I have the same setup on 2 pis, and even on a 3b+ I've found it's easier to just put a cheap little microSD card in to hold the bootloader than to try to get USB boot working.
The Pi3b+ can boot of USB without any SD card. Can also do this on previous model https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
but as you can read, that would make a permanent change to enable via a one time programmable bit and remove the ability to boot from SD card.
Though as you have the 3b+, then you have none of that dilemma and it will just boot, done it myself.
Another important thing to mention: if you're compiling and logging to the sd card, buy a lot of them because they'll die on you. They're not designed for this many writes.
I have one of the larger ones (3 usb + Ethernet). I received it as a gift and was originally skeptical of the usefulness of the usb ports vs the size tradeoff, but it turns out to be super useful. It stays on my desk with my mouse, keyboard, and printer plugged in, and acts as a pseudo-dock for my laptop. Very nice!
There's the Nexdock / Nexdock 2 [0], if to be believed that will be shipping later this year, And some other projects listed here in a Purism thread [1]
Is the opposite of what? Wrong variable was asking for a laptop without compute part to which they could strap a Pi. That’s exactly what the Nexdock is at least.
India prior to the Brits, should be a case study in how to integrate places like the Rust Belt in US, Afghanistan into global trade.
Each village was an autonomous unit of production that traded directly with nearby villages, silk road and through merchant ships with the world. ( In some cases they had their own local currency ! )
A single village could be directly linked to markets in Europe and China, or form part of a supply chain of villages to larger markets. Shenzen is similar being a SEZ, allowing it to trade directly with any unit across the globe.
It is kinda ironic that we went from a more libertarian trade system to a more restrictive one, as technology helped the state exert more control.
Places like the Rust belt can't directly trade with Kenya, they have to go through hordes of middle men.
Same thing happens in inner India, even though its filled with excess cheap labor in close proximity.
I have no idea what you're on about but this lept out at me as being very obviously wrong:
> Places like the Rust belt can't directly trade with Kenya, they have to go through hordes of middle men.
"The Rust Belt" can pretty easily trade with Kenya, thanks to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. I'm sitting in my office in the "rust belt," looking out at a shipping channel that accommodates ships from Europe pretty routinely.
If we're using "middlemen," e.g. relying on rail to bring Kenyan products across Africa to one of its western ports, or relying on rail to bring those products from an Eastern US port, it's because that is inherently more economical. There aren't "hordes" of middlemen involved.
The only technology needed for this to happen was a common understanding of language. The only people you can't trade with are those you can't communicate with. And cities can issue their own currency; they just can't convince anybody to use it.
I would argue that the trade system is far less restrictive because you can easily trade globally rather than only locally. You also can't get away with pillaging/defrauding your neighbors and calling it 'trade' anymore.
It sounds like what you're really wanting is a freer economic environment - the idea of small autonomous regions having the ability to issue their own currencies, for instance.
That said, though I strongly suspect that we're very close to each other w/r/t sociopolitical views, I don't think your overall assertion here makes sense. As others have said, someone in the Rust Belt can in fact trade directly with someone in Kenya today.
> It is kinda ironic that we went from a more libertarian trade system to a more restrictive one, as technology helped the state exert more control.
I don't think technology has had much to do with this, certainly not until the last handful of decades. My intuition is that tech didn't start having a huge impact on the scale of governments until mechanization in the early 20th Century, and didn't really take off until the advent of databases for managing entire populations' worth of data in the 1930s. Even now, with the seemingly exponential increase in surveillance power driven by advances in tech, I'm not so sure that a century from now that technology will be seen as a force driving the growth of state power. In fact, I believe the opposite will be true.
Look me up on social media somewhere. I almost always use my real name as a username, and it's very nearly unique. I'd love to have a longer-term conversation about how technology has increased the relative power of the individual - from prehistory (when a faction's military power was measured directly in how many fighters it could field) to today (when a single individual can occupy a populated region's police and military forces nearly indefinitely).
The problem with QE is you will have QEn. Everyone will do QE on their economies. We don't have any accountability. During the 2008 crisis, we were told this is the right thing to do. And we keep doing it.
We're not at the stage where half of the society is unemployed and hoarding gold. We're at the stage where everyone is doing QE on their economies.
Having full employment for the sake of full employment is dumb. That's the same as communism.
The goldbugs all said the fed and its helicopter money would have lead to hyperinflation at this point. Well every major central bank in the world did QE and it didn't happen, inflation barely cracked 5% if I recall? And quickly retreated from there.
The QE technique is interesting and new. They write up the money on Fed book as liability without pumping printed money into the economy. I think it's recently possible because our money is mostly digital now. You can look at US national debt clock. It's there.
I think inflation is shifted into debt on Fed book. Between having some inflation and blowing up the debt, I think having some inflation is better now. You don't want to load up all your risks in a central book. But our political class doesn't want this. They want to keep loading up debt. We'll then have a QE race between nations. Maybe, at some point, we come to love each other and burn our debt on each other books. JK, that'll never happen :)
Normally you want credit to flow from richer parts of the world to poorer parts of the world - where there is a lot more potential for growth.
NNIT is meaningless metric for larger countries.
China is a net creditor because they have certain national interest, their large credit position provides a buffer in international trade.
US acts a gold vault in international trading, China has certain industries that "generate gold" but their main focus is meeting the demand for their domestic market, just like most other countries in the list.
