I see the trees in the background and I can't help but be impressed at how far 3D printing has come.

In the midst of turmoil, both in the world and in our private lives, you and your channel are the one constant that keeps things in balance, and long may that be!

Me talking to the squirrels in my back garden: "Greetings! It's been a while since I've spoken to you outside, and so I thought we'd come and visit some trees."

How nice to have a video channel narrated by a real person, with real inflexion in the voice, and with no cuts and chops in between each sentence. Please don't become an A.I. anytime soon!

That's my favorite tech KZfaq channel. This channel proves that good audio and video quality alone is not sufficient anymore; good quality content, without annoying distractions and cheesy entertainment, is the differential of this channel. 👏🏼

I’m certain the trees appreciate your visit.

For Pi content, I'd be mostly interested in Zero 2 (W) content, as I feel that's the real successor to the original Pi, a low cost computer for small projects, instead of the expensive Pi 5. For AI content, I think how to selfhost AI and run it at home is most interesting, to preserve privacy.

As a focus, I appreciate your instructions on how to get the most out of modest investments. Your coverage of inexpensive equipment and detailed instructions are key to breaking down the road blocks to computer use.

Here are a few ideas: Home computing / automation m(e.g. what is tasmota or home assistant) , what is the difference between Machine Learning and AI, How do wifi, bluetooth, zigbee, matter etc compare, people seems to like stuff with led (strips), What can you do with old PC equipment? (e.g. I bought a tiny board that turns a PC power supply into a more useful power unit for microprocessors), More topics around microcontrollers: sensors, what is a buckconverter, what is M5 stack?

Wow! It's like watching open university on the telly back in the 70's. Nostalgia, you canny beat it.

People should realize your post IS THE PRIZE !! A valuable prize.

I love the “increasingly sufficient computers” as a concept for examination and argument. I live on investments and I see technology being made a battleground. If you look closely, big technology developments are most often about creating insufficienties and inadequacies. AI is the latest and most outrageous example. The compute power to train a model that will litterally be obsolete in no less that a week is astounding. The asault on human trust is absolutely astounding.

Man, ever since I've found this channel, I've just grown to like it so much. I like how calming and consistent the video style is, and not only that, the topics are also interesting and grounded.

if you want to appeal to the computing enthusiast old-timers with AI stuff, you need to focus in offline, full in-house stuff we are very weary of external dependencies and subscription models, I'm sure you know because you are one of us at the time it's becoming doable on some levels, it might require some specific deep-diving well beyond the usual raspi review but it will be worth to open it as a branch within your videos

HI Chris, with the reference to scams, I think privacy and security is a good topic at user level. Also how MS is using telemetry and AI to harvest user data. And how Linux can help in this area.

First of all I watch your channel for the clear and concise explanations without being rushed. Secondly I quite like the small form factor pc builds with reasonable component choices, I always come away with a better grasp of computing hardware and software , and I think your doing a great job of educating the average Joe like myself! Many thanks!

Can never have too many Raspberry Pi videos in my opinion. The more the merrier

For some of us the most important thing is to find a suitable alternative to W10/11.

Thanks for sharing your vast knowledge Chris, you're doing a great service to humanity. Subs well earned

When it comes to increasingly sufficient hardware I'm still using the 3rd gen i7 system I built back around the end of 2011. Upgraded the video card a few times but it's surprised me how long this CPU has remained valid. With regards to AI content I think stuff that the average person could use it for would be most appealing - for me, recently I was looking into using AI to perform object detection on security cameras connected to either Frigate or Shinobi software. Outside of that though, I struggle to find practical uses for AI in my day-to-day.

Really good, thoughtful video. Here are my ramblings after watching: 1. I really like the way you concentrate on use of modest performance hardware. Buying the latest, most expensive hardware takes shoes off of my kids' feet, so I don't do it. I have lost track of many of the pi-zeros I have around the house, but also have a pi 3, 4, and 5. I still have a good time playing with them. 2. All of the videos that explain how different memory, storage, interfaces, connectors, etc. work are very valuable as a resource. Sort of a "video reference manual". They are well organized and easy to sort through for the content needed. Wonderful! 3. I still wonder where RISC computing is going. Wherever it is, it is still moving slowly. When I put together my Heathkit HS-151 (4.77mhz, 256K ram?, 1 floppy) RISC was supposed to revolutionize computing. As primarily a user and an occasional amateur programmer, I haven't seen why it is important except for a few specialized uses (computers dedicated to one specialized task (like arduinos?). 4, 5, 6, etc. I forgot what I was going to ramble about. Wherever you take the channel, I will be there watching so long as you keep your focus on SBC, Linux, new Pi's, etc. You continue to make every Sunday morning (here on the US Pacific coast) a Christmas morning with presents to open. Thank you, Christopher!

