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Cake day: June 5th, 2025

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  • I swear to god this and the Ford CEO saying basically the exact same thing have some benefit for them that isn’t obvious. CEOs won’t even admit anything bad even when it’s their own company doing something wrong that has everyone pissed at them. There’s no chance in hell a CEO is going to publicly announce that “we have no chance” against a competitors product.

    There’s probably some backroom deal with China where these guys “play the fool” for a day and then get access to something, whether domestic manufacturing in China, access to tech, access to rare earths, or some other thing.


  • before the us/Israel attacked due to protests

    Israel and the US aren’t attacking due to the protests. They’re attacking because Israel wants to be like Nazi Germany leading up to the world wars and the US wants to help them.

    I question whether Iran actually did this because it seems like an extremely convenient timing of events that almost perfectly mimics the “WMDs” the media harped on about for weeks before we invaded Iraq almost like they’re following the exact same playbook used in that illegal invasion.










  • I’m not sure why you’re referring to the Pi4 since it doesn’t require this entirely non-standard power supply and isn’t their current flagship model. Nobody is asking for old models to be retrofitted with voltage regulators so that they don’t have to use a power supply that they already don’t need to use.

    You say you don’t use or recommend the Pi5 and yet you’re seemingly arguing that its power supply requirements aren’t a big deal and that improvements should absolutely not be made to it.



  • Most laptops today use power supplies that meet or exceed those specs.

    Non those are USB-PD power supplies that increase voltage up to 20V in order to deliver more power. No USB standard that I’m aware of offers 5A at 5V.

    As far as heat goes, these devices already need heatsinks and case fans, so the difference seems negligible.

    Also, good luck using a Pi5 any further than 3ft from a wall outlet unless you want to rig up your own power supply using some 14/2 Romex with a USB C connector soldered to the end.