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Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Meta comment to your meta comment : this is a very personal opinion but I cannot stop myself from thinking less about your message (even though I agree with it), just because of that edgy wannabe way to go about naming Microsoft. You want to say Microsoft say that, you want to say Github say that but if you say a vaguely insulting name only to have to specify what you actually mean... It doesn't bring anything to the…

I thought it brought something to the conversation

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Love the way the author labels each of his diagrams as “AI Slop”!

I'm kind of fascinated by the first diagram on the page. It sits so firmly in the uncanny valley for me and I can't put my finger on why. By itself every part looks ok and normal, but as a whole it just screams AI to me. I don't know if its the color choices or the composition or something else. It all just feels that little bit off. I mean, I know its AI, the page says so itself, no one is trying to hide it. But it…

To me there's something about the "AI Slop Font" where it instantly triggers that uncanny valley. I guess since it's kind of an average of a bunch of fonts so it's somehow familiar but also unfamiliar at the same time.

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Love the way the author labels each of his diagrams as “AI Slop”!

I'm kind of fascinated by the first diagram on the page. It sits so firmly in the uncanny valley for me and I can't put my finger on why. By itself every part looks ok and normal, but as a whole it just screams AI to me. I don't know if its the color choices or the composition or something else. It all just feels that little bit off. I mean, I know its AI, the page says so itself, no one is trying to hide it. But it…

Absolutely can relate. Thats why I would say: Do your own diagrams! At least the text and formatting.

Where I do think it ads value is "AI slop 2". This is somehow even better comprehensible than an average photo.

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Meta comment to your meta comment : this is a very personal opinion but I cannot stop myself from thinking less about your message (even though I agree with it), just because of that edgy wannabe way to go about naming Microsoft. You want to say Microsoft say that, you want to say Github say that but if you say a vaguely insulting name only to have to specify what you actually mean... It doesn't bring anything to the…

It means GH is now full of slop and pointing out it's owned by Microsoft, for those who may not have known or LMS who did not until recently

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Interesting project. In a similar but opposite vein, I am going on a vacation and I wanted to share the stupidly expensive internet in my room at night with the family so I am likely bringing a raspberry pi to have as a travel router attached to my Mac. In this case, I can use the RaspAP project: https://raspap.com/ This is slightly different in that I do want a NAT.

It's also slightly different because this project is for the Pi Pico.

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won’t somebody please think of the billion dollar company?

This has nothing to do with the billion dollar company, and I have no lost love for Microsoft. It's about quality of discourse among us, and Microsoft has nothing to do with that.

what do you think about Micro$haft WinBlowz

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Love the way the author labels each of his diagrams as “AI Slop”!

I'm kind of fascinated by the first diagram on the page. It sits so firmly in the uncanny valley for me and I can't put my finger on why. By itself every part looks ok and normal, but as a whole it just screams AI to me. I don't know if its the color choices or the composition or something else. It all just feels that little bit off. I mean, I know its AI, the page says so itself, no one is trying to hide it. But it…

It's the amount of little icons and bold text. And then phrases like "No NAT, No Port-forwards"

Also details like the light blue boxes being swapped.

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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But this is a Pi Pico, which is a microcontroller and not a Linux system.

Two arm cores at 133 MHz. That's already more powerful than my first computer. For $4. It qualifies as a computer on it's own. It runs Linux just a hacked version with an emulated MMU https://github.com/tvlad1234/pico-rv32ima

FUZIX is a better fit. https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Interesting that Gemini said it was infeasible. It should be aware that using a Pico W as a transparent ethernet bridge has been done several times over in open source projects, for example on BlueSCSI (emulating a Daynaport SCSI-Ethernet adapter) and PicoMEM and my own PicoGUS project (emulating an NE2000 Ethernet adapter).

It's often good to approach what llm said as a guidance, and not as ground truth. You can ask follow up questions or point to potential feasibility and it will change its answer.

Yes, but. I asked Perplexity Pro the same fact question (sports) three days in a row after correcting its error the first day and having the correction acknowledged with a promise to get it right in the future. Same error on second day, same promise. Third day: correct. Perhaps it needs to be in the "Slow" classroom....
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