Moving is expensive. If you barely scrape by, this id not an option for the vast majority of these people.

In embedded, if you are to the point that you need to optimize the bools to reduce the footprint, you fucked up sizing your mcu.

Yes. But I use a cheap Brother laser printer.

A job I had in the past, everyday, I would get up to a 100 emails per day(I was managing a team).

99% of it was garbage.

One time, I came back to more than 2000 emails from vacations. I told my boss that I would mark them as read and to fill me in on what I nees to look out for, otherwise I would never have gone through all the garbage.

I scrape the bulk of the food in the compost, but it’s more time efficient to let the small chunks get stuck in the filter than trying to get everything over the compost bin.

I have plenty of food in the sink when I rinse the plates. It’s a lot easier to pick up the little chunks in the filter there than trying to get everything in the first pass in the compost.

I mean between that or putting my hands in shit while changing a diaper, I will take wet food in the sink any day of the week.

People take this advice, move to a lower COL area and rise the COL.

People that handed the advice now complains that they can’t afford to live in their not-so-low-COL-anymore area

When you buy an ARM from ST or Espressif, the license is already paid for. We have no shortage of ARM on the market or every other non-arm chips on the market.

Changing to RISC-V should theoretically lower the price to comparable ARM chips because there is no license to pay, but the buck stops there.

If a company develops a product with a RISC-V chip, they can still create a walled product. The underlying chip architecture does not prevent a company from being a dick.

The Atmel Atmega/AVR is just an old architecture from before ARM became widespread. And Arduino is a project that streamlined code loading onto a chip to make creative art more accessible to non-technical people and caught on. It could have been done on Microchip PIC or the Texas Instrument MSP, both widespread architecture at the time.

What I am trying to say is that we have plenty of hardware to do pretty much anything that we want and the issue of open hardware/firmware is on the companies that create the products and not the chips from the manufacturers.

Edit: Espressif is not ARM based.

It won’t. Nothing stops companies from open-sourcing their hardware and firmware already.

It’s not exclusive to ML though.

It is something I am learning myself, but without the experience to back it up, it’s really hard to understand truly.

Never tried it, but I will probably be more at home than python.

I prefer strongly typed languages. Using bytes isn’t intuitive.

Transforming certain data types into other data types is often not straightforward.

The identation is the worst though. Let me format the code however I want.

I just learned that in Python, it’s fucking terrible. Python is a fucking mess and my next script will be in a different language.

What a fucking leap. CLI does not equal complexity.

If you can write and read, you can use a CLI. Can you read and write? Great, you can learn CLI cmds.

People don’t want to use CLIs because unless you’ve been using computers before windows 95, chances are that all your life you’ve been using a GUI, and humans in general don’t like changes.

Going from Windows to any Linux distro is a big enough leap, and adding a new way to interact with your tool on top of that is too much at once for the vast majority of people.

With that said, a lot of Windows issues require you to use the CLI and mess with regedit to fix them. How is that any different than asking people to run a diagnostic command to troubleshoot their PC?

You can use a Linux distro through a GUI pretty much 99.9% of the time, just like Windows. The only difference is that on Linux, the CLI is much more powerful than the GUI, so the majority of users will use the CLI to troubleshoot.

Yeah, but regedit is a GUI. So it’s all cool and dandy.

It is a deliberate choice by corpos to dumb everything down so that they can lock people in their ecosystem.

If you don’t know how things work, it’s a lot harded to switch to a new ecosystem.

We were equally dumb when younger, it is just that we look at them now with the experience we accumulated.

And we can flip the table and ask why no one is taking the time to train these young people. Stop being an old grumpy person and help the next generation.

Were you drinking before posting this reply?

I much prefer using the terminal than the GUI if I can.

But I understand that not everyone likes the terminal.

To be fair, I couldn’t tell you how to run my file manager as root from the GUI because I don’t use it that much.