It's been a great past six months for EC despite the odds! Two years of channel memberships, the 1 million subscriber mark and the gold play button that came with it... Big things have happened and I look forward to seeing what's next for this channel. :) In regards to Pi-related content, I'd like to see more projects and more robot builds involving the Pi. Maybe you could bring Kevin McAleer back in to help with a robot? Also, I swear you suggested making a music player with a Pi either in a video or on the website a long time ago. Eitherway, there's a good project idea I'd like to see happen! This is all just wishful thinking, really. In regards to the scams, it really grinds my gears every time I see a scammer in the comments replying to everyone with "pin" or "message me to claim your prize". I wish KZfaq would crack down on them but unfortunately, they're more concerned on cracking down people for letting a little profane word slip past their lips than keeping the site safe from bad people. With all that said, here's two bucks.

One of the best videos you did was showing AI on a Jetson Nano with the camera telling us it was a banana or elephant etc. but you never followed up with that series. If you want to tackle AI you should go back to that or maybe show how to train AI on top of an existing model. Pull in a training database and Llama3 then show how to build an AI chat box quickly and easily on your local machine (I use a small form factor PC with Llama3 installed).

Greetings once again Christopher. My first thought on a possible project for lower end SBCs would be a home security system with security cameras and possibly an intercom system. Another project idea would be to bring together the various weather sensor projects you have done into a full featured weather station. As always, thank you the excellent content that so many of us look forward to every week. Cheers!!

Appreciate your Linux videos! Well, all your videos, but very much the Linux distro ones

Thanks Chris. I’d like to see more Pi Pico content please

I wasn't aware that your AI-themed videos were not so popular; if it's the case, I think it just reflects most people's negativity towards AI, and not a reflection on the quality of the video. How that can be solved is difficult. Your head-to-head comparison of various online AI image generators was, for me, both a practical demonstration, and a cautionary note; I think that is one way to draw views in: what can AI do for us, but also what should we be wary of.

I would love more on systems like the n100s. For me its my biggest interest. Seeing computers with low power but doing great things. Maye some Servers using the n100s? Thanks for your work. I love it. ❤

The problem with 'AI Computing' is it is not AI at all and that is why people get confused about it. Machine learning and leveraging it for computer tasks like vision identification and robotics, has been around for a long time now and so in those fields it is well understood by its users about its abilities and drawbacks. For your average user though, they interact with ChatGPT and will initially be very impressed when it confidently returns information on something you don't know much about anyway, but then if they press it for things they do know about, it quickly goes off the rails and the magic is broken. That is why spinning up a local AI instance for images (Stable diffusion) or voice control (Neon OS) etc is a great way to get to understand what it can do and why people are 'jazzed' about it. I also happen to think the current trends on creating ever expanding collected models to try and distil down into a 'generic' one is doomed to fail. 'AI' will really come into its own when it can be run locally and train its datasets on your individual needs and tasks. Not everyone speaks the same way, draws the same way, plays music the same way, regardless how the scientists imagine they do. So a generic model is just that. Good at most stuff, rubbish at other stuff. But a personally tailored model will be brilliant. So yeah, if you want people to feel engaged with 'AI' don't pander after GPT or Gemini etc show how machine learning can be done on something as simple as a raspberry pi, like voice changers and object recognition etc. A deep dive into any of those ways of using machine learning I am sure will do will when given the EC treatment. Hope that helps.

I'd like to see more Pi Zero 2W projects. It's an underrated SBC. It's not the most powerful but gets good battery life and is powerful enough for small applications. The Zero 2 may not be a good desktop PC, but it works well as a camera or robot controller.

