I'm making a 3D multiplayer game engine that should run on the Raspberry 4:
http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=5959519327505901449
It's still ways off because I choose to make the world voxel based.
I use a Raspberry Pi as my daily computer
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> It could in theory be injecting/monitoring the nic as well. Intel is known to do this shit, Broadcom isn't, yet. I'd always prefer a blob on the boot partition over an EEPROM that i can't access without disassembly.
When the machine owner asks for it, has there been a case where its been caught sending packets otherwise? I mean its a "feature" being sold, if you get a vpro/amt machine it still needs to be turned on (the couple I have, have bios options for enabling/disabling the management features).
There was no proof of the whole NSA Prism thing either, but we still "knew" it would be there and acted as if it was there. Until Snowden leaked the stuff and we learned its name.
I'm not going to wait until the next Snowden uncovers whatever the IME is for.
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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.
Yes. I’d considered tearing a 400 apart because I didn’t need the keyboard at all, but I don’t know what else I’d put it in to save much space.
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#214hey HNers, this is sorta related to an idea I have, using a Pi plus an RF transceiver for reading RFID tags. Commercial ones with Bluetooth seem to run $1,000 or more. I'm helping out with a food distribution org (lfrad.org). One of their gleaners, Steve, would like an easy way to estimate the weight of the food they've collected from a supermarket. The idea we like is to attach an RFID tag to each box of food (not e…
Edit window now closed, so an update:
After much research and brainstorming with my friend Jerry, I'm hitting on some tags from Chipolo. They're in the same league as AirTags and Tile, designed for consumers to find their lost items, not for industrial applications.
Much more expensive than a passive RFID tag, but the "reader" is just your phone, so that's an enormous win. And he only needs a few tags, which will be used over and over.
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#215What 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…
> What is the point for a consumer to use a Raspberry PI 4 today?
does one stop being a consumer once the GPIO is touched?
Intel boards with a unified GPIO are pricey industrial units, and I don't consider pinning out a serial port or parallel port to be a very clean solution; and I consider an attached sister-board Arduino to be even less tidy.
Having a desktop with that type of IO is just handy for the things that I do as hobbies, just as my multimedia Intel-based laptop is handy for when I want to consume media.
the unit price is ridiculous for RPis right now though, i'll certainly agree to that.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Thanks for the heads up. It still has the gpio pins and USB and wifi, I'll just need to find a (bigger) box that fits it. Chips out of a washing machine scenario here
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#217Damn 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.
no snarkyness intended
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 400 motherboard is laptop like/long and narrow vs. the credit-card style Pi4.
Thanks for the heads up. It still has the gpio pins and USB and wifi, I'll just need to find a (bigger) box that fits it. Chips out of a washing machine scenario here
1) The pi 400 is not exactly abundant and it won't be easy to buy large quantities. When I said they were easy to get, I meant you could e.g. put yourself on adafruit's waiting list and get a notification fairly quickly that allows you to snag a unit, or maybe 2 units, but either way it is a low limit. Even if you are obnoxious and go buy up all you can find night and day, it still won't be a lot on the scale of things.
2) the packaging with the keyboard actually is fairly compact. I'm going to use mine like I would normally used a boxed 4b (i.e. as sort of a home server tucked out of sight) but am not going to try taking the board out of the case. It looks like a small keyboard in a normal keyboard enclosure and doesn't take that much space. It isn't really that visible that there is a computer inside.