Amazon and adafruit lists it for around 120-150 USD now so yes. 200 for one with a case and charger, etc.
I don’t know what those services are they look sketch to me so that screen shot means nothing to me. Even if they are legit I doubt they will ship to me. Or if they do ship it me its going to cost 80 dollars and take 3 months.
Theres generally a reason why it’s so cheap.
I rarely watched any of them back then, but I remember it felt like a whole year when the front page was only ever happy wheels.
If you already make a recycling run to the scrap yard its worth doing. I got 120 bucks last run just off old PCs and it wasn’t even that much, you just get more when you separate it. Aluminium cases, ram, motherboard, hard drives, CPUs. The older they are often the more they are worth, and if you are into eBay selling im sure you could make a killing. I heard even DDR 3 is coming back so who knows anymore.
Only thing you shouldn’t take is TVs you have to pay to get rid of them. Maybe don’t take appliance too. some people do, for example fridges have a few valuable components but I would not reccomend it. You end up with plastics and other junk sometimes and have to pay to get a dump run.
A lot of it only makes sense if you can store a pile until it gets big enough to be worth a trip out.
I’m surprised it wasn’t already on steam. I feel like I haven’t heard of happy wheels in nearly 20 years.
If its named superior intelligence do we have to natzi sullute it too, and go along with its final solution?
I have two spare 8th gen Intel PCs I saved from the garbage bin, and a old gaming desktop that I now use as the server. So if I need a spare server I’m probably going to use one of those. I can get USB to gpio so been thinking of trying trying that route more considering how often people get rid of old pcs. I have a stack of windows vista-7 era laptops I was going to take apart for scrap too which could be used.
I bought the pis a long time ago, each time a found a project for one I was sad I didn’t have one to play with and kept buying more. They aren’t really even in use now. Ones built in to my work station and occasionally I boot into it and use raspberry pi imager to flash ubuntu or something on a USB. Its useful to have just ready on occasion. I have a hard time getting rid of them because of use cases like that, and in have a lot of hats/accessories for them like the ai camera. Even though I’m not really going to use them like I used to anymore.
I have 3 pi 4s that where maybe 45 dollars each when I bought them, last time unchecked they where 600 dollars. I thought about selling them, but completely forgot if I want a pi again, and go to buy one, by then they might be 400 each.
Pixel hardware has the capabilities to do local ai stuff. At the baremin I know its capable of auido transcribing on its own hardware.
I would look into if there’s a Foss project for pixels that can run a local voice assistant. Because its just pointing at a app in the settings and making it default it shouldn’t be hard to find.
The only other option I can think of is setting up a home server with the services you need and using things like davx to sync info to your phone. I know you can run a local voice assistant there no problem, but I never tinkered around enough with home assistant to understand how to get everything the way you want. It sounded like setting up a million little automations on my phone, and then also on home assistant. I have grand disillusionment I’ll get around to setting it up by the end of this year but I don’t think that’s happening.
I like how you think outside of the box.
It was openai or meta that claimed because they didn’t seed the torrent that it wasn’t really piracy.
So piracy only starts becoming bad when it takes the form of communism/socialism lol.
The theft for a major corperation? Thats just good ol reliable capitalism.
I honestly don’t see a point where we can move past this without Sam altman, nadell, musk, etc all facing mandatory life time sentence without parole, work release etc.
I would also accept the removal of their heads.
Australia has the equivalent of the john birch society which is pushing racist shit, anti sex worker nonsense, and anti nsfw games.
They where the people that doxxed only fans workers and got them in trouble for taxes.
They also got itch.Io to remove a bunch of nsfw games.
We have a similar group in the united States who got prostitution to be reclassified as human trafficking, as if a sex worker doing independent work online is the same as the movie “taken” with Nissam. That resulted in backpages getting removed, along with legitimate concerns about minors being trafficked. Also all the porn websites where being pushed by this group to remove all of the porn that doesn’t have someone tied to a ID card. People say all the porn websites are owned by one person and this is to ensure that.
If you really want to look into it these kind of groups are funded by religious groups, and republicans and are in the same group of people who pushed for project 2026 or 2028 whatever it was called.
Scale.