This is actually a trick question. Everybody has two arms! It comes with the body!
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Sadly not always ….. but in principal
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I am. I always carry my ARM based mobile phone 
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Sounds a load of pi
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Nick Vujicic would deny this.
As for your question, I run a Raspberry and an Odroid, so yes, I’m armed.
But I hate guns and such, so I’m unarmed
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You can bet I will have my 9mm with me, when I leave my property!!
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Not in .au We dont have gun freedom. It just became even more strict after the Bondi massacre.
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Way too many arms in the USA!
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We had a buy back scheme and got rid of automatic weapons, and we toughenened up the licencing. Not perfect… there are still illegal weapons.
The politics of it is difficult because there are groups ( farmers, pest controllers) with legitimate need for guns.
Recently, after the Bondi massacre, we are having a second round of buyback that will limit newer types of semi-automatic weapons.
Penalties for illegal weapons are severe.
There are all sorts of issues with home made weapons, plastic imitations, explosive devices other than guns, imports. At least we are making an effort at control.
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Why do you say that, I think you should rephrase that, to a “ to many crazy’s have” access to guns!! Never have seen, not one of my guns fire, unless I, or someone else, pulled the trigger!! As being former, military, I will keep my guns !!
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You have the training.
Most people do not , and they should not have access to guns.
Crazy’s are too difficult to control, it is easier to restrict gun access.
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And there you have the problem; there’s too many crazy people out there.
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Its not just guns now, there has been and increase in crime using knife even hard to stop, how many do you have in your kitchen alone not to mention your workshop or car.
I have a suisse army knife and a leatherman in my carry to clients tool kits. Yes if stopped by the police they could confiscate
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Getting back to the computer views of the original topic.
Where are we with Arm processors?
I know we have phones and tablets , but what about laptops and desktops… are they up to that yet? I mean something better than putting an RPi in a box.
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Pi’s are so bad. I have 4 units (model 5) with PCIe nvme drives:
- Pihole, doing DNS, 24/7.
- Nginx unit, hosting 2 static web sites (24/7), forwards another.
- Media server mounted to rear of TV, on demand.
- Last one hosting OpenMediaServer with 2 nvme drives in mirror RAID, replacing NAS box. Only turned on for backups, in turn backed up via USB (air gapped).
Not barn burners, but up to the task.
I also have a Debian VM running Nextcloud, runs on ESXi along with 5 servers (term used loosely).
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I used to carry my leatherman everywhere with me…
But new laws here mean it would be confiscated… So I don’t carry it around…
A shame - it’s a very handy tool - scissors, pliers, smallish hex and torq bits and driver, hack saw, file, phillips head and flat head screwdriver…
Both my MacBook Pro M1 systems are ARM (“Apple Silicon” is arm64 / aarch64 “based” but it’s Apple’s SoC with their own stuff on the same die - Apple hold a significant chunk of ARM shares)… When I first got my M1 MBP (in 2021) - I ran a bunch of geekbench tests and compared to my Ryzen 7 desktop machine… On some tasks the M1 ran rings around the Ryzen - on others - the Ryzen did better - mainly 'cause it had a dedicated GPU at the time (back then an NVidia GTX1650 “super”). So the MacBook M1 laptops came out in 2020 - so at least 5+ years of arm based computers… The iMac and the Mac Mini since around 2021 are all ARM “Apple Silicon”…
There are a few Windows laptops out there with arm based chips - “exynos” implementation I think… I think Lenovo and Samsung mainly? And I’ve seen a few people have success running Linux on them…
When Microsoft released their “Surface” line of tablet / laptops (2013? 2014?) - the Surface RT was ARM based… No idea if that was 32 bit or 64 bit… I think the former…
Intel just can’t compete with ARM on energy efficiency… Hence why my MBP will go for hours and hours and hours (I’ve never fully tested it - but I did run it for 9-10 hours on battery once - 2-3 hours of that on “standby” while I was in transit) on battery - but my AMD Thinkpad will be lucky to get 2-3 hours…
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The Argon Pi laptop looks like a great little setup… It uses a Pi CM5 module (Compute Module) - i.e. a Pi5 with up to 16 GB of LPDDR4… Tragically - I missed the Kickstarter for it… Argon make great products - I have two of their Pi4 cases…
The great thing about the Pi “ecosystem” is support from the Pi Foundation… Just about all the other SBC makers with ARM offerings have TERRIBLE support… I’d never risk Pine - I bought two of their Pine64 SBCs in 2016 - they were horrible… I’ve never used them - the software support was shonky and the USB power was dodgy as f–k! And they were so shonky they didn’t even have proper MAC addresses on the gigabit NIC! i.e. they were “dynamic”…
And if Pi Foundation keep the same format for the Computer Model in the next generation - it’s a simple upgrade - the CM4 and CM5 have the same connector… they should be interchange-able… But there’s always the risk a CM6 won’t be compatible…
The CM5 :
Note - the AI driven demand for RAM etc has affected Raspberry Pi supplies too… It’s reprehensible…
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I can see that having an impact on laptops and other portables.
For desktops, it seems there is not much point in trying for arm, unless you are extremely power conscious.
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Does the Odroid count?
I love to have it as my home server - kind of NAS but with much more flexibility.
Agree, but some of the new small CPU’s, like N150, N200 come real close.
On the other hand, the real heavy duty computers can’t be built on ARM CPUs, can they?
I mean big servers, capable workstations, and such.
A mini-PC (intel based) can easily replace a desktop - at least for usual daily usage, browsing the net, playing video files, do some office-like task. Even some very basic gaming maybe.
That workload could be taken by an ARM too.
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No mention of snapdragon processors yet most of us will have them in our phones or tablets.
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