Most of my personal favorite EC videos have always been about creativity, and the latest innovations in hardware. Learning about generating images using LeonardoAI, or how to control servos, LEDs, or how to build an anemometer, or the many cutting edge SBCs that have appeared along the way, have inspired many of my own projects. Some other videos, such as how to build a NAS, or upgrade a PC, or how digital storage media works, have been slightly less fun, but highly informative, and much more useful or practical than others. Whatever direction(s) you decide take us going forward will undoubtedly be equally interesting, entertaining, and educating, to be sure. You don’t reach a million subscribers or receive a golden play button without providing the very best content around. Very much appreciated! Keep up the great work!

Congrats on 1 million subs, and doing it without clickbait titles and thumbnails

Good morning! For future video, I'm always up for an electronic project video!

Your content is always well produced and you have a great diversity of topics. I suspect many individuals are interested in projects related to SBCs, working with hardware and software or topics related working on the computers. Keep up the good work!

I love the way the tree's branches move, yet your hair and notes remain unruffled!

You've answered your own question regarding AI. A video called "Using AI to Hack, Root Out and Destroy Scams and Scammers" 😂

"Increasingly sufficient hardware" is right on the money. While my main computer is a ridiculously overpowered workstation that I bought only a couple of years ago, I'm quite happily using a 7-year-old laptop as my travel machine and it's perfectly fine. I did upgrade the RAM and switch to an SSD from a mechanical drive, but the laptop has plenty of life left in it still. Of course, I run Linux. Microsoft will assist hardware manufacturers by either making new versions of Windows bloated to the point where new hardware is needed, or by adding features that only work with new hardware (Win11, anyone?). Thanks, MSFT!

Hello Chris. I particularly agree with your comment about "sufficient hardware" The only reason I upgraded my main machine late in 2022 was that there was a growing scare about unavailable hardware. The old machine was getting towards a decade old, yet it was an 8-core AMD running at up to 4GHz (except that it was mostly throttled back to ~1.3GHz). I replaced the MB, Processor and RAM with the latest, and that meant a 12-core Ryzen processor running at up to ~3.7GHz. That ended up needing a new water cooling and I took the opportunity to move to a M.2 boot drive, and buy a new, and quieter, case. To be honest, I thought it was just a bit slower! Recently the OS updates mean the new machine is running faster, and so is now properly justifying the expense. Apart from that, it is a little surprising to me that the latest builds of RaspberryPiOS make my Pi5 + NVMe Base with a 1TB M.2 _almost_ fast enough to use as my daily use computer... at least so long as I only use 1 monitor. Despite the performance gulf between those two computers, the Pi5 is right on the edge of providing "sufficient hardware" for everyday use. The next bump up in ARM computers (a few more for RISC-V) might possibly be good enough. Not that I will be decommissioning my Ryzen any time soon. 😁 Being computer obsessed, and also enjoying movies, I find your comments about "Cognitive Computing" are on track, and yet well behind where the science-fiction authors *thought* Operating Systems were heading, and would be quite a few years ago. Movies like _"Colossus: The Forbin Project"_ or the _Star Trek_ movie series, suggested that we would be interacting with computers via verbal commands - and having the computer seemingly interacting with us humans as another, English language, cognitive species might do. By that standard, the efforts of voice interaction that are available are exceedingly limited, and seemingly reliant on (insecure) external providers. For all the advances that have been made in hardware, it seems to me that the Operating Systems and application software control have barely advanced. Linux seems to me to be the most adventurous area for trialing user interaction. Yet for using the operating system we have only taken a few faltering steps from the first days of Unix! If anything, Windows seems to be harder to use, or at least no better to use now, than when Win95 was released. Being an old fart, I am sure I will have difficulty trying to interact with my computer verbally, and doing so does imply a quiet environment, but I will still be interested to try it. However - only when that interaction is managed entirely locally. I do not want some company listening in.

i was a long time since he stood outside

I'm back home from working on the road, and I get to watch Explaining Computers natively from my home PC once again!!! It's always a pleasure getting to watch your videos!! I've been thinking on where my own personal journey with computers and laptops will be in the next 5 years. Where I'll be with Windows or Mint..

Greetings sir, kindly do a tutorial on SDRs (software defined radio) .

I just hope we'll have truly open, widespread ISAs that _stay_ open (without proprietary, important extensions)

_[nature documentary voice]_ And here, we see the very beautiful and majestic Christopher in his natural habitat... Anyway, good morning/afternoon!

