This is nice but I can't even buy one! I've been "casually" shopping for a Raspberry Pi for a while now and it seems almost impossible without assistance from a bot, or immense effort.
I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer
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#32I cannot buy a Pi 4 (8GB) locally at all. Amazon appears to offer one for 200-250 euros. For 200 euros or less, I can get a NUC-style mini PC at my local electronics store that is more powerful. I wouldn't mind trying out a Pi-as-a-PC, but new models either just aren't available or aren't reasonably priced.
A quick google search shows raspberry pi 4 8gb ram selling at 140 eur in italy, 100 eur in hungary. If you live in the eu why do you limit your searches to one country? It feels like those people complaining they cant find ps5s or gpus yet i comfortably sourced mine from various countries, new, at a decent price, even during the pandemic. If you own a small ltd you can even buy them vat free.
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#33Linux is just “almost” there. I could probably use it for my daily programming environment - Elixir, PostgreSQL, Vim, Firefox. But then my job takes a turn… creative. Document manipulation, convert multiple Images into a PDF, easy screenshots and then make a thumbnail with that. Sign docs with my signature. Access to apps like Pixemator. Share files easily. Dropbox. It’s just easier and more productive. It’s hard to…
Dropbox has (and as far as I'm aware, always has had) full Linux support?
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#34I cannot buy a Pi 4 (8GB) locally at all. Amazon appears to offer one for 200-250 euros. For 200 euros or less, I can get a NUC-style mini PC at my local electronics store that is more powerful. I wouldn't mind trying out a Pi-as-a-PC, but new models either just aren't available or aren't reasonably priced.
I bought a couple of Odroid HC4. I boot from a microSD. I can plug my old SATA disks in there. The board with an old 750 HDD consumes 12 to 15 W. If I unmount the HDD file system and switch off the disk with udisksctl power-off it's only 4 W. Any operation on the device turns the disk on again. I'll check with a spare SSD.
Even if I had a different use case Pis are impossible to find at a price worth paying for. I'm starting to forget about them.
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#35Damn what IDE do you use? What games do you play?
Why not read the article before you get snarky?
> programming (Pluma as my text editor and LAMP stack for running a localhost), and some simple games like Mahjong and Solitaire
Tools from an era that matches the computer’s capabilities.
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#36about their previous computers: > After a while it felt as if a fighter jet was taking off next to me, constantly. as someone who spent time around jets in the US Air Force, I absolutely loathe this analogy. The difference between a few computer fans and a jet taking off is like the difference in force between a dead leaf falling on you from 10m above you versus a 25kg anvil falling on you from 10m above you. compute…
It was only about my own computer, no other people in this story. ;)
Since we are still talking about fighter jets, they should make the F-35 less noisy. The Netherlands have a bunch of them and the F-16 is as quiet as my RPi compared to them. Or does this analogy also rub you the wrong way?
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#37If someone would build a Linux-friendly competetor to the ARM64 Mac Mini, I would consider that for my home computer.
As it is, I either have to stick with x86_64, go to Apple, or have an under-powered RPi.
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#38I cannot buy a Pi 4 (8GB) locally at all. Amazon appears to offer one for 200-250 euros. For 200 euros or less, I can get a NUC-style mini PC at my local electronics store that is more powerful. I wouldn't mind trying out a Pi-as-a-PC, but new models either just aren't available or aren't reasonably priced.
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#39If someone would build a Linux-friendly competetor to the ARM64 Mac Mini, I would consider that for my home computer. As it is, I either have to stick with x86_64, go to Apple, or have an under-powered RPi.
Ironically, the Microsoft ARM Developer Kit that was just released might be a good option. [1] I also personally have used a Qualcomm RB5 [2][3] since last year and can say that it is quite snappy, though the official image is ancient and the modern Debian Linux image Linaro works on for it was still rather buggy. The most robust option is likely Nvidia's AGX Orin Developer Kit [4][5], which Nvidia maintains 20.04 Ubuntu images for [6].
1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-dev-kit-2023/94K0P67W7581
2: https://developer.qualcomm.com/qualcomm-robotics-rb5-kit
3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RArzm3h_0vg
4: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-orin/
5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFgsOeHMAW4
6: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-linuxRe: I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer
#40I cannot buy a Pi 4 (8GB) locally at all. Amazon appears to offer one for 200-250 euros. For 200 euros or less, I can get a NUC-style mini PC at my local electronics store that is more powerful. I wouldn't mind trying out a Pi-as-a-PC, but new models either just aren't available or aren't reasonably priced.
A quick google search shows raspberry pi 4 8gb ram selling at 140 eur in italy, 100 eur in hungary. If you live in the eu why do you limit your searches to one country? It feels like those people complaining they cant find ps5s or gpus yet i comfortably sourced mine from various countries, new, at a decent price, even during the pandemic. If you own a small ltd you can even buy them vat free.
Is it actually in stock at this price? Where I am, local price tracker, tweakers.net, also shows some listings for ~100 euro, but if you click through to the seller's website, it says there "not in stock, delivery date unknown". If you limit to what you can actually buy, it's ~200 euros, and even that - often with a week or two of lead-time.