Yandex is also very good at reverse image search.

A $3 esp32 can do a lot for a microcontroller

And you can probably do away with a 1$ ESP8266 for your GPIO needs.

The idea was that a Pi makes sense sometimes, and other times it doesn't. I know people using a Pi for one GPIO pin. This can be done just fine with an Arduino or an ESP8266.

I for one run a Pi with PiHole, Wireguard, Unifi controller, NVR, MQTT, etc. and a few more GPIO trinkets like Zwave. No ESP could practically handle all that, an x86 would be overkill in terms of size, noise, temperature, and power consumption.

On the other hand I use ESPs for things like "smartening up" my door intercom where even a Pi Zero would be overkill.

> No ESP could practically handle all that

You probably would be surprised what they can handle... See these examples:

https://github.com/ciniml/WireGuard-ESP32-Arduino

https://github.com/martin-ger/esp32_nat_router

Hydrogene is a bit early but it is the future when compared to Li-ion batteries.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch. There is no efficient way to make hydrogen. It's a lot more efficient and cheaper to put electricity straight into an EV than to convert it to hydrogen first.

I'm sure they will figure out easier, cheaper ways to make hydrogen but electricity will always be more efficient and cheaper because it's a fundamental force of the universe. Even hydrogen is made from the fundamental forces of the universe.

5 billion calls and $300M fine... Something doesn't add up

wdym?

6 cents a call is the rate breakdown... that doesn't seem as much a fine as it does a business cost.

Yes, I get the same type of spam in my inbox, usually with an image attached.

Yes exactly. There's also stuff about winning some product and shop loyalty programs.

You can take off the "/s"

The update process broke a few times for me in Arch. Only been using it for a couple of years.

Yes, some military and government aircraft are exempt from this requirement. It's otherwise illegal to disable ADS-B.

This is only sort of true. While not having ADS-B Out does limit where you can fly, it is not illegal to fly a civil aircraft without ADS-B Out equipment. The following rules are the most relevant:

If your aircraft is equipped with operable ADS-B Out equipment, it is illegal not to turn it on. 14 CFR 91.225(f).

If you wish to fly in Class A, B, or C airspace, within a Mode C veil, or in Class E airspace above 10,000', you must have ADS-B Out. 91.225(a) and (d).

There is no rule implementing a blanket requirement for all civil aircraft to have ADS-B Out.

You would be surprised how much airspace this leaves open to aircraft without ADS-B Out. You can in fact fly across the entire country, legally, without it.

And in my experience ATC could not care less whether you have ADS-B Out. 91.225 is riddled with "unless authorized by ATC," and practically speaking, in thousands of hours of flying I have never seen an aircraft turned away because of a lack of ADS-B Out. I've asked some controllers about this directly and it makes no difference to them.

EDIT: I should add that in Musk's case this ADS-B business is all a little bit of a red herring, because the second you get radar services, your data is public regardless of ADS-B status.

There's also a huge difference from just seeing a shuttle take off on TV vs in real life from relatively close... Can't even imagine being in it.

So its a bit like a VPN? Except that you can join specific devices from a multitude of networks?