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Could always use something like https://www.browserstack.com/ if you really want to.
Does it support opening Dev tools? If so, terrific.
Its fantastic automated tool however; and the live interface is great for irregular checks
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…
With a phone processor it will still be ARM, you won't get a great laptop. But it already costs $250, for that price you can get an entry-level laptop that will probably perform in a similar way while still leaving your phone independent.
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Wasn't the EU single market supposed to fix that?
The EU single market has no positive or negative effect here as it's a private purchase not subject to any regulations. 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.
In principle, shouldn't one of the consequences of the EU project be that intra-EU shipping rates should, for the same distance, be identical between within the same country and between EU countries? (Of course, I realise that outcome may not yet have actually been achieved in practice.)
Before anyone goes "OMG I could use it as a desktop" $75 is close to what you would pay for couple year old ~4 faster laptop with broken screen, sodimm and PCIE SSD slots. Quick ebay check shows things like $90 'Dell XPS12 i7-3537U 8gb 128GB SSD broken screen'
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.
The PI kicks ass if you want to play with hardware and actually use it's pins to build robots or whatever, or you want to use it's amazing camera and libraries. For pure compute its not a great deal.
I really wish Microsoft would release a version of Windows 10 (the full version, not IoT) for the Pi 4 so developers could easily test their apps on an actual ARM device. Being able ship a Raspberry Pi 4 preloaded with Windows 10 to developers could bring a huge boost in the number of apps that support Windows on ARM.
Isn't https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot-core/tutorials/... IOT-Core for that purpose, or am I missing it?
I'd like a Pi with built in POE and eMMC support Something like the profile of the original Ubiquiti CloudKey would be ideal (don't need most of the ports on the Pi) https://www.ui.com/unifi/unifi-cloud-key/
Like a Rock Pi 4? https://rockpi.org/rockpi4
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.
I also read recently that the lack of cooling can really throttle the performance of a Pi4. Do you have a good heat sink and fan installed?
https://www.seeedstudio.com/ICE-Tower-CPU-Cooling-Fan-for-Ra...
> The BCM2711 chip that we use on Raspberry Pi 4 can address up to 16GB of LPDDR4 SDRAM, so the real barrier to our offering a larger-memory variant was the lack of an 8GB LPDDR4 package. These didn’t exist (at least in a form that we could address) in 2019, but happily our partners at Micron stepped up earlier this year with a suitable part. All other SBCs in this market segments have also been capped at 4GB - I'm h…
Interesting as Samsung developed a 8GB LPDDR4 memory chip back in 2013 - https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-develops-industrys-f...
Looking at Micron (who probably tickd the box on price to make this happen), they can do 16Gb modules. So that may well happen. However the power aspect as already indicated from the 4Gb to 8Gb, considerations will prove more interesting.
Biggest gain though is more focus upon 64bit, which goes hand in hand with that extra memory.
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.
When our dev team was just starting out, we ran the business gitlab instance on a raspberry pi 2 model B. It took a few kernel Params to work with only 1GB of RAM, but it got there. His name was Boris and he was the company’s MVP for several years running :)
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UK is generally an outlier when it comes to the second hand market for some reason. Our used cars go for peanuts compared to used cars in the mainland for example. I am often trawling the UK ebay for tech stuff because it's so much cheaper than Blocket (a craigslist-like) here in Sweden. PS: very very pedantically and technically, UK isn't an EU member any longer. Although there is some limbo period.
> Our used cars go for peanuts compared to used cars in the mainland for example. I was somewhat intrigued by the use of the term mainland, but it certainly has some debate behind it: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/3652/how-to-refe... Yes second hand cars in the UK are cheaper, factors being that there has been a consumer rise for a while, seeing more second hand cars. This with the island effect makes f…