Gareth Halfacree2d ago

It's #Hackster round-up time, and your five today starts with the DSTIKE-DA - a compact ESP32-powered Bluetooth speaker (3W, mono)... in a gumstick format. Yeah, with a USB Type-A connector on the end.

https://www.hackster.io/news/travis-lin-s-dstike-da-is-an-espressif-esp32-powered-bluetooth-speaker-with-an-unusual-form-factor-6552ddb295b1

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Travis Lin's DSTIKE-DA Is an Espressif ESP32-Powered Bluetooth Speaker with an Unusual Form Factor

"Gumstick"-style speaker is powered over a USB Type-A plug, meaning wire-free connections to power banks and more.

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Show threadGareth Halfacree2d ago

Then Canonical, with the announcement that #Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will need 6GB of RAM minimum - up from 4GB for previous versions.

Weirdly, this now gives Ubuntu a higher minimum RAM requirement than Windows 11, which will officially run on 4GB.

I mean, not *well*, but it's the official minimum.

https://www.hackster.io/news/canonical-bumps-ubuntu-26-04-lts-s-system-requirements-now-asks-for-6gb-of-ram-1ccc21e4a370

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Canonical Bumps Ubuntu 26.04 LTS's System Requirements, Now Asks for 6GB of RAM

Jump from a 4GB minimum requirement comes at a time when RAM prices are skyrocketing thanks to the AI bubble's insatiable demand.

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@ghalfacree oh great, I wonder what vibe-coded privacy-destroying corpo-bloaty AI slop they put in to choke out us 2010 netbook users who for some reason are still using full-fat Ubuntu with just 4 GB of RAM
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