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Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by kingosticks »

kingosticks wrote: post #175
mustardo wrote: post #59

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certainly a good idea for stuff / locations that have regular writes, just be nice to use a more durable boot disk, hopefully booting via USB storage is well supported

It's well supported in the model 3 now so that seems extremely likely.

I stand corrected. Turns out it's implemented quite differently and neither netboot or booting from mass storage is supported for pi 4 yet. Hopefully we won't have to wait long.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by bin0 »

downtide wrote: post #430
bin0 wrote: post #426

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

We do have another room, that's slightly larger but it's a bit bleak. And weirdly it's a more fussy room to furnish. The smaller size is better in the winter. The old brick terraces aren't that warm. In large houses people can gravitate to smaller rooms for that reason. Personally I'd like a large room that I could bring the furniture in from the sides. Lucky to even have a house to live in to be honest, so can't rea…

I looked up some pictures; would you say this is representative? https://img-new.cgtrader.com/items/969757/41efc6817b/modern-...

If so, you're right; that's pretty small. Is it just a matter of acclimation?

Also, can you clarify what you mean that you're lucky to have a house? I wasn't aware of a major homeless problem in Europe.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by lgats »

universenz wrote: post #769
jacquesm wrote: post #739

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Yes, it probably is. But for many use cases that is totally unimportant.

Could you outline/bring clarity to why that is totally unimportant for many use cases?

I suppose most uses of the RBP don't involve running 3rd party code.

Although, I do think this is an important issue to address.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by rtio »

jacquesm wrote: post #740
rtio wrote: post #732

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When you add up adapters and cables the rpi is closing in on a chromebook on sale. So not that cheap any more.

Comparing one item at list with another on sale is a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Sure, wasn't meant to be. Just saying that if you want to use the new capabilities, don't already have the accessories and buy the official ones it adds up. The older ones were cheaper, had less requirements and more common accessories.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by NeedMoreTea »

bin0 wrote: post #772
downtide wrote: post #430

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We do have another room, that's slightly larger but it's a bit bleak. And weirdly it's a more fussy room to furnish. The smaller size is better in the winter. The old brick terraces aren't that warm. In large houses people can gravitate to smaller rooms for that reason. Personally I'd like a large room that I could bring the furniture in from the sides. Lucky to even have a house to live in to be honest, so can't rea…

I looked up some pictures; would you say this is representative? https://img-new.cgtrader.com/items/969757/41efc6817b/modern-... If so, you're right; that's pretty small. Is it just a matter of acclimation? Also, can you clarify what you mean that you're lucky to have a house? I wasn't aware of a major homeless problem in Europe.

I have to comment. That's huge! Way bigger than most UK Victorian 2 up, 2 down terraces. More like the size expected in an older 4 bedroom house if you ignore the extra space the photographer is clearly standing in.

Have a random right move link of what I think as typical Victorian worker's terrace: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-62228...

The door by the yellow chair is a tiny porch with front door beyond. No idea how it compares with OP's.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by mondoshawan »

hlandau wrote: post #95
phosphophyllite wrote: post #88

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Maybe RPi developers deal with with some investors that way? (in order to attract more money)

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a nonprofit.

That gets 99% of their SoCs and other chips from Broadcom at cost. Don't forget this if you decide to compete -- you can't win on price.

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by beaugunderson »

xrjn wrote: post #553
fpgaminer wrote: post #546

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That's silly. RasPis are stupidly useful. I've got: * A Zero W hooked up to a PM2.5 to do air quality monitoring in the house. Just bought a couple more sensors for it (VOC, eCO2, etc), but haven't hooked them up yet. * A 3B+ running the UniFi controller for my home network. * One is running a custom Hue automation I built to shift the color temperature of the lights throughout the day. * One is built into an interne…

> One is running a custom Hue automation I built to shift the color temperature of the lights throughout the day. Ooooh do you have the code up somewhere for this? I would love to set it up at home :)

I'll throw mine in as well, it automates changing the color temperature to help with better sleep:

https://github.com/beaugunderson/sleep-lights/blob/master/sl...

Re: Raspberry Pi 4

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Post by skavi »

bduerst wrote: post #681
dheera wrote: post #672

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Sure, if you're doing CPU-only tasks, Jetson Nano is A57 and Pi4 is A72 which is maybe twice as fast, but if you can offload anything to the GPU at all (media encoding, neural networks, matrix operations) you'll probably get some enormous gains in efficiency with the Nano.

How does the Jetson Nano GPU compare to the RPi 4's VideoCore VI?

The Nano's GPU is half of what is available in the Nintendo Switch. Based on some benchmarks I've seen, the one in the Pi 4 should be between 2 and 3 times slower.
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