Someone like me who heard how cool raspberry pi was and tried to get one for years and then finally got it this year, but turns out that there’s better stuff out there in the market now
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Pistcow@lemm.ee 7 months ago
But i want to spend 3 hours trying to set up a NES emularor.
At this point, I’m not sure why someone would buy a Pi. I used my Pi 3 for years and got it super cheap on release.
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Pistcow@lemm.ee 7 months ago
They were awesome when they were $30. Nice support, do niche things, but now they’re the same price as a decent Window micro PC without the Linux hastle.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
But I’d have to use Windows with those. 🤢
toynbee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No, you’d have to remove Windows. Much more enjoyable!
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
At this point, I’m not sure why someone would buy a Pi. I used my Pi 3 for years and got it super cheap on release.
You mean why anyone would buy a new Pi that is not a Pi3 ? Pi4 can boot from USB meaning that the usage of a SD card can be omitted completely. Not sure a Pi3 can do that or do that easily ?
kueckieben@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I’m using a Pi 3B+ this way, booting from a usb nvme enclosure. It probably works with the 3B as well.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I deeply regret my pi5 purchase. Here I was hoping to use it as a low power application server but I cannot get Ethernet workind reliably after a hot reboot. Seems to be a distro agnostic issue, though I acknowledge this could be a part failure.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 months ago
I’m the opposite, my Pi 5 is my favourite thing!
vikingtons@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m glad it’s working for you. I’m wondering if my issues will be resolved in the future by firmware upgrades (also holding out for uboot updates anyway). Not giving up on it just yet.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 months ago
Is there a thread or bug report about your issues? That’s definitely something you need to be active about them resolving.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I don’t know if you’ve already tried this, but I’ve had weird behavior with older Pi3s when the power supplies weren’t up to snuff.
A good 5V/10A (yeah I know they only need 5A) sorted out one of mine that had a heavy load of Neopixels running on it, even though the neopixels had their own 5V supply.
I haven’t needed to get a Pi5 for any of my projects and really use them as big arduinos in certain uses (better for camera detection and remote reprogramming).
vikingtons@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s a fair point. I’m using the first party power supply but I could experiment with several others.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Before you throw the pi5 out, buy a USB Ethernet adapter ? I have a few of them and they work well with Linux and BSD.
Cort@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah from what I’ve seen of Jeff geerling’s testing it can use all of a 2.5g and about 3.5 of a 5gbit adapter
vikingtons@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This sounds promising, thank you for the info
vikingtons@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s not a bad idea. I can give that a try for sure. I’m guessing the power implications here are minimal as well?
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I’m guessing the power implications here are minimal as well?
That’s an interesting point I didn’t think about.I don’t know and I have no gadget to test that.Once I’ve left the USB Ethernet adapter in a smart phone and forgot to take it out thought I did take the Ethernet cable out. The next day I saw that the phone had used a lot of battery power.I guess the phone kept talking to the adapter and the build in small light.I have one adapter without a light so I can test how much battery that would roughly consume, just out of curiosity.
Album@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
At the ever increasing cost of the pi and how limiting it is, the n100 is a no brainer.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Depends on the use case I guess.I prefer to have an ARM based SBC to play with (rather than an Intel based box) to test different Linux distributions and BSD without GUI.
Album@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
There’s gotta be a bunch of niche cases why a pi is better - but generally…not.
What usecase is arm based linux and bsd all that important? Outside of arm dev - probably not much.
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Perhaps you are thinking in best and better and what most people want. For me there is something like curiosity (Not very uncommon in the open source world) and learning new things.Besides that I am not very amused about Intel and their Spectre and Meltdown failures which is still not a closed book with new attacks being reported in the news.For hobby and work, computer security and privacy is something that I cannot neglect.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 7 months ago
Power consumption