I didn't have the rapid demise of Wordpress on my 2024 bingo card.

This device makes Meshtastic the BEST off-grid tech (a 3rd channel video!): #meshtastic

4K Gaming on a Raspberry Pi? YES! It's been over four years in the making, but thanks to some amazing work by Coreforge and others in the community, we have a mostly-stable patch for (some) AMD GPUs running on the Pi 5. Unlike past attempts, most of the memory alignment bugs are fixed, it's stable with Wayland and many arm64-compatible games, and it may even be possible to use it for transcoding! Full details:

Jeff Geerling

Use an External GPU on Raspberry Pi 5 for 4K Gaming

After I saw Pineboards 4K Pi 5 external GPU gaming demo at Maker Faire Hanover, I decided it was time to set up my GPU test rig and see how the Pi ...

OpenAI valued at $157 billion dollars — currently losing $5 billion per year, and only raised enough for a year and change of operation today. They'll probably crack AGI as quickly as Tesla's gotten robotaxis deployed.

After being published on my channel for over two years, YouTube put a strike on my channel for my video showing people how to set up Jellyfin on their NAS, for promoting "dangerous or harmful content". Video was posted here () and had nothing about bypassing DRM, stealing content, or bypassing subscription services (other than a call to stop using Netflix, Disney+, etc. because they keep jacking up rates while providing less quality).

I tore down the new Qualcomm Snapdragon Dev Kit—the CoPilot+'est of CoPilot+ PCs. All the gory details on my blog:

Jeff Geerling

Qualcomm Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows Teardown (2024)

Update - October 17: Today Qualcomm cancelled all remaining orders, and will no longer support the Dev Kit. In late July, a week after ordering the...

AI is a tool—but it's currently ripe for abuse. Elecrow responded after I called out an AI clone of my voice being used without consent on their YouTube channel. The full story, and some lessons learned:

They stole my voice with AI Elecrow—an electronics company that makes Pi and ESP accessories—used an AI voice for multiple tutorial series which sounds _almost exactly_ like me. I never consented to have my voice used to promote Elecrow's products.

A RISC-V Stick-on — that controls your computer *anywhere*! Check out the Sipeed NanoKVM, a tiny $50 IP KVM:

"I'M DOING MY PART!" 🫡 Saving the 900 MHz band for @Meshtastic and other hobby uses. You can too! https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bname%5D=24-240