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Re: I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer

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Post by bee_rider »

rambambram wrote: post #184
bee_rider wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have an absolutely terrible bloat problem on the web. Unfortunately, using a slow PC on our end won't solve it. If we could force web devs to work on raspberry pis or old atom netbooks, the world would be a better place.

That's what I did, basically. I forced myself to work on low end machines because there might be a chance my website system also runs in a browser on a low end machine. My website with this blogpost is holding up perfectly fine by the way, even with all HN visitors, peaking at almost 2 visits each second for some hours. Also credits to my webhost!

It is funny to think of the hoops I jumped through to get things working nicely on an old Atom processor. My Makefiles were so good, everything was tracked compilation only happened when necessary...

Re: I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer

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Post by throwaway81523 »

PaulWaldman wrote: post #86

What is the point for a consumer to use a Raspberry PI 4 today? I recently purchased a mini PC with an Intel N5105, 16GB of Ram, 512GB NVME SSD, two gigabit ethernet ports, two HDMI ports, many USB ports, and Wifi 6. This system was $180, all in. You can't find a Pi 4, much less one with equivalent specs for anywhere near this price. If you can find it, an 8GB PI4 is $75 and then you need to buy the case, power suppl…

Pi 400 is about $70, or with power supply and mouse and a few other goodies it is $100. It is essentially a 4gb pi 4 built into a keyboard. The power supply is a basic 15 watt usb-c cube, so you probably have one around already. 400's are fairly easy to buy, unlike 4's. It would be nice if they made an 8gb one. I wonder if DIY upgrade is possible.

Re: I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer

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Post by xbfjvusb6 »

pizza234 wrote: post #99
PaulWaldman wrote: post #86

What is the point for a consumer to use a Raspberry PI 4 today? I recently purchased a mini PC with an Intel N5105, 16GB of Ram, 512GB NVME SSD, two gigabit ethernet ports, two HDMI ports, many USB ports, and Wifi 6. This system was $180, all in. You can't find a Pi 4, much less one with equivalent specs for anywhere near this price. If you can find it, an 8GB PI4 is $75 and then you need to buy the case, power suppl…

> I recently purchased a mini PC with an Intel N5105, 16GB of Ram, 512GB NVME SSD, two gigabit ethernet ports, two HDMI ports, many USB ports, and Wifi 6. This system was $180, all in That's an unusually low price, assuming it's new. Can you give a reference of the shop where you purchased it? For example, the first price I've found of a Gigabyte Brix (a relatively common mini PC) with an N2807 + 8 GB RAM + 512 GB SS…

Search the CPU name on AliExpress.

Re: I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer

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Post by layer8 »

PaulWaldman wrote: post #175
rr888 wrote: post #173

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Presumably this one, is a good deal. https://www.amazon.com/Processor-Beelink-Computer-Support-Di...

Yup! Currently $190 with the coupon. Amazon seems to have multiple listing for Beelink PCs with the exact same specifications, but different price points.

Now $219 with coupon.

Re: I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer

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Post by sbarre »

veqq wrote: post #190
sbarre wrote: post #150

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I'd love to know where you got that PC for that price. I just spent 20 minutes doing some searches in all the usual suspects (Amazon, eBay, AliXpress, and some online stores I can usually get good prices from) and the cheapest I found for the configuration you specified was around $400.. Mostly it seems to be the RAM that boosts the cost. For 8GB I can get it down to $260, but I've seen nothing even close to $180. Ed…

Apply the coupon and it's 190: https://www.amazon.com/Processor-Beelink-Computer-Support-Di...

It shows as $279 for me with a $60 coupon.. Just being pedantic though, that's still a great price.

Re: I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer

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Post by TMWNN »

talkingtab wrote: post #47

I use a Raspberry Pi 4/8G as my maine (ha ha) development machine. I have a special case, which is that I mostly ssh into my websites hosted by digital ocean. I usually have several terminal sessions (+3), some local terminal sessions and firefox. I use the pi mainly because I can have two monitors at once. I just installed ubuntu 22.10 desktop and it appears to work well. I use ubuntu mainely because it is what I ru…

>I have a special case, which is that I mostly ssh into my websites hosted by digital ocean.

This sounds like what I do, except I mosh from a MacBook into a VM on my own server, which in turn runs tmux with mosh sessions to other machines, physical (including the same MacBook) and virtual. They are all local, but there is nothing preventing the sessions from being hosted somewhere else.

>I usually have several terminal sessions (+3), some local terminal sessions and firefox

Do you run Firefox remotely? I run Chrome and Firefox on the MacBook I use to mosh into the first aforementioned machine above. I read mail on one of the terminal sessions with VM on emacs; it passes via SSH URLs from messages to the local browser. Overall, I am very, very satisfied with my setup.

Re: I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer

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Post by fragmede »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #192
PaulWaldman wrote: post #86

What is the point for a consumer to use a Raspberry PI 4 today? I recently purchased a mini PC with an Intel N5105, 16GB of Ram, 512GB NVME SSD, two gigabit ethernet ports, two HDMI ports, many USB ports, and Wifi 6. This system was $180, all in. You can't find a Pi 4, much less one with equivalent specs for anywhere near this price. If you can find it, an 8GB PI4 is $75 and then you need to buy the case, power suppl…

Pi 400 is about $70, or with power supply and mouse and a few other goodies it is $100. It is essentially a 4gb pi 4 built into a keyboard. The power supply is a basic 15 watt usb-c cube, so you probably have one around already. 400's are fairly easy to buy, unlike 4's. It would be nice if they made an 8gb one. I wonder if DIY upgrade is possible.

good to know! I'll probably be buying a bunch and tearing then apart to use since the pi 4 is so hard to find.

Re: I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer

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Post by musicale »

fragmede wrote: post #198
throwaway81523 wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pi 400 is about $70, or with power supply and mouse and a few other goodies it is $100. It is essentially a 4gb pi 4 built into a keyboard. The power supply is a basic 15 watt usb-c cube, so you probably have one around already. 400's are fairly easy to buy, unlike 4's. It would be nice if they made an 8gb one. I wonder if DIY upgrade is possible.

good to know! I'll probably be buying a bunch and tearing then apart to use since the pi 4 is so hard to find.

The 400 motherboard is laptop like/long and narrow vs. the credit-card style Pi4.

Re: I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer

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Post by rr888 »

layer8 wrote: post #194
PaulWaldman wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup! Currently $190 with the coupon. Amazon seems to have multiple listing for Beelink PCs with the exact same specifications, but different price points.

Now $219 with coupon.

Interesting, I still see $249 with click the box for $60 off.
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