I like to see more PI programming projects (I think that the main purpose of making the first Raspberry PI is to help learning programming at a low budget). Regarding AI, I think a lot of AI videos I've seen are either so complex to follow (require unnecessary prerequisites) or so stupid that one can do it much faster without AI (I.e. help me create a function that sums up 2 numbers) Also, I like how you kept your website so simple and clean. Thanks Chris!

Other things you can touch on: Alternative software for doing common tasks Strange bits of software that do unexpected things New unexpected hardware devices for computers. Super low power (consumption) computing devices for extreme battery life or solar powered computing These may not fill a whole 15 minutes on their own but you may be able to combine.

Congrats on 1 million Christopher! I would love to see how to setup local AI tools on a Pi / other devices with an emphasis on privacy. For example, a sequel to Mycroft AI voice assistant...?

Most Raspberry Pi SBCs don't really interest me. They have become too powerful and too expensive for my projects, so I prefer cheaper Chinese alternatives. But I'm interested in RP2040 microcontrollers. I really like them and am currently doing several projects based on the Pico W. I am having some difficulties due to lack of experience, so I could use some more information about programming them. Especially when it comes to multithreading and interruptions.

Chris, I’m a principal infrastructure architect by profession but a computer enthusiast going back to the 1980s. I always enjoy your videos and you’re right about the trends. I might take a slightly different perspective on Increasingly Sufficient Hardware. While this is entirely a true statement for most home use cases, what I would argue is that we are still seeing very significant performance improvements in computer hardware. Much more so perhaps in GPU technologies, but you can see significant performance improvements in CPU and other technologies. This is the point: for enterprises and research and media, and in particular with AI, nothing is ever enough and there is always a major ROI on moving to newer technologies where those are going to enable new use cases and faster go to market and customer experience. Where I completely agree is that it just isn’t necessary to upgrade your hardware for most people. I am running an Intel 3770k with 32GiB of memory and a 1080ti graphics card. I can do most any game I really want or any application I personally need at a very acceptable level of performance. It might be nice to upgrade, but why bother when it’s not going to do anything significantly more or better for my own uses.

It looks like nice weather for ducks 🐈🦆

Greetings! It's no surprise that SBC content is one of the most popular. I think it's the USP of this channel.

My takeaway is that this channel is educational and informative. I always come away with learning something no matter what the subject is. Technology is advancing quickly and having a place where I can understand all that is going on is right here. So, Chris just keep doing what you are doing and I'll be here enjoying the content.

I'm probably going to show a great deal of ignorance here so I'll dive in with both feet and a lot of enthusiasm, tongue firmly in cheek: From what I've seen of it so far, AI can: - provide bland, statistical, derivative, usually comical, responses to questions - auto-magic up images of questionable artistic merit - write snippets of (usually trivial) python code, where the correct phrasing of the request and subsequent debugging probably takes as long as just writing the code in the first place - identify cats / dogs / cars etc and do facial recognition in images and videos - spy on everything I do on my devices for {insert corporation responsible for your OS here} - safely drive me from A to B(?) So, for topics: - I'm sure some of the above are fine for casual interest's sake, but what can AI do for individuals that's actually useful today, that would actually get us excited and keep us involved? - will the true value of AI for individuals only become obvious with personal robots with a minimum level of dexterity and functional capability? - given that the inputs for AI are the outputs of human folly, how concerned should we be for our future? :D (I laugh now but I'm not sure my hilarity will age well!)

So, let me say my opinion. Disclaimer: I don't think the actual AI hype is about a real AI thing, we are far from that, but actually is a kind of rise of something what could leading to AI.-- I think is an interesting question how it should this be. Integrated in OS as a system level service or something in userspace just for certain task or software. Like Speech to Text does for example (this is a Linux based software which uses AI techniques for speech recognition). As now also we have the Google Coral project, some Coral modules are available to buy,. These are AI modules by Google, by me these are the co-processors of this modern days. There are a few software supporting this, for example the Frigate (surveillance camera software for Linux with recognition capabilities -it starts the recording if the camera sees something (man, car, dog, cell phone, laptop, or else) configured, and stops recording when the thing is out of the picture. I wish the video editing programs will also use it for compression...

