Whilst playing about with the latest release of the ESXi for ARM Fling on a handy Raspberry Pi, I managed to waste a good few hours before I discovered that both the 22.04 and 23.10 releases of Ubuntu Server for ARM now require more than 1GB of memory to install without the installer crashing.
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Raspberry Pi 5
So it looks like my Raspberry Pi 5 pre-order is about to ship via Pimoroni.
I’ve managed to snag an 8GB model along with the official power supply and the new fan-assisted case. When it comes to the latter, it’ll be interesting to see just how loud and obnoxious the fan actually is.
And, of course, just how much dust it collects before I get around to playing with it.
Honk / Cyriak (2023)
Honk!
Heavy Seas in Poldhu Cove
And another video! This time we have some heavy seas from Poldhu Cove in Cornwall. See other video and photographs from this trip here!
Gunwalloe Church Cove on a Stormy Day
More video potterings with a spot of footage taken at Gunwalloe Church Cove on a stormy day in March 2023.
Space Scapes from Foundation
I must have missed this the first time around but Apple has put up a series of Space Scapes from their rather enjoyable adaptation of Foundation.
Gosh!
From October 2023’s Ansible:
40 Years Ago, a Japanese con publication printed many ‘messages of support’ from UK/US authors. J.G. Ballard rose to the occasion: ‘That great feat of arms, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941, must now be repeated in the realm of the imagination — let the SF writers of Japan set out across the skies of the human psyche, each carrying a piece of that explosive future which will torpedo the battleships of complacency and inertia!’ (Ansible 35, October 1983)
Anisble, October 2023
From anyone else that would be a little on the nose, but from a man with Ballard’s history with the Japanese it’s something else entirely!
Overrated Cornwall – Anti-adverts for England’s most westerly county
‘Overrated Cornwall‘ is a set of anti-advertisement posters for one of my favourite British regions. Base off some truly terrible TripAdvisor reviews, they are firm proof that there is always someone, somewhere that’s terribly wrong in what they think.
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