimate data off to the overlords, takes fucking hours to install… #GettingThingsSetupForyou… #Hi
9. Finally, Install Flatpak Chrome on Linux, works ! WTF… I am so fucking done with this…

Funbucket

If I were to rework the drive mounting solution, I would probably redo the whole case from scratch. Currently the drives are slotted inside 5.25" bays and theses are assembled together with 3D printed brackets. I have the impression vibration are not transferring too much to the case and outside.

Maybe I can find some rubber damper that would fit around the drives inside the 5.25" bays.

Thanks, I will look for surveillance types of disks.

Living room is my only option.

Thank you for the suggestions, but this isn’t quite what I am looking for. Moving the NAS to another room isn’t an option, bedroom and bathroom are even less suitable for a NAS :D

I don’t wish to modify the appearance of it either. For one, I’ve spent quite a lot of time designing and building the enclosure from scratch (it’s a unique and original design from my creation). Then, it sits in my TV cabinet and space is an additional concern.