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Re: Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

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Post by vinhboy »

denimnerd42 wrote: post #36
godot wrote: post #35

A bit off-topic but related to the intro in this readme.. > Why? > I'm super bored in lockdown. Add a Raspberry Pi 400 and a few tiny displays... I feel like there are two distinct kinds of lockdown experience. One, you have kids, and you have absolutely no free time because now your kids are home and you're working from home. Two, you don't have kids, and you're super bored every day. Seems like not much in between.

they don't go to bed? I work in my garage workshop from bedtime to midnight or one a few times a week. I've turned out way more finished projects than I ever did before the pandemic.

When they go to bed is when I can actually work. But I am obviously wasting that time on hn as of this moment. LOL.

Re: Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

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Post by gregmac »

denimnerd42 wrote: post #36
godot wrote: post #35

A bit off-topic but related to the intro in this readme.. > Why? > I'm super bored in lockdown. Add a Raspberry Pi 400 and a few tiny displays... I feel like there are two distinct kinds of lockdown experience. One, you have kids, and you have absolutely no free time because now your kids are home and you're working from home. Two, you don't have kids, and you're super bored every day. Seems like not much in between.

they don't go to bed? I work in my garage workshop from bedtime to midnight or one a few times a week. I've turned out way more finished projects than I ever did before the pandemic.

That's the second part of my work day. The first part is between breakfast and lunch. During lockdown (like we're about to go into again) my afternoon becomes my other, new, exhausting job of being a crappy early grade teacher while my partner works her normal job. Evening we all have dinner together, then alternate who does bath/bedtime vs dishes/laundry/garbage/etc, before going back to "day" job and finally sleep.

Re: Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

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Post by herodoturtle »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #3
ISL wrote: post #2

There's a lotta cool/interesting applications for a tiny display like that. Thanks for sharing. :).

Other than watch-like functions, can you give me some ideas?

In a mini server farm like the one we're running at work you could stick one on each box and run htop or something along those lines. Cool for a sys admin to have a status display of each physical box's htop graph at a glance.

Re: Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

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Post by TeMPOraL »

denimnerd42 wrote: post #36
godot wrote: post #35

A bit off-topic but related to the intro in this readme.. > Why? > I'm super bored in lockdown. Add a Raspberry Pi 400 and a few tiny displays... I feel like there are two distinct kinds of lockdown experience. One, you have kids, and you have absolutely no free time because now your kids are home and you're working from home. Two, you don't have kids, and you're super bored every day. Seems like not much in between.

they don't go to bed? I work in my garage workshop from bedtime to midnight or one a few times a week. I've turned out way more finished projects than I ever did before the pandemic.

They do, but your SO would probably like to spend some time with you as well.

Myself, between WFH, my wife and my 18mo, I get about 1-2 hours of personal time after they both go to sleep, and half of those times I'm too tired by then to work on anything.

Re: Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

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Post by gofreddygo »

godot wrote: post #35

A bit off-topic but related to the intro in this readme.. > Why? > I'm super bored in lockdown. Add a Raspberry Pi 400 and a few tiny displays... I feel like there are two distinct kinds of lockdown experience. One, you have kids, and you have absolutely no free time because now your kids are home and you're working from home. Two, you don't have kids, and you're super bored every day. Seems like not much in between.

Super agree. Its either "I'm bored out of my wits" or "i'm exhausted with my kids"

Folks with more time and energy on their hands have managed spend it all on a broad variety of rabbit holes.

Folks with kids have managed to wither whatever minutes were left away, looking at the other group's reports on their rabbit hole expeditions

Both, together have managed to give google enough confidence to double their ads and disable the "skip ad" buttons on youtube.

Re: Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

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Post by gofreddygo »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #46
denimnerd42 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they don't go to bed? I work in my garage workshop from bedtime to midnight or one a few times a week. I've turned out way more finished projects than I ever did before the pandemic.

They do, but your SO would probably like to spend some time with you as well. Myself, between WFH, my wife and my 18mo, I get about 1-2 hours of personal time after they both go to sleep, and half of those times I'm too tired by then to work on anything.

I've been on a mission to start my day earlier than both my SO and LO. It's been a resounding failure.

Re: Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

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Post by Roritharr »

chrisacky wrote: post #38
d0ugal wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a 3yo and a 10 month old. Way too tired for that. Maybe if they were a bit older?

4, 3 and a 1 y/o for me. Can agree, that it's been hard to maintain the same focus and energy recently.

We feel like the worst parents in the world because our kids apparently don't need as much sleep as other kids.

We've tried extensive bedtime rituals, tried tiring them out by going to the forest and making em run etc, but we really can't get our 1,5 year old to need more sleep than we do.

Our 4 year old tends to sleep an hour longer in the morning, but the little one is really killing us from a freetime standpoint with his 7 hours a day of sleep he needs (5-6 at night, 30m-1h a day).

Naturally this is driving my wife and me insane.

Daycares were open, but we've decided to take our older one out to reduce his contacts and give the daycare some breathing room as they are also at their limits because they've had staff quitting because they didn't want to risk getting infected for this little money (understandable imo).

The whole situation for parents is absolutely disastrous, my wife should have been looking for a new job already, but it was simply not realistic for her to start working a new job with me retaining mine and the kids at home.

As a young family in a high cost-of-living metro-area we had to decide to move as we can't afford to live here while giving our kids the space at home they need without support that allows us to work effectively.

Re: Show HN: Raspberry Pi 400 with a $2 IPS 240x240 micro display

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Post by Mauricebranagh »

hmottestad wrote: post #39
godot wrote: post #35

A bit off-topic but related to the intro in this readme.. > Why? > I'm super bored in lockdown. Add a Raspberry Pi 400 and a few tiny displays... I feel like there are two distinct kinds of lockdown experience. One, you have kids, and you have absolutely no free time because now your kids are home and you're working from home. Two, you don't have kids, and you're super bored every day. Seems like not much in between.

Kindergarten? School? At least in Norway the government has focused on locking down old -> young. So bars and restaurants and gyms are pretty much shut down, put kindergarten and primary schools are still open with some restrictions. Mind you though. Most of the people I know with small kids didn’t have much time to spend on side projects before the lockdown either. Only difference now is that they save an hour of tr…

Now it turns out that kids at school are spreaders (especially of the new variant) - one of my friends who is a teacher has it.
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