Why are Rpis still bothering with SD cards? Who did not get their pi card corrupted while used as a server?
Raspberry Pi 500+
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Re: Raspberry Pi 500+
#82All the marketing for this advertises it as a desktop computer. What's the appeal of this compared to a cheaper and more powerful N150 NUC, or a used mini PC if it's for personal use where you just need one? A N150 has about twice the CPU performance, hardware video decoding that isn't crippled, and much more software built for its architecture among other things.
It can be used as a usb gadget device, i am not aware of any SFF x86 PC that has such a chip.
Re: Raspberry Pi 500+
#83Why are Rpis still bothering with SD cards? Who did not get their pi card corrupted while used as a server?
Yeah, worst thing about it. You can’t really push it to do a lot of tasks because sd cards are so unreliable, compared to nvme for example.
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#84Why are Rpis still bothering with SD cards? Who did not get their pi card corrupted while used as a server?
Second paragraph in the article:
"Raspberry Pi 500+ boasts ... an internal M.2 socket pre-fitted with a 256GB Raspberry Pi SSD"
so I'm not sure what your point about SD cards is in this case.
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#85Why are Rpis still bothering with SD cards? Who did not get their pi card corrupted while used as a server?
Yeah, worst thing about it. You can’t really push it to do a lot of tasks because sd cards are so unreliable, compared to nvme for example.
This has an nvme with the OS pre-installed.
Re: Raspberry Pi 500+
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it ... is it worth buying for the keyboard alone?
If it's just the keyboard appearance itself piquing your interest, you might check out the Keychron K3 (the brand has apparently grown a lot since I was last shopping around for keyboards, so it looks like they have a "K", "K Pro", and "K QMK" as well as several other "[Insert Letter Here]" lines of models now... back then all they had were K keyboards). To clarify, this is to say I'm looking on their website right n…
Yep I second this. I have a K1 (I think) with blue switches. The switches are the most important choice - since that controls the entire feel of using the keyboard. When I first got mine, I got red switches. But red switches don’t give you any tactile feedback when it passes the threshold to be considered “pressed”. I swapped to blues and I love them. Very satisfyingly clicky. They’re a bit loud though. Swapping switches is easy - I think the replacement set of blues just set me back $20 or something.
If there are any computer shops you can go in person to try them out, I highly recommend it. They make a lot of different switches and the feel is a very tactile, personal thing. (Though I think I’d also be happy with yellow or brown switches after some time with them!)
Re: Raspberry Pi 500+
#87I'm confused by the use case for this. The keyboard gets a cable running to a monitor. Might need a power cable as well but let's assume usbc covers both. An alternative is a raspberry pi on the vesa mount, or attached to the monitor arm. The cable to a keyboard is now optional, wireless USB being much easier than wireless displayport. Keyboard can now be flat too. When is this a good idea?
> wireless USB being much easier than wireless displayport
I'm sure you meant bluetooth but just so we're all clear: Wireless USB isn't easy at all. Hardware availability for it is very limited and you'll need adapters on both ends. Frankly there's more hardware to wirelessly transfer HDMI than USB.
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#88For 200€, you can get yourself an old Thinkpad, flash it with some coreboot variation, install a GNU/Linux distribution and in process you will learn more things and it is not an RGB keyboard; it is really an "all-in-one PC".
"For that price, you can just use an old laptop" has been true ever since the OG Raspberry Pi showed up ~13 years ago.
And that's great, and stuff, if what a person wants is the most compute they can get for the fewest dollars possible.
But when someone instead wants a quite small computer that is actually friendly to hardware tinkering, and they want to buy it new, then a used Thinkpad will not scratch that itch -- but a new Raspberry Pi will.
(It's a bad comparison. It always has been a bad comparison.)
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#89What's the point of this? Most of us here on HN probably already own good to god tier mechanical keyboards. If I really wanted a Pi (I don't), I would get a VESA mount for it. But you have to keep it mind that Pi's can't even play 4k videos at 60fps reliably and are kind of a terrible choice for general desktop use against N100 (or later) mini-PCs, or even used thin clients like ThinkCenters with laptop CPUs that are far more capable.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> QL-looking for the Spectrum I was going to object, but probably right to just skip the horror of the true Spectrum keyboard.
Maybe they meant the ZX Spectrum II, known to some as “The Toaster” for some reason. Rubber keyboard, I heard it referred to as dead-flesh. It put me off computing for a few years, that and all the bloody modes for different keywords.
You are mixing up several different computers here.
> Maybe they meant the ZX Spectrum II
No. There was never never a "Spectrum II".
The second model after the original 16K and 48K was the ZX Spectrum Plus, in a keyboard derived from the 1984 Sinclair QL design.
http://www.retro8bitcomputers.co.uk/Sinclair/ZXSpectrumPlus
Then the 3rd model was the ZX Spectrum 128, in the same keyboard, but with more ports and a large external heatsink.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2584/sinclair-zx-spe...
> known to some as “The Toaster” for some reason.
Nope. The 128 was known as the "toastrack" for the heatsink.
> Rubber keyboard, I heard it referred to as dead-flesh.
Not since the Plus model, no.
After the 128, Amstrad bought the brand. It launched the ZX Spectrum +2 and +3.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/3648/Sinclair-