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CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by SimianLogic2 »

gbear605 wrote: post #113
SimianLogic2 wrote: post #91

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Seconded. I looked into this at the start of the Pandemic -- there are a few crap ones on Amazon. I couldn't get them to work with my phone. I'd love to just have a set of web bookmarks and be able to load those or send it a URL from my device or even a page out of Notion. My main use case: when I'm following a recipe, my devices go to sleep in a minute or two and it's a huge pain in the ass to wake it up and type in…

It seems like the simple solution is just to change your phone’s sleep settings when you know you’re going to be cooking

Because there's nothing I love more than fiddling with obtuse settings menus just to have to do it again in couple of hours. This would maybe be acceptable if there was a charm/quick toggle like they do with Do Not Disturb, but I'd rather print it or write it than change the settings and then remember to change them back later.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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SimianLogic2 wrote: post #141
gbear605 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like the simple solution is just to change your phone’s sleep settings when you know you’re going to be cooking

Because there's nothing I love more than fiddling with obtuse settings menus just to have to do it again in couple of hours. This would maybe be acceptable if there was a charm/quick toggle like they do with Do Not Disturb, but I'd rather print it or write it than change the settings and then remember to change them back later.

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Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by SamBam »

SimianLogic2 wrote: post #141
gbear605 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems like the simple solution is just to change your phone’s sleep settings when you know you’re going to be cooking

Because there's nothing I love more than fiddling with obtuse settings menus just to have to do it again in couple of hours. This would maybe be acceptable if there was a charm/quick toggle like they do with Do Not Disturb, but I'd rather print it or write it than change the settings and then remember to change them back later.

I am surprised phones (I'll only speak for Android) don't make it easier to say "don't automatically sleep for the next 30 minutes."

I know individual apps can turn off sleep. The browsers ought to also be better at recognizing that you're looking at a recipe, and keep the phone from falling asleep.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by hedora »

marcodiego wrote: post #83
hedora wrote: post #79

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The pinebook pro is close to that. It has a different software ecosystem, but is also much faster when web browsing than a Pi4: https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/

I want something I can put my favorite arm sbc inside.

You can do that with this laptop, as long as the RockPro64 is your favorite ARM SBC.

(Disclaimer: I think the specs match, but the form factor of the laptop board might vary.)

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by c6401 »

aboringusername wrote: post #11

Looking at the specs [1], I can't help but feel for $200 getting Wifi 4 (N, from 2008) and BT 4.0 (from 2010) leaves me underwhelmed. Maybe it was a cost decision, maybe licensing? Maybe due to power constraints? But damn, Wifi 4 is just objectively terrible and needs obliterating, it's borderline unusable and leaves me worried about the longevity of using such old standards in 2/3 years time (if that's the expecting…

Probably you will be able to switch raspberry 4 compute module to raspberry 5 when it came out. No guarantee of course but probably slot will be the same.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by broabprobe »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #66
crazygringo wrote: post #47

I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead. I think there's a great niche for "embedded" devices around the home -- weather readout panels, lighting controls, music player, intercom, etc. -- but glowing rectangles mounted to the wall are just too... glowing. E-ink panels is where it's at, and a Raspberry Pi powering it is perfect. Unfortunately, the only real general-purpose e-ink tablet…

Remarkable tablets are pretty hackable. They run Linux and let you ssh in and install othwr software by default. The screen is also a decent size and touch sensitive.

after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26531119 I searched the page for Remarkable. It could be the Linux tablet of our collective dreams if enough developers notice it...

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by meatmanek »

hutzlibu wrote: post #140
dmos62 wrote: post #38

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It might be hibernation, as in putting RAM on disk and shutting down.

Erm ... then the "standby time" would be forever.

Only if the supporting electronics (whatever's watching the sleep/wake button) have zero power consumption.

It looks like they're using an STM32 for this, which I believe can be made to draw approximately zero power if it's just waiting for a button to be pressed.

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Post by bentcorner »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #122
tartoran wrote: post #121

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A surface tablet with a linux image is underrated IMO. They are good and capable hardware and can be had for cheap. I don’t understand why PI is used for a tablet when its purpose is a standalone device with IO capabilities or for experimenting. I went on this path and bought a few linux first devices and while fun they did not perform even close to an consumer device which with the right image (linux) it could becom…

I'm intrigued, which model Surface with which Linux distro would you recommend in the "impulse buy" territory?

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Supporte... has a matrix of Surface devices and how well they work with Linux.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by meatmanek »

Waterluvian wrote: post #9

The faq about battery concerns me a bit. "Achieved about 5 hours of standby time." Reporting standby time seems like a question dodge.

It's worth noting that their "standby time" measurement includes the screen being on at 1/2 brightness and maintaining a Wifi connection.

The processors in the Raspberry Pi don't support power management, so as far as I know, it's impossible to sleep a Raspberry Pi. The best you can do is to suspend to disk, at which point a battery life test would be relatively meaningless.

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