They should have called it the Raspberry Pi 3.14, considering which day it is ;)
New Raspberry Pi Model B+
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Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+
#132Why was the title changed? It's misleading right now since there's already a Raspberry Pi Model B+ available for ages. Should be "New Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+" just like on the blog post.
It should also say 2018, for archival purposes of nothing else.
I hate companies using the same name for different products. B+2 (or is it 3?)?
Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+
#133PXE booting is sweet. I develop an OS (Crankshaft) for the Pi, and a lot of times it just has been waiting to write a new OS to the SD card, waiting, plugging it in, realizing I forgot to do something, so I had to repeat. Each time it was 15 minutes of waiting. Pulling the card out and putting it back in, especially with the ribbon cable on the way (and a case too) has been really painful. PXE boot is going to solve…
If they added a TRRS connector it would be quite easy to plug an external mic that way.
Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
It would be even easier and less vague to just pop out the SD card, open up /etc/network/interfaces, and edit that to add your network. Pop it back in and go. This is what I've done when setting up a new raspberry pi image without having any peripherals attached to it. I ssh in, configure the system to my liking, then make an image of the SD card for future use. I could even turn this work into a script that download…
That's what the person did -- they put wpa_supplicant.conf to the boot partition -- but somehow the Pi wouldn't connect, and they had no way to debug it to figure out what went wrong.
Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 ab…
There is also the fact that UEFI is rather suboptimal. They are adopting UEFI on the server chips because they've failed to develop a new standard. They've missed a chance to improve upon UEFI. Now they are stuck inheriting UEFI's problems because otherwise there would be no standard at all.
ugh thats bad news. i can't stand uefi its more a hindrance than help.
Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+
#136"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…
I'm really pretty OK with it. The thing only has 1GB of RAM, so there's not a whole lot of value in having a >4GB address space. Might as well default to having the perf boost and reduction in memory consumption that comes with pointers that are half as big. People who actually have a use for 64bit on their pis will generally know what to do, and I'm guessing most of of them won't have a whole lot of use for the stre…
> so there's not a whole lot of value in having a >4GB address space.
Don't most ARMv7 CPUs (like A7, A15, etc.) have 1 TB address space? On LPAE ARM, 64-bit arch will only get you larger virtual address space, but you get same 40-bit address space in both cases.
> reduction in memory consumption that comes with pointers that are half as big
Nothing prevents you from running 32-bit binaries on 64-bit OS, as long as you have 4kB page size.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Almost everything I've looked at on Netflix (UK) seems to be available with either French audio or subs. Might be worth a look. Rick & Morty IIRC offered 6 language options.
Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+
#138"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…
> Broadcom firmware and ... are 32bit only
Doesn't the firmware run on VideoCore anyways, so why would its bitness matter?
Closed ARM-side libraries are of course a different beast.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 th…
For some idiotic reason Netflix geofences their subtitles. Here in Sweden you're lucky if there are even the original English subtitles available for the thing you're trying to watch. I've even managed to find a few shows where they didn't even bother to allow disabling the subtitles!
They don’t. I’m living in Singapore, but have family in Germany and Thailand. If you want to have Thai subtitles in Singapore or Germany, you can create a User with Thai set as the UI language, then you also get offered audio and subtitles in Thai.
It’s not documented and totally not intuitive, I only discovered that by accident, but it works very well.
Re: New Raspberry Pi Model B+
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Amazon Prime Video has all movies and series in English, German, French and a couple of more exotic languages. I think they have a 30 day trial, it might however be different in every country.