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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • It’s a common sight at many retail stores: a queue of people, waiting to use a self-checkout kiosk, doing their best to remain patient as a lone store worker attends to multiple malfunctioning machines.

    I have never had this happen. The only issues I’ve ever had is people not understanding something so simple as scanning a barcode and then tap to pay.

    Self checkout is one of the greatest advancements I’ve ever had. Probably the most irritating thing about California is that they made it illegal to use a self checkout to buy beer. The state literally forced me to stand in lines when i can easily scan a barcode.



  • Ah yeah, i know what you mean. That can be overwhelming. There are a loooooot of choices, and the differences might be things I’ve never even heard of before.

    I think a lot of these articles are written with the expectation that you will try several different versions after you learn to flash/boot. I think i ended up with 4 different forks i could boot from.

    When I started, i went with Ubuntu first just because it seemed pretty stable and had support from a large company, but once I leanred how to boot Ubuntu it was easy to do the same steps for the other versions to try them out.





  • I run Plex on a Raspberry Pi 3, it can support two simultaneous 1080p Streams on my local Wifi. Cant support 2k or 4k videos at all. And cant support video outside of the local network.

    “use your favorite Unix then install Plex” or “Here are 56 perfect versions of Unix to install for your Plex server”

    What part of this do you think is hard?

    Each step can be scary at first but its not hard if you break it into pieces.

    Booting Ubuntu or some linux OS is a fun first step if you actually have a spare computer handy