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[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Great news, my Sheevaplug can now cross 2038.

What's a Sheevaplug? https://lemmy.world/comment/7295421

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 9 months ago
[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago
[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

I was fairly certain I was going to see an IoT buttplug there...

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

The thought crossed my mind to do that the actual device seemed more interesting.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 2 points 9 months ago

The search term is censored by DuckDuckGo in Korea. Even robots apparently think it's going to be an IoT buttplug.

[-] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago
[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago
[-] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Thanks for sharing, there fucking awesome. Even more turned off from pi than I was before haha

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well then you may also like this comment here about the RPi's lack of hardware innovation and features. And this one about how it is just a product that stays in between two very different markets and doesn't really serve anyone.

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

As one of the first such computers on the market, the device has a 1.2 GHz Marvell Kirkwood 6281 ARM-compatible CPU, a.k.a. Feroceon.

Man this Pokémon thing is crazy, how many Eevolutions are there?!

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The SheevaPlug was the OG Raspberry Pi released years before the Raspberry Pi that nobody cared about because there wasn't a media hype around it.

Now the interesting part is: it included an ARM CPU @ 1.2 GHz and it was released in 2009 with dedicated Gigabit ethernet plus another isolated USB chip. Note that the Raspberry Pi was released years later, in 2012, with a 100M ethernet + USB shared chip that was total garbage. They kept selling that garbage until 2019 with the release of the Raspberry Pi 4 that finally came with Gigabit.

Another interesting fact about the SheevaPlug is that there was a variant with an eSATA port once again totally obliterating the Raspberry Pi 4 and making it the perfect low power system for a NAS at the time.

[-] Menteros@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Wow I forgot about those. Always wanted one but too expensive for me at the time.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I know the feeling, I also had to pay extra customs taxes because I'm in Europa and it was sold by an US company. :(

[-] socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 9 months ago

good thing they have 14 years to work on it

[-] ludrol@bookwormstory.social 40 points 9 months ago

Only 9 if they want to include it in LTS release

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

Just 4 if they want to help Ubuntu prevent it in their LTS releases

[-] init@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Didn't we learn our lesson 24 years ago with Y2K!?

EDIT: To be clear, I was being facetious. I remember my parents and father freaking out about this when I was in middle school. I would have thought we got this taken care of permanently already

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 44 points 9 months ago

Yes, that's why we are patching

[-] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

This mistake was made in the 70s when time was added to UNIX (or maybe already with Multics, idk)

[-] BlanK0@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The data lost that occurred due to the lack of differentiation between year 1900 and 2000 on calendar systems of the older computers?

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 months ago

It's always nice to see futureproofing

[-] maness300@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Does anyone know when the new date limit will be?

[-] Perhyte@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Assuming they went to signed 64-bit time, it should be about 3:28:32 pm UTC on Sunday, December 4, 292277026596. Yes, that last number is a year.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 6 points 9 months ago

That's Saturday night in North American time zones. Just a heads up in case you're planning a boys' night out a couple hundred billion years in advance, maybe move it to Friday night in case the world ends Saturday night.

[-] abbenm@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I think all stars in the galaxy will be dead by then.

[-] maness300@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago
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