maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

i want to be as naive as the people who think cohost is closing down because of not enough people giving it a try rather than too many people generating too much cost in hosting and manpower

i don't wanna shit on every single person for whom which cohost was a good thing. you can enjoy things whether or not the vibes are rancid and that's not on you, i think. as long as you're not perpetuating hate like people who still give money to joke rowlings

the CHIP had all marks of a successful hardware product. excellent (hardware, product and graphic) design, major advantages over the same raspberry foundation hardware of the same time, and mass appeal with the pico-8 collaboration. but the $9 pricepoint was a pie in the sky that was losing them money with every single board. they expected to make up the loss overcharging for the pocketCHIP DIP but most people bought a bare CHIP instead, bankrupting them

i'm not happy about the internet eroding into the same three corporations over again but also i had a bad feeling about the cohost attitude from the get go (especially their [indirect] aggressiveness against dreamwidth [and other social media in an attempt to pull the ladder up]) that i don't particularly feel bad that their hubris has caught up to them. sure you can make something nice and inviting but this feels like the $9 CHIP all over again. wishful thinking over proper financial competency

this isn't disdain btw. i thought the first one was fun. haven't seen the sequel yet

coming to america must be one of the weirdest movies to get a sequel like 25 years later, to me. rip james earl jones

@vxo oh shit they even have big ones with numbers oh fuck

@vxo oh fuck oh wow i need a source for those

@periperi_42 we just don't know

can you imagine if this funder decides to now sell the source to whatever highest bidder might want to start a second gab. what a world

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computer fairies (est. April 2017) has outlasted yet another social media website

you would think that anyone would have made something similar for the raspberry pi which is the most common of raspberry pis but i think in that regard the chip is still a better raspberry pi

i feel like this might have been already a solved problem with the chip in 2016 which had a direct plug for a lithium battery and had linux overlays to make it register like a laptop battery which almost every DE knows to report on the taskbar these days

am i bad at googling now or has nobody made something to make a raspberry pi be properly battery powered rather than "plug a powerbank and guess when it'll die out"