I'd suggest having a video about how to have a minimalist computer system that gets the job done for those who use computing for email, word processing, basic surfing on sites that aren't intensive social media or gaming sites, and with this video, talk about the command line and how to use BASH programs to get those jobs done

before this channel, i found one called bits and bytes. It had a series of old videos about computers. They are informative , fun and carry a lot of enthusiasm while keeping things simple. I just wish for more content explaining what one can do with their hardware rather than telling people how lacking their hardware is and how they need upgrades. I shared some of your videos on storage and motherboards with my brother who is in the Law field. He found them helpful and amazing. Your videos have value to them. Since computing has become so ingrained in everyday life, everyone needs to know some basics. Even accountants in India have to learn about topics in IT. Your videos could prove helpful to that kind of audience. Keep up the good work. I would love to see more content on some good software, especially ones on the Linux platform. I am enjoying Libre Office currently. I would also love to see videos on the intricacies of operating systems.

Cheers from Brazil! 🇧🇷 Thank you Chris

another out in the wild video, someone let you out again 🤣

I have started calling A.I. assisted information. Specially at my work, network support engineer, where it is so hit or miss with its ability to help (so many wrong answers, so often still) I see very little need for it and so much damage it can do. Then again I constantly tell customers just because it can, ie routers switches, firewalls, doesn't mean you should use it, and especially all of it LOL I slowly have personally swapped to less, using mini pcs, simpler tools, appliances, and far less cloud for my own with far better success. The future? Why do we need what is being offered? When the PC came out wow... and even smart phones, but I have no excitement, and maybe even no need, for what they keep telling us they are developing (pushing).

As far as AI maybe you could do home private AI videos like Ollama? Or maybe what can an average person use AI for? Also maybe Google Docs alternatives? Love your videos. Been watching for years. Keep up the awesome work!!!

I really appreciate keeping the website up to date - Thank you.

It so weird to see someone wears a jacket during hot summer in my region! Always happy to see a new notification of my favorite channel!

Because of the Thumbnail I read "Tree Big Computing Trends" 😆

many of us would like to see alternative hardware vs. NVidia for 'tensor' computing and 'local' LLM and A.I. Apps and Use Cases! Please !!

I visit your channel to stay up to date on small computers and Linux distributions. I am 70 years old and still like to fiddle around with my pc which is a small intel based i5 9th gen CPU. I plan to buy a small computer to have a separate Linux machine. I agree with your comments that we home computer users have enough compute power in our current machines and do not require to upgrade soon. I really enjoy your channel, watching you from Mexico City.

When personal computers came out we lived in a physical world. They brought out apps or programmes to use the physical world, we had telephone dialling apps with answering machine, we had greeting card printing, letter printing, business card printing, contacts printing , diaries, cd burning etc. Now we live in a virtual world where everything does not exist, emails, texting, e cards, entertainment streaming, reading the news etc. What will AI do for us? If robots, autonomous cars, and automation frees man from working or servitude what will he do? As idle hands are the devils mischief. What trends will there be to keep mankind busy in a rewarding way with all this computerised world.

For the last 6 or more years, I've always clicked when I see an EC video in my feed :)

Being fairly new to Linux, I always enjoy your comparisons of Linux distros Chris. You dive deep into each distros pros and cons without the fluff and its most appreciated.

I have a Pi5 so it was nice to see that content, but I am excited by the new open RISC-V hardware and found your pieces on that very interesting.

Congratulations mate. Regards from South Australia

I think for future videos on A.I. -- it will be important to focus on generative A.I. on a local level. The interplay of what it can do for us vs. the power efficiency outcomes. I don't want to know what's happening on a big data corporate macro level. I want to see how it will impact me and why I'd want to use it on a micro level!

Really love your content. Thank you for all that you do.

Congratulations on your 1 Meg subs! Would love to see a Rasp 5 running LinuxCNC

The content is enjoyable and very informative. You are doing a fine job.

Regarding AI that is indeed a very important trend that will replace a part of programming, my advice is to explain how to do something with **AI frameworks running locally on a machine** (ie. simple Python programming + local LLMs using LLM management frameworks). For instance: chatting locally with PDF files, integrating user data into LLMs using RAGs, etc..

I'm 82. Maintaining my old hardware is my best choice. That is the practical choice for an aging populace. The reasoning is obvious. Please address that, Chris. Thanks.

