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I’d imagine JavaScript heavy sites are pretty miserable on the Pi even the latest models.
As a javascript dev myself which write javascript heavy websites, I think all of my sites would perform just fine on a raspberry pi, at least on the newer models. What I am most afraid of is the editing experience mostly.
I do use Raspberry Pi 400 for accessing other machines via SSH and browser. Lack of memory really limits being able to replace a lot of desktop workflows, so I still do most of my work on a i7 powered LG Gram 17 that runs Kubuntu. The Pi is significantly slower than four year old i5 MBP and way slower than the i7 for building node apps and compiling Go... but, it's fast enough it could be usable. I do love the keyboa…
I tried. I just wanted a machine on my workbench to run a web browser. I got the best Raspberry Pi, a case, and plugged it into an old 24" monitor. Cost me about $80-100. It worked fine. It could even play a 1080p YouTube video. However, everything lagged. The most painful thing was that it took several seconds to render a website when it's normally instantaneous. I found it quite frustrating to use, so I ended up bu…
Could have been the browser? Or the network interface? Did you ever figure out why?
It might have been lack of GPU. Moving windows around the screen was also really painful, probably 1-2 fps render rate as I dragged. I know browsers off-load a lot to GPUs these days too, so that could explain the slow browser rendering.
Sevarg has done it https://www.sevarg.net/2019/12/14/building-raspberry-pi-4-de... It’s totally doable from what I understand and sips tiny amounts of power. An M1 may be better but I don’t know if it can get as low power.
A bit over a month ago, I began supporting the Pi 4/400 (possibly some of the earlier?) with my audio plugins (VST2.4, which Reaper etc. can use). So new plugins automatically include a Pi build, but also all nearly-300 previous plugins are included, and I got to test out a full mix on RPI Reaper.
But I don't have an interface for it, I had to use the HDMI output to get audio. But I could still run Reaper and use that output… so I brought in a mix I'd made on an iMac Pro (not the hugest, about 14 tracks but all 24/96 and not intended to be CPU-friendly at all)
Turned out it played back just fine on the Pi, though the project rate was forced to 48k. That meant all the files (I think?) were resampled on the fly to fit into the downsampled project, which doesn't make the process more efficient. But the whole thing played fine… off a Sandisk SD card, not an SSD.
If I had an interface that I could record with, I'd be able to do music production work on a Pi. I'd probably want to lean on tracking external instruments, analog synths and such rather than leaning heavily on softsynths. I'm also eager to get Renoise working on the Pi, though I've had no luck with it yet. Renoise exporting individual tracks to be mixed in Reaper and have more tracks overdubbed, is a workflow that really clicks with me, and in theory the whole thing can run on a Pi 4.
I have the whole plugin collection here for anyone else into music production on the Pi 4: again, this is a bit over a month ago, didn't exist before then. https://www.airwindows.com/raspberry-pi/
I tried. I just wanted a machine on my workbench to run a web browser. I got the best Raspberry Pi, a case, and plugged it into an old 24" monitor. Cost me about $80-100. It worked fine. It could even play a 1080p YouTube video. However, everything lagged. The most painful thing was that it took several seconds to render a website when it's normally instantaneous. I found it quite frustrating to use, so I ended up bu…
I tried. I just wanted a machine on my workbench to run a web browser. I got the best Raspberry Pi, a case, and plugged it into an old 24" monitor. Cost me about $80-100. It worked fine. It could even play a 1080p YouTube video. However, everything lagged. The most painful thing was that it took several seconds to render a website when it's normally instantaneous. I found it quite frustrating to use, so I ended up bu…
I've been working from home using a RPi 4B hooked up to a large monitor as a thin client for the last two years, first using Remmina and now mostly running VMWare Horizon client. The only thing I am not using it for is video conferencing.
surfing the web is a pain. I use a phone for webmail stuff, otherwise fallback to tui. rpi400 with alpine 64bit, external 1To SSD usb 3.
why is it a "pain"?
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People have long been fascinated with "alternative" architectures for general purpose computing but most of the time you pay a little bit less (1/2) but pay dearly in terms of performance (more than 1/5 compared to a low end laptop.) It has a lot to do with why cable boxes suck. ARM is the first architecture in 20 years that competes with x86 on reasonably priced machines. (e.g. IBM POWER and IBM z are pretty quick b…
> ARM is the first architecture in 20 years that competes with x86 on reasonably priced machines. (e.g. IBM POWER and IBM z are pretty quick but you can't afford them) What about the PPC Macs? Yes, they were bad enough that Apple had to switch to x86—not exactly a ringing endorsement—but I'd say they were at least somewhat competitive , no?
SPARC was almost viable for a desktop machine in the early 00's, I had one under my desk that I was running a Sun Ray server on. We were hoping to use Sun Rays to provide access to the online catalog and other web resources but after Netscape became a non-viable web browser we were never able to get Mozilla to build on SPARC. It could have been ported but we didn't have the resources and nobody else bothered to do it. SPARC was slipping too and the price was not right.