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Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

bscphil wrote: post #117
Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #12

The addition of gigabit ethernet and USB 3.0 means that a Pi no longer feels like a bottleneck in one’s home network. I know that the Pi was invented as an educational product, but thanks to the Linux distribution OSMC it is commonly used as a media center for playing films, music, TV, etc. I have had gigabit internet for a few years now, and every day on average, I torrent a Blu-Ray image onto my main computer. Howe…

I imagine the wait must be agonizing! Why not just have a NFS server on your more powerful computer for the Pi to stream the file from? 100 Mbps is easily enough to stream any Bluray.

> Why not just have a NFS server on your more powerful computer for the Pi to stream the file from?

The “more powerful computer” is a laptop, and it is only being used for torrenting the films because it has gigabit ethernet. I don’t want to have to leave it on all the time, and sometimes it is still packed in its case when I want to sit down and watch a film. Storing the films on a hard drive attached to the Pi is a lot more convenient.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by leemailll »

icefo wrote: post #202

I'm very happy about that ! I needed to build a low power Nas with ZFS and the only board that could do the job (gigabit Ethernet, sata IO, powerful 64 bits processor, 4GB of ram) was the rockpro64. Sadly I discovered after receiving it that it can't run regular Linux distros out of the box. I had to download an image from some guy on GitHub. He seemed reasonably trustworthy since it was linked from the manufacturer'…

You can take a look at odriod’s x86 board

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by grizzles »

This is the death knell for x86 PCs for the consumer market.

No regular user needs more than this. Developers and hardcore gamers will be the only ones left on x86. Intel will be a shadow of themselves soon. They have did such a bad job at diversifying.

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Post by codefreakxff »

theknarf wrote: post #287

I'm a bit disappointed that they added type-D (micro) HDMI instead of just two more USB-C ports. If I need to use a dongle anyway (since I can't just plug inn normal HDMI) why not USB-C? Preferably I'd like a version with 4 usb-c ports, 1 normal hdmi, and two normal usb ports. That way I could have it setup with just usb-c, but can still plugin legacy connectors when needed.

I don’t disagree that 4 usb-c could have been more forward thinking. But, you don’t NEED to use a dongle, you can buy an hdmi-to-micro cable.

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Post by mr_isomies »

TimeOutBoss wrote: post #272
franky47 wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can relate. However these days I have found a new life for those abandoned Pis: I install Pi-Hole [1] on them and set them up for family and close friends. [1] https://pi-hole.net/

What else would you recommend along side pi-hole, something easy to setup and maintain like pihole?

I have one with rutorrent that acts our house seedbox / file server. I also added droppy as a simple, user friendly file browser for my flatmates. Obviously, this all runs on docker-compose, because I'm a very weak man (but also, it makes managing the whole thing trivial once setup)

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Post by ageitgey »

kharak wrote: post #79
ageitgey wrote: post #24

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You can buy a pretty powerful full computer (networking, video, RAM, etc) that fits on a tiny card for $35. That makes it possible to build all sorts of fun things on next to zero budget - everything from robots to video game emulation systems and tv streaming boxes. The previous 3 versions were already wildly popular, but there were starting to show their age and to be significantly outperformed by Nvidia's Jetson N…

I always feel like I'm missing something. I don't have a single idea where something like this could be useful. Maybe because I don't care about "fun" projects and live a quit minimalistic live style? I must don't have (small) problems with no solutions. Then again, I've also never had an idea for an interesting software side project.

I have no actual data, but I would be willing to bet that a large percentage sold are used to build multi-video-game emulators or video streaming boxes instead of actual hacker projects. Both uses have premade software images and are nearly plug and play and give you a lot more options than commercial offerings like an Apple TV or Nintendo Classic.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by dlkmp »

grizzles wrote: post #293

This is the death knell for x86 PCs for the consumer market. No regular user needs more than this. Developers and hardcore gamers will be the only ones left on x86. Intel will be a shadow of themselves soon. They have did such a bad job at diversifying.

I'm not so sure about this on a large scale but my first thought after reading this was to replae my parents' PC with a Pi 4.
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