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Over the seasons, the plot holes have gotten massively bigger and more numerous and the characters dumber, which makes it increasingly difficult to binge watch the latest season, so I still have Season 7 queued up.
(I've got a few shows like that, including one that I know goes completely off the rails and wasn't renewed, which makes me waiting until I otherwise drained the queue and even then, I'm not sure I want to bother.)
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I just bought a Raspberry Pi 83-16561RK Broadcom BCM2837 64-bit ARMv8 Quad-Core Processor at 1.2 GHz 'kit' - my first venture into the world of such things. It's comes with all you need (power supply &etc) so I can eliminate some of the prep until I know what I want to do with it. I saw it. I wanted it. As of a few seconds ago, my credit card has been charged for it.
For better or for worse, I'm about to learn something.
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As long as what you learn is "this is fun" rather than "that was the rent money" you'll be fine! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I just received mine today, I've had several versions of the Pi and it's a lot of fun.
I haven't done anything but play with it up until now but there are a couple of projects I'm considering.
Shameless plug: I also wrote several articles about Pi if interested.
Enjoy
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Mike Hankey wrote: Shameless plug:
Time for shame approaches: I've CP'd you (like Googling, but better) and will start with part I.*
*Think of your shame as a feeling akin to the feeling Beethoven would get as his 9th Symphony is played by a 6th grade tonette[^] ensemble.
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Enjoy - doing stuff with these SBC's is a lot of fun.
And check out The PI Hut
Also, Derek Malloy is a god when it comes to this stuff, he originally wrote the bible on the Beaglebone but now has a book on the rPI. Highly recommended, even if the book costs more than the rPI!
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Thanks - more resources and encouragement.
The only difficult part will, I fear, be somehow getting Mrs. Wife to understand that what I'm doing is more important than the items on her (auto-renewing) To-Do list. Getting away with that will surely add to the fun.
[✔] And, I think I've just added an item to my 'what to do when I retire' list.
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If you figure out how to get out of the auto-renewing To-Do list could you possible share that information. Maybe write an article. I have a feeling there are a lot of people out there that could use that information.
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Still a work in progress.
Yesterday, for example, she had me spackling. Oh, yeah, and lopping the hedge out front just because it blocked about half the walkway. That, too.
It bears repeating: A work in progress.
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Well, I went and had a stroke. No ToDo s since then.
We did get flooded in late August with the hurrican in Houston.
My step daughter was frantic calling al;l over thinking I drowned. The weater was only ankle deep and I slept through everythinbg and woke up when the watewr was receding.
I told here I survived a massive stroke, It'll take more thabn a little watewr to do me in.
WE had to replace all our floors and sheetrock, but we're moved back in again and my desktop computer is working, but
I lost everythibng else in my office.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Getting away with that will surely add to the fun.
Just tell her your working on an IoT application that will help you manage her To-Do list everywhere, with GPS AI to alert you when you approach a store for a "to-do purchase" and a grocery list when at the grocery store, auto-downloading of the kids soccer game schedule from the school website so that you never ever again forget to pick them up, and NSA portal for remembering important dates like anniversaries, birthdays, and mother-in-law birthday. 
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She'll never believe any of that.
It took her insistence to get me as far as carrying a flip-phone. If I want to be annoyed, I see no reason to leave home for the privilege. She also knows I'm a privacy freak - IoT is not something I'm likely to be into - at least whilst I have a choice.
If this were easy to do, everyone would have already figured it out.
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Agreed Derek Malloy is absolutely the goto for Beaglebone and now the Pi.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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A cheap, easily replaced computer that hardly uses any resources, and you can run .NET applications on it. If you have a pet consider taping it to it to create a cyborg-pet 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: If you have a pet consider taping it to it to create a cyborg-pet
We have a dog that is so stupid that replacing its brain with a raspberry Pi could only be an improvement.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Replacing the brain means you have to add routines to do things like breathing and walking. It may work better as a co-processor, where it adds features that the normal brain will not handle. Otherwise your dog may stop working as intended
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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To say nothing of voiding the warranty 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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For better or for worse, I'm about to learn something.
Like "How many mailing lists will I be on now"?
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Mailing lists have not been much of a problem to me. If I'm not taken off then I punish the source (SMTP in a loop w/randomized FROM's, for example). A few hundred emails works wonders. A thousand? Even more wonders.
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I meant actual physical mail.
Last week I got a piece of junk mail addressed to the parents of MarkTJohnson for a Catholic high school in my area.
1. I'm not Catholic
2. I'm 51.
3. I don't live with my parents.
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Mine is now dedicated to • Audiophile Music Player | DAP | Volumio[^]
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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I think your experience did not take place in the UK! Here such action would be considered theft in the first place. There are extreme constrictive laws in place here in the UK about that sort of practices. In the UK such practice would be deemed totally unacceptable under a variety of laws. Never heard of such thing happening anywhere here. Get on to your Law Makers, and your local police to stop this practice in your country!
Bram van Kampen
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Are air brakes what a swimmer takes between strokes?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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