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Are those settings in hardware, or the EEPROM?
This is the EEPROM settings.
But once I figure out how to properly flash it, I should be able to boot from a freshly created USB drive, without having to clone from SD?
I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
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Re: I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
#122> And the SSD was bricked. I was able to unbrick it again with the long-powerup-without-data-cable trick... What's the long-powerup-without-data-cable trick, if that's not a stupid question? Sounds like a useful thing to know!
Check this out, I hadn't heard about it either but am testing it on a ssd now.
Re: I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
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I've never experienced this SD card corruption, even when power goes down to the Pi. I believe it happens, but I wonder what my unique circumstances are. Is it that I always use Samsung or SanDisk SD cards with the Pi?
Those will still eventually die due to log being written to the card using all available read/write cycles.
They usually just stop accepting writes (silently). It's a bit of a head scratcher at first. But at least it doesn't lead to a complete data loss.
Re: I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
#124I have been debating a Pi400 vs a Pinebook Pro as an Xmas gift for a 10-year-old. The Pi400 looks great except that it doesn't support a webcam+microphone(+audio out?) out of the box and attempts to find an HDMI monitor with these things built in and supported by the Pi have thus far been unsuccessful. Is it odd to be considering a Lunux laptop for a 10-year old? The open source ethos of both machines, seems ideal fo…
I don't think the Pinebook Pro will be in stock until early next year.
Re: I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
#125I just spent a few hours fiddling with my new pi4 yesterday. Is it possible to get them to boot from USB without first setting it up to boot from SD and then cloning the disk? I'm guessing not since I think it has to flash some settings to the EEPROM, not just make changes to /boot. I was following this guide and couldn't even get these steps to work: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/boot-raspberry-pi-4-usb
I think all I had to do to get it working, now that the USB boot feature is out of beta, was to boot Raspberry Pi OS from an SD card and do a normal "apt upgrade". This automatically downloads and updates the firmware[1].
After that (and possibly rebooting?) I could run raspi-config and enable USB boot[2] there.
[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
[2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/rasp...
Re: I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
#126> I plugged in a Kingston brand 120GB SSD on a USB3 adapter. > Then I accidentally yanked a cable. And the SSD was bricked. People who are going to use this as as their setup ought to buy a real, fast USB SSD, instead of relying on SSD drives plugged into adapters. They're engineered to deal with stuff like this and they're fast. (the Samsung T5 and T7 both benchmark even faster than what you saw, well above 300MB/s)
I think the limitation is the raspberry Pi which has no sata or m.2 interfaces. That's why they used a drive with an adapter.
OP mentioned USB SSDs, not SATA/M.2 SSDs.
Would be nice for the next Pi to have an M.2 slot tho...
Re: I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
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How did you get Netflix to work with minimal effort? The 400 is still an ARM chipset, right? I know the "rip-arm-widevine-out-of-chrome-os" trick will work, though afaik the only automated way to accomplish this is via Kodi + the Kodi app at https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plugin.video.netflix But I'd hardly consider that "minimal effort" in the general case. Did you find a better way? Edit: also, Chrome itself. How di…
It’s chromium, not chrome, sorry for the confusion. I followed these instructions: https://blog.vpetkov.net/2020/03/30/raspberry-pi-netflix-one...
Cool, thank you!
Re: I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
#128"Back in the day" I managed a fleet of X terminals. Some were purpose built X terminals and some were old repurposed Sun 3/50 or 3/60 pizza boxes.
I also ran a bunch of servers where they booted off of a small internal disk and otherwise lived entirely off of NFS.
It all ran "just fine" on 10bt.
Get off my lawn...
One of these things seems ideal for "diskless" operation, especially if used in a lab setting.
Re: I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
#129> I plugged in a Kingston brand 120GB SSD on a USB3 adapter. > Then I accidentally yanked a cable. And the SSD was bricked. People who are going to use this as as their setup ought to buy a real, fast USB SSD, instead of relying on SSD drives plugged into adapters. They're engineered to deal with stuff like this and they're fast. (the Samsung T5 and T7 both benchmark even faster than what you saw, well above 300MB/s)
I think the limitation is the raspberry Pi which has no sata or m.2 interfaces. That's why they used a drive with an adapter.
Accidentally unplugging an SATA or m2 drive will have similarly awful results.
Re: I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
#130I have been playing with a Raspberry 400 for couple of days now. I thought of recommend it for my nephew, but couldn't do it because of the following drawbacks. 1. Lack of 3.5mm audio jack or built-in microphone/speakers 2. Unable to run Zoom reliably Given that schools are closed (at least in India) and classes are happening over zoom, these two drawbacks makes it a no-go for my use case.
Good point. Audio from a 3.5mm jack would add little to the cost, and also keep down headphone cost. Also, most monitors have really shitty audio. Boo. "Getting audio out of the Pi 400 was a bit of a challenge; it defaulted to attempting to deliver audio over HDMI, and Raspberry Pi OS' audio control dialog isn't the best. Even after changing the output device to USB Audio (my gaming headset), YouTube wasn't producing…
My experience has been fine. Whether with the default audio device picker (which doesn't work correctly once you've installed PulseAudio) or PA's own "pavucontrol" selecting output device is snap. Sometimes you have to restart the audio-producing program to use the new selection, which is a feature, not a bug - you could have different programs use different audio devices at the same time.
So to get the usual 3.5mm jacks, just buy a cheap USB/analog headset adapter; about $3 from Ali Express. Select as input and output, and done. Microphone is usually not an issue if you're using a webcam since most have an adequate one built in.