Still Ethernet via USB 2.0, which means it is not actually gigabit.
I also noticed that. It's only ~280 megabits so seems a bit dishonest to call it gigabit. I guess what they mean is "gigabit ethernet standard" i.e. 1000BASE-T. Also how does it act once its internal receive buffer is full? Is it possible to get the sender to slow down, or does it have to start dropping frames? Will important things such as ARP broadcasts and DHCP requests just risk getting lost?
Probably it supports L2 pause frames (type of flow control) just like nearly any other ethernet device?
That's what I suggest people to use now. The USB microphone needs power and one more USB port. If the Pi had a microphone input, we would have absolutely no need for the second USB port. Not having to have the second USB port means we would need no chip for the 4-port hub. Having the distro supporting the Pi Zero that has 1 USB port has been something I've been dreaming about.
How about an I2S microphone [1]? Or a PDM microphone [2]? These hook up to GPIOs. [1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3421 [2] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3492
That's another something I don't know that I don't know!
> Here’s a long post. [...] If you don’t have time to read it all, we recommend you watch this video The video is 1 minute long. The article is ~84 lines, ~8 KB of text. Is that really long?
If you're not a native English speaker, I imagine the video may be preferable to the article.
Quite the opposite if you learnt English by reading. Text is so much easier to comprehend, you can easily go back and forward, choose your speed, pause, check definitions (the "Look up" dictionary integration in Safari comes handy), etc due to non-linear nature of reading. Irregular English pronouncing rules don't help either.
"Just over two years ago, we released Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. This was our first 64-bit product" Very unfortunate that their in-house developed and promoted OS ("Raspbian") only supports armv7, thus leaving the vast majority that doesn't know about the existence of (or how to use) archlinux ARM an the likes with a 32 bit os. Am I the only one that doesn't get the sense out of this here? Debian supports Aarch64 out of…
To me, that makes a lot of sense. Having only one architecture to support and one image to rule them all across the product line is quite a great thing to have. The other day, there was a person who had a "reddit gold" bounty for the first person who can help them get the Pi 0 online. The person basically couldn't get the Pi Zero on the wireless network. They had no USB-OTG adapter or mini HDMI adapter they could use…
Yes, but then promoting the Raspberry Pi as "64 bit product" seems almost gimmicky to me. Ok, you switched to an AArch64 chip, but that was simply because it's what your supplier was producing at that time. It makes no sense to me to promote a feature you don't support or make use of, if not for simple and pure marketing reasons.
PoE support has always been available with a seperate PoE Hat [0], I found it to be a strange announcement. 0: https://coolcomponents.co.uk/products/pi-poe-switch-hat-powe...
I was confused by that too. "You used to require a separate board to use PoE. Now you... still need a separate board to use PoE." Oh well. Also, as possibly the only person left who really doesn't care at all about wireless... I'm glad there's a refresh, sure, but... I'm meh. I've been pxe booting my pi3s for a while now. Now, if it had official "clean" debian support (not "raspian") that would be something!
Possibly it will make the official PoE board cheaper? The existing one I have, which works rather well actually, cost almost the same as the Pi, which kinda limits its usefulness (when a PSU costs ~£6 max)
I'm a big fan of the Raspberry Pi community in general and have used it for multiple applications over the years; most recently as a media center TV box. However, the hardware now feels old and I wish for more of an update from the Pi foundation.
If anyone hear is looking for a true upgrade on the Pi, try the ODROID C2, it's years ahead of the Pi in terms of performance.
"Just over two years ago, we released Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. This was our first 64-bit product" Very unfortunate that their in-house developed and promoted OS ("Raspbian") only supports armv7, thus leaving the vast majority that doesn't know about the existence of (or how to use) archlinux ARM an the likes with a 32 bit os. Am I the only one that doesn't get the sense out of this here? Debian supports Aarch64 out of…
The problem is VideoCore, as the Broadcom firmware and closed libraries are 32bit only. You can very easily† pop in an ArchLinux ARM AArch64[0] in there and notice that you only get a very basic framebuffer, sound is just not working at all, and the bootloader is quite incomplete. So ARMv7 it is for me, even with ArchLinux ARM and in spite of my wish for better FOSS support from Broadcom or in Linux mainline. † I fin…
Man, I hate how ARM OEMs are screwing up the whole platform as a viable PC-replacement platform, and I really wish they would reconsider some of the money-grubbing choices they made. Having a standardised platform such as the x86(-64) PC platform is fantastic for tinkering and long term support and reusability of your machines; things such as binary only drivers with just 2 year support (coff coff Qualcomm) are an absolute shame.
Power over Ethernet is terrific, this means only one cord is now needed for a fully functioning pi (assuming you have the proper Ethernet setup on the other end).
As a non-native English speaker, I doubt that. In general listening to English is quite complex for someone that has learnt English only from school; listening to a non native language (especially a quirky spelled one like English) requires quite a bit of excercise to fully understand the various accents and how the words pronounced often illogically associate with those words you've learnt from books. I personally f…
I really wish it was easier to find movies in other languages to help learning. I've been half-heartedly trying to learn French the past few years but it's deceptively hard to either find a decent streaming service, or to find torrents with French audio + subtitles. Strangely it was quite easy when I had a stab at Swedish a few years ago; a number of their TV channels have a free streaming service that you can access…
Maybe you may have more luck using legal services such as Netflix. I'm quite sure they have subtitles for most of the languages they support; at least, I'm sure they have them for English, German and Italian. Torrents are often a poor choice with regards to captions, because either you manage to find a source that ripped them from an source in sync with video (such as the DVD), or you have to resort to fan dubs or that kinds of sort.