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I have a FriendlyELEC NanoPi R4S with metal case, running Armbian with a couple of USB SSD drives, for file and website hosting mostly. Just my personal use: no heavy loads. It’s air cooled (no fan). It typically reports a temperature of about 35 centigrade. Up into the 40s if I increase the load (development, upgrades, indexing, etc.) I don’t know the actual power consumption, but the power adapter is only 15w. My original NanoPi R1 works fine for the same purpose and uses even less power - runs cooler. I got the R4S and an R2S Plus, so as to have spares and development/tinkering systems and to have a 64bit CPU, in case I wanted to run anything that requires it.

It’s not upgradeable but it’s fairly cheap and has worked well enough that I haven’t wanted to upgrade it for years, other than migrating from the R1 to the R4S, as mentioned. If by dev workload you mean running local LLMs or heavily loaded CI build system it probably wouldn’t be a good fit, but fine for compiling a package occasionally, local git and npm servers and similar. I don’t recall when I got the R1: some time before Covid. The R4S and R2S Plus have been running for about 5 years now.

There are many other SBCs supported by Armbian. You might find something better matched to your requirements.

keep making the same fundamental error: treating his employees as if they’re not human beings deserving of respect and care.

It’s not just Meta. It’s capitalism driven by financialization with sociopaths at the helm. It’s not an error. It is essential. Whatever changes they might make to increase their profits, they will not include actually caring about employees as human beings. AI might produce memos that better conceal the callous exploitation and fraudulently proclaim caring, but it doesn’t care either.

Meanwhile, AI companies get a free pass to steal every work online.

If it’s not consistent, it’s not justice.

Try searching for ‘illusion of choice’. There are many articles on this theme.

You might find some of the Worse on Purpose articles interesting.

A condition of public funding should be that aggregate internal rate of return, exclusive of executive team remuneration, should be published and capped, verified by independent audit.

Why only news sites?

Any bot that ignores robots.txt should be banned.

It’s not a problem. Those people won’t have a job by 2030. They won’t have money to buy water. Might as well let AI use it.

It’s not sufficient to condemn vigilante justice. The justice system must be seen to provide justice in a timely manner.

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice. Magna Carta 1215

Justice delayed is justice denied. William E. Gladstone 1868 et.al.

Justice must be seen to be done. Lord Hewart 1924

What is the public to do if the justice system does not obviously deliver justice in a timely manner? What will the Hampshire Police Federation do?

Maybe help relieve loneliness as an adjunct to normal care but certainly not ‘cure’ it and an AI grandchild cannot replace care. Elderly people need all sorts of care beyond what a grandchild, AI or natural, can provide.

In my experience, LLM based systems often return false statements as if they were true. I see reports suggesting they do this between 5% to more than 50% of the time, depending on the model and the prompts. You say you are learning from AI. How do you know if what you are learning is true or false? Do you care?

Then there is the moral issue of the AI systems being trained without compensation to the authors of most of the training data. Related is the issue of AI developers crawling websites without the consent of the owners and often despite explicit indication of the owners that they should not, causing expense and performance problems for the owners of those sites.

Also, there is the risk they create for economies. Investment is disproportionate to revenue. Services are being given away at far below cost. The investment is so large that it puts even large economies at risk.

Canada should minimize vulnerability to US trade relations and focus on increasing trade with more reliable partners seeking mutual benefits. US tariffs on imports from Canada encourage this so they are not all bad.

Is the plan that “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” or are they just going to bomb them “back to the Stone Ages where they belong”?

Maybe they should do more than just fire a person who was caught using AI. Maybe they should establish a process of independent fact checking before publication, regardless of whether AI was known or intended to be used to produce the article. It is a problem that AI was used in a way that introduced factual errors. It’s fair that the person responsible for this was fired. But all processes need quality control. Why hasn’t the person who failed to wrap quality control processes around the author fired?

AI - damned if you do and damned if you don’t. And it’s not just journalism affected.