WOW, if USB3 and NIC are dedicated devices (not share one usb bus) this is amazing little machine!
Raspberry Pi 4
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
C'mon, a mini-hdmi hdmi cable is 50kr ($5), surely you can just buy one and be done with it, no adapter needed. https://www.netonnet.se/art/ljud-och-bild/kablar/hdmi-kablar...
The cheapest maybe, but don't I need to watch for specs and DRM features and everything?
As long as the cable supports your preferred "version" of HDMI, it should be fine, that cable supports 1.4.
So it's not rated for 4k, but it will support all the DRM stuff.
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#83Oh my! This is such a crazy upgrade. I've been using the RPI2 as my HTPC/NAS at my folks, and I'm so happy with it. I was itching to get the last one for myself. USB 3.0! Gigabit Ethernet! WiFi 802.11ac, BT 5.0, 4GB RAM! 4K! $55 at most?! What the!? How the??! I know I'm not maintaining decorum at Hacker News, but I am SO mighty, MIGHTY excited! I'm setting up a VPN to hook this (when I get it) to my VPS and then do…
Do you have a good guide to setup a nice VPN server?
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#84RPI would be awesome for NAS if you could connect SATA somehow
The USB 3.0 ports should give 100MB/s (Benchmarks show up to +300MB/s), and you can mirror two disks for RAID-1.
With 4GB of RAM, you'd even be able to use ZFS.
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#86Desktop performance my behind. What's the point of all that CPU power when IO performance remains in mid 2000s territory? It takes forever to boot, any time disk access occurs everything crawls to a halt. M.2 has been around for 5+ years now and would have easily fit on this design in its short length form factor. No datasheet for the SoC either. Again. There are vastly better SBCs out there.
As someone who is not familiar with the other options, what would you recommend? I want NAS/Video Streaming capability.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't follow. Firstly, I don't think I've seen any other SBC vendor fail to publish full schematics. This is a peculiarity of rpi's offering. Secondly, nobody is forcing them to add DRM chips to anything. That's not something that can be written off on "a contractual obligation made me do it." They did it of their own will.
Counter hypothesis because I can’t be bothered to research it fully: Pi: “Hello we wish to buy a $thing” Vendor: “Certainly. We sell $thing for ten dollars per unit if it doesn’t have DRM, or five dollars per unit if it does.”
The camera PCB was made by rpi for specific use with the rpi. The DRM chip is not part of the camera vendor's assembly. It is a separate chip placed on the PCB, therefore placed there by the PCB designer, i.e., by rpi.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
1) They make a low cost computer where they've put significant work into making it more open software wise. Their revenue stream is through the sale of their hardware, why do they need to allow people to make clones? 2) Maybe it's to do with the terms in which they get the camera module? I don't know but I don't see them selling the camera as interoperable. Your comment just seems to exemplify the phrase: "No good de…
Other SBC makers don't have an issue offering full schematics, yet, due to their smaller size, have relatively more to lose from being cloned. Moreover, I hope nobody believes that a lack of full schematics is going to stop people from making clones. Schematics can be reversed with not too much effort. Due to their large audience and brand recognition, rpi actually has less to fear from clones than smaller SBC vendor…
Maybe RPi developers deal with with some investors that way? (in order to attract more money)
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
1) They make a low cost computer where they've put significant work into making it more open software wise. Their revenue stream is through the sale of their hardware, why do they need to allow people to make clones? 2) Maybe it's to do with the terms in which they get the camera module? I don't know but I don't see them selling the camera as interoperable. Your comment just seems to exemplify the phrase: "No good de…
"freeloaders just turn up and demand more." If this were software, this would be a discussion about open source, would you accuse people of forking an open source project of being freeloaders?
Yes, given the recent discussions how some projects were surprised that many companies are putting non-copyleft licenses to good use of their investors, when they are full compliant with what the license requires from them.
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#90>Are you still using VideoCore? >Yes. VideoCore 3D is the only publicly documented 3D graphics core for ARM‑based SoCs, and we want to make Raspberry Pi more open over time, not less. This stated intention and rpi.org's actions are simply not isomorphic. If they want to make Raspberry Pi more open, firstly, why do they publish only abridged (read: fake) schematics? [1] Secondly, why was rpi.org caught adding DRM chip…
> This stated intention and rpi.org's actions
Please, never shorten or distort domain names... I went to rpi.org which turned out to be a spam trap.