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Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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I'm happy that they're upgrading the pi, but it's not exactly lightweight computing in terms of power (they recommend a 27W PSU) or performance/watt (see: your cell phone)

To me the charm of the raspi ecosystem was always in giving you a very low power, "always on, almost no power draw" linux environment. Oh well, I guess there's always the older versions or the zero for that.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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anyone could tell me how did you use raspberry pi?

As a controller for my lawn sprinklers that adjusts watering time based on historical rainfall data. Better than adjusting it every few months manually.

Custom cron job that uses:

https://opensprinkler.com/product/opensprinkler-pi/

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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anyone could tell me how did you use raspberry pi?

I use it as part of a till / ePOS system to run a small node / express http server that drives a receipt printer and cash drawer.
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