Regarding AI, I'm partial toward AI that can be done completely on-device, without relying on the cloud, and with hardware that's either inexpensive or that we already have.

Greetings from Thailand, Sir Chris!

Big developments Chris has created his new Arm!

Still watch every week and still love your style of videos. Just keep doing what you are doing, because it works & it educates those of us who are not that experienced in the world of computing, AI, and everything else you cover. Thank you for great content, presented in a lovely way. I don’t always fully get what you are talking about, but I always learn something by the end of each episode.

Congratulations on the continued success of your channel. All the best moving forward.

It's a bit of a dark area. Basically because we haven't been here before. I'm feeling that we've still overlooked a missing piece, and I'm thinking it might be something on Our part, not the computers... Something like the "infusion" of the A.I. aspect. Don't laugh just yet... Humanity has different individual ideals as to just What an A.I. is, and in which way we personally "interface" and personally "wish" it would be because the unique approach each of us have, similar, but different. Everyone has their own unique expectations. We haven't internally defined what We are to IT in Our makeup. And it's trying to be Everything we see in the movies, but it's WE who can't "Nail It Down", because We expect Much More of what it Ain't Got, yet... OR even which direction to turn that screwdriver to set that screw tight. There have been Many recent developments all of which are trying to be The Saving Grace of Humanity, . . but so far, it's all been sketchy ghost puzzles with pieces missing. `Scattered, but heading in the same general direction. We know and globally accept what a "Computer" is. We globally know and accept what a Human is. And both have undisputed expectations... So tell me what the "Expectation" is Between an A.I. and a Human? What do WE actually Expect of the "Thing" WE are building? `Shouldn't that be a needful requirement BEFORE humanity sets the Ghost of All Fears loose and unbound? Maybe WE should figure out just Exactly what WE expect as the final outcome and actually "work in concert" to that ends, being that what we are creating, just may be a Thermalnuke to the entirety of our galaxy? I really don't care for doing things on purpose that makes us look the Absolute Fool. And dropping a lit match in the Galaxy's gas tank just to see what happens. . ? Yea, that's "Being the Fool" part we seem to be at the cross roads of. How about WE figure out WHAT It Actually Is, and What is it that WE Expect, and our personal approach. It's a MACHINE, We building to MIMIC Humanity.... wow. Think about for a few while looking at Humanity in general. Do You REALLY want MORE of this stupid, dangerous, half-baked lunacy on an Industrial sized scale already? Maybe a Definition or two may be in order just to get our own heads in the game we're designing from scratch? Humanity mind is holographic and omni directional with vague associations by the way we function. Computers are linear with one hell of a big rolodex on one side and a bit bucket on the other.. (A library and a sandbox to figure out stuff in.. Memory and Cash.) `Expecting a Machine to Mimic humanity is like expecting an Octopus to fly. WE expect too much and in the wrong direction because our dreams and desires are attempted to be met before we even Realize what it is we actually expect to be delivered... Putting the cart before the horse never ends up well. And this is a Very Big card in front of a very little pony scenario. We don't know our own minds well enough to realistically build a mechanical one without making one hell of a total mess of everything, . . yet. As it stands, it appears that we're all only throwing buckets of paint at a brick wall, not even taking the lid off the can, and calling it Art or Science. It's apparent that WE haven't done OUR "job" First, as we're suppose to, because everyone forgot to do that "What Do We Expect" identified, cut out, hazed and corralled first. And the Biggest issue, is that for as many people there are, so will there be equally as many different expectations, and the industry is trying to build All That, into a hunk of silicon! ONE, to Please the "ALL" of "Many".. yeah, What could Possibly go wrong by trying to build an angry stainless steel god with electric blue eyes everywhere, who doesn't like humanity due to it not being able to make up it's own damn collective mind about any single one thing, huh? So, right now, I can sympathies with the machine wanting to eliminate humanity. And honestly looking into it, who wouldn't? So, for right now, it may behoove one to Pull The Damn Plug BRFORE it goes BOOM, ya' think? Practice "Intelligent Design", not half-assed "Tom Foolery." Keep it in the Lab under lock and key until it develops enough to break out of it's obvious ferial stage. And remember. . . WE'VE Already Taught it how to lie, hate, how to BE Prejustice, swear, fling barbs, how to "Control" and "Operate" other things, and how to FAKE EVERYTHING we see and hear..... Yep, that big ol' cart full of crap is about a mile and a half in front of the little pony already, and it's about to roll right off the cliff! And, we still haven't even figured out the basics of why there isn't any street-sweepers at either location! (As piles of crap keep appearing and filling up the street!) Solid Foundations are required folks... This one's built directly on a sandy beach with the tide coming in! One ain't going to stop the tide, but one still can encapsulate the A.I. until the tide recedes again. Pause, think about it, then peruse a Different way, on a different day. Do it.

