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  • Prose literacy: Can you read a newspaper article and understand the main points?

    Document literacy: Can you fill out a job application or interpret a map?

    Quantitative literacy: Can you balance a checkbook or understand a chart with multiple data points?

    Someone reading at a 6th-grade level can handle most day-to-day reading tasks. They can read their prescription bottles, follow basic instructions, and understand straightforward news articles.

    What they struggle with is synthesizing complex information from multiple sources, drawing inferences from technical documents, or navigating websites with multiple layers of information.




  • Price? Tiny/mini/micro PC

    Simple sensor use? ESP32

    Complex GPIO? Arduino is still a cheap option if you dont need it too standalone.

    Straight up pi-alikes? OrangePi is my preferred

    Most of what I personally use is esp32s and tiny/mini/micro. TMM for servers and services, esp32s for sensors, interfaces, prototyping, etc. If I need something fully standalone thats going to go in a rack or whatever, needs to be small and have all the GPIO, thats where I’ll use an orangpi, clockwork, whatever. Ive even used a tinkerboard or a Jetson (client paying obviously, because screw those prices and nvidia).