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Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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There is merit to ecological reasoning, but sometimes people like nice things; and concern over the use of pi’s over existing arbitrary computers is so low on the list of ecological priorities that perhaps it’s better to simply recognize the value it provides to people who want to buy one.

You're right, it is much more important that people feel good about themselves than that the planet continue to be hospitable to life.

The planet is perfectly capable of co-existing with raspberry pi’s. For something as grand as climate change, you won’t make a dent here.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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As a fifty seven year old, I don't have 4k eyeballs. agree you have a limitation, not one which is holding me back since osmc does 720p just fine, for Olde telecine mp4s of B&W movies

I suppose a future AV improvement will be to upgrade eyeballs; iSpheres anyone?

Yeah, with DRM that blanks out copyrighted content you haven't paid to watch, and reinserts adverts that your adblocker removed.

And they'll remove the optic nerve connector in favour of Bluetooth that will allow them to be 0.1mm thinner, and be wireless!

Ps did you miss iBalls on purpose?

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Genuinely curious what you'd want this for? Cloud servers can be prepared in minutes, has decent performance, decent network, no upfront cost, can throw away or add at will and you don't have to take care of it physically. Also don't have to open up your local network.

If you have children, you would understand ;-) Or if you are just an adult child...

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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esp32 is a great way to fill drawers as well.

shh don't tell all our secrets

I'm just laughing so hard at this thread. I also have a drawer, but with a bunch of Sonoff Home Automation devices. I promise I'll activate them one day!

My wife doesn't have a clever name, but instead of usually rolling her eyes at yet another unfinished project, she loves this particular drawer because it's perfectly (and neatly) organized, like the best of unused item drawers.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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What's the thermal story? Looks pretty terrible so far. The case has no holes. The board has no holes for the heatsink, so you'll have to glue it. Space for heatsink is small. Is it made so that the board serves as a heatsink at the very least?

Scroll down to the "Power and Heat" section https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-4-b,6193.h...

Thanks.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

#507

How would this perform as a linux desktop? I'm thinking about grabbing one for my Mom, who doesn't have a computer at home.

We've used a RPi 3B+ for a couple years as a home desktop and it's been great for general browsing, email, youtube.

Velcro it to the back of a HD TV and it can sit anywhere.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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post #426

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In the UK in a victorian terrace, and our front room is perhaps on the small side at about 3x4m. I'd guess somewhere between that and 4x5m is about average. For us 32inch still can feel imposing. And that size screen seems to be being phased out.

Oh dear God that's tiny. How do you stand that? Genuinely curious; I feel like I'd end up claustrophobic.

I'm sure most of humanity for most of history have made do with smaller rooms than that.

How do you cope in a car?

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Any suggestions or experiences with write-intensive applications? My SD-card fails every few months. Is there a more reliable storage option that's easy to implement?

i don’t know what your app is doing but what I’ve done in the past is to boot from the sd card and switch it to read only after and use an in-memory tmpfs after. I’ve hacked this together quite a few times that at some point I’ve put together a little project. maybe check it out: cattlepi.com

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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post #470

Any suggestions or experiences with write-intensive applications? My SD-card fails every few months. Is there a more reliable storage option that's easy to implement?

Look for as cards that are certified for dash cams. Either that, or make the write intensive volume a network share.
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