I wonder how hard it is to create a really sturdy USB-C plug. The connector on all of the USB-C cables I have does seem a little flimsy.

I have an YubiKey 5 NFC on the keychan and it has handled the abuse over the years just fine.

How so? When replanting clear cuts here in Sweden with pine or fir each tree takes a few seconds to plant - you stamp your tool in to the ground which makes a hole, drop the plant down, stomp the ground and then your off to the next. There is also no need to tend to them afterwards (except treatment to deter deer/elks).

Which is a scattergun approach, no? What's the survival rate? I'd guess 1:100 if you're not tending them.

But, in Ethiopia many of those trees are going to need watering, surely? Protecting from people gathering firewood?

Sweden and Ethiopia seem pretty different wrt tree planting?

Definitely a scattergun approach but that’s similar to how nature does it, I’ve heard the survival rate for seedlings in north American confirer forests to be about 1:1,000,000.

Is that for natural or manual (eg from helicopter) scattering?

Natural. Each year a forest may produce hundreds of millions of seeds but only a few thousand saplings survive.

You do it like this https://youtu.be/VbBDX9ySk60 , 80-90% survival rate is common

Exactly. A low end micro-controller would do the trick but a Raspberry Pi is much more accessible - almost anyone can get one fairly quickly and if they themselves don't have the knowledge to do the setup they most likely know someone who can help.

ATmega micro-controllers also have great community support and documentation because of their use in Arduinos. If I was relying on an electronic device to protect my health I'd trust a simple 8-bit device more than something as complex as a Raspberry Pi.

If I was relying on an electronic device to protect my health I‘d trust my garbage collected code on a 64 bit ARM CPU using real CPU timers way more than my own ability to not segfault or OOM myself to death (literally) with low-level embedded C code.

YMMV.

Segfaulting and OOM on MCU's is far more rare than on a device with an entire operating system on top.

In most cases, MCU IDE's like the classic Arduino one don't even give you an allocator, all data must be statically allocated beforehand.

IIRC it doesn't use the stack either. The main() and loop() functions initialize all their variables statically.

When you have 2KB of memory to share between code, data and stack, allocating and using stack for function calls is luxury that only introduces problems.

Hence, I've never ever ever seen an MCU crash from segfaults or OOMs.

On the plus side they will also use vastly less energy. 10 Milliamps is enough to drive a ESP8266 or ESP32, in deep sleep you start counting microamps. A single battery cell can easily last a month.

I learnt a little a few years ago while setting up monitoring and building a "Parakeet" [0] for a relative. I think the Nightscout foundation [1][2] should be a good start. I believe they are very active in their Facebook group.

[0] https://jamorham.github.io/

[1] http://www.nightscoutfoundation.org/

[2] http://www.nightscout.info/

Yes, the "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" was unfortunately reset for me too.

Mine seems fine. My currently open tabs are still in their containers, and when I open a new tab, my list of choices is still intact.

Yes, the Raspberry Pi models are a little confusing, especially with the '+' versions and PCB-revisions. But I don't think the purpose of the parent comment was to say that it was worse than others, more of a heads-up to someone looking to order a model to take a second look and verify the specifications.

Isn't "True Love Waits" detected as the most depressing? The happiest one is "15 steps".

Thanks for the documentary link!

Logs which showed which towers a specific cellphone was connected to was important evidence in the 1999 murder case covered by the SERIAL podcast.

I guess that it is a "Firefox issue". I have the same problem with Firefox under Windows 7 (2560x1440, newly calibrated screen). The font renders a little better in Chrome and in IE 11 it looks good.