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I've been reading a lot about tiny websites on HN (e.g. https://bearblog.dev). Can we use these Raspberry Pis to host them? Are they performant enough? Is setting things up newbie-friendly?
Having your own little corner on the internet that no one can shut down sounds pretty cool.
Question from a non-technical person. I've been reading a lot about tiny websites on HN (e.g. https://bearblog.dev ). Can we use these Raspberry Pis to host them? Are they performant enough? Is setting things up newbie-friendly? Having your own little corner on the internet that no one can shut down sounds pretty cool.
His name was Boris and he was the company’s MVP for several years running :)
I am strongly hoping that the 8GB Rpi + NexDock would be a good low cost laptop for web browsing, text editing and terminal. I've been turned off from investing in a new laptop for a variety of reasons: - Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the har…
> web browsing, text editing and terminal. If that’s all you want try an iPad2. I think it would make a better “laptop” than a RPI. RPI doesn’t have a battery.
I am strongly hoping that the 8GB Rpi + NexDock would be a good low cost laptop for web browsing, text editing and terminal. I've been turned off from investing in a new laptop for a variety of reasons: - Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the har…
> Apple has made questionable hardware design decisions lately. If Louis Rossmann is to be believed, the T2 chip + secureboot situation is just as bad as the old keyboard situation. It sucks having no say over the hardware. His claims were significantly overblown. If your T2 dies, yeah, your data is toast, because the disk keys live in the T2. But the same applies for your SSD dying itself, and the T2 is not especial…
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> - AMD's Ryzen 4000 products look amazing, but (almost?) none of the laptops are 13" with high quality screens. Check out the Xiaomi RedmiBook 13 (100% sRGB coverage).
That tops out at 16GB RAM and curios how warranty service looks like in case you have issues.
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Small country, small market. Small market, low supply. Low supply, high prices.
Wasn't the EU single market supposed to fix that?
I am free to buy and sell to and from any country in the world, the issues is not everyone is willing to deal and pay for international shipping which ends up quite high for a cheap SFF tower system.
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> web browsing, text editing and terminal. If that’s all you want try an iPad2. I think it would make a better “laptop” than a RPI. RPI doesn’t have a battery.
Good luck testing your design in several browsers on an iPad :-/
So I just got a fun project working with a Raspberry Pi 4. I have it generating a slideshow of fake images using the impressive BigGAN model, and displaying those on a 7" touch screen. It's just for kicks; I wanted a little AI daydreaming on my desk :) Also to see if it was even possible, given how large the BigGAN model is. But lo and behold the 4GB Pi is _just_ enough to run it. I'm half tempted to buy this new 8GB…
This is cool. Whats really holding it back at this point is it's use of a sd card. I find that its pretty difficult to use 4gb of ram on a pi practically, and its often bottlenecked by I/O. It might just be my SD card, but executing trivial commands sometimes takes forever and reminds me that I'm in a pi. I've heard ssds can improve speeds a lot, but you still cant boot off usb.
USB boot is coming, beta started a week ago: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=274595
That's a game changer.
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Maybe in the US. In my EU country(Austria) second hand hardware prices are through the roof. There's no way you're getting anything half decent from the last decade for $75. And then there's the cooling and power consumption difference between a 10 year old system and a RPi. It's not even close.
> In my EU country second hand hardware prices are through the roof. Curious - any thoughts on why?