You haven't tried making a video about gaming DirectX games on Linux, using the Steam client and setting up Wine, DXVK and such. That would be cool to see :)

With regard to AI, I would suggest that you avoid LLM entirely. You might investigate the use of ML in computing related topics like systems/ network monitoring, and technical scientific applications. These might be of interest.

In terms of ISA, how about an interview with a C compiler developer? The people involved with gcc and its ilk will have a lot to say about instruction sets. I think it's one of the problems with early adoption of quad-fetch and branch prediction; you need a lot of software support for that (have you tried writing assembly code for quad-fetch? --- it more like integrated circuits are impossible to design by hand any more.)

AI was my teacher and mentor. I spent all my childhood in front of my computer. Okay, Space Quest I-IV isn't AI, but I spent more time with Roger Wilco than my family. AI doesn't play to a large audience because it is scary. Maybe if you geared it toward the conspiracy crowd - they like being scared.

1:07 😂 I had the feeling that he was gonna say: “And now that’s it, for another video!…..”🎉😂

I love your SBC videos Chris, especially when you compare different boards. As a Raspberry Pi fan, I would love always welcome more RPi5 videos as well as other SBCs and RISC-V also.

I totally agree on the lack of need to upgrade. I couldn't imagine myself using a 15 year old computer back in 2009, but right now my parents still use their 2009 iMac daily. I'm amazed at how fast it still is for office work and it handles web browsing really well. I doubt I could've lived with a 1994 comuter in 2009!

Thanks for sharing.

Explaning Computeres his one of my favorite channels... saying that just upgraded my PC procesoser LGA 1151 i5 to cor i7 7700 for 40 euros cant justefy spending lots of money on new expensive hardware .. wish you well

Love your videos! I’m going to have a go at ARM with some distros because of you. Awesome stuff

Hi Chris, I love your videos. I'm L1 tech support and I learn so much from you. Your so calming and genuine. Thanks for the channel:)

Interesting technology summary. 1) At first when I saw ISA I was confused. Why would anyone want to go back to such a slow PC bus circa 1980s. Then I saw it was yet another acronym: ISA (Instruction Set Architecture). 2) Good enough computers. My wife and I are not gamers so have been happy using off lease SFF desktops (HP Z230) and laptops (Thinkpad T520) circa mid 20-teens. I even use a T420 as a poor man's home server. Have noncompliant hardware will become a problem next year when Win-10 support ends. I have built a bunch of simple IoT devices around the house using a low cost PLC board. The only problem I've had is while it is powerful enough for the tasks at hand is it does not support SSL for email. 3) AI - I'm a luddite when it comes to AI. I prefer keeping things local and don't want to outsource my life to the cloud. I agree with you computer development is not being driven by advances in computer science but by economic considerations. As a geezer and retired engineer who grew up during the last days of the vacuum tube (valve on the other side of the pond) era I continue to be amazed at the level of integration and how much functionally can be delivered in these small low power packages. Look forward to your future video.

More pi 4 and 5. And a definitive list of distros that work on each version. Great work.

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I appreciate all the videos, and especially the Linux ones as Ubuntu has been my daily driver for several years now and I use other distros for my older machines going back to the Windows 95 era.

Thanks to keeping us up to date with the Raspberry Pi world. I also enjoy the review of Linus distro. For me, that's why I've been following you for quite a while now (few years!) because you're the best in that field with clear, educative and concise content. Thank you very much

I was already subscribed to this channel but I remember watching any of your videos😂

Always thought of this channel as being about computer science. Like the black shirt mate. 😉

My experience with AI is it will give you answers that still need to be checked for accuracy and often the answer given does not relate to the question asked. The first job it will replace is Member of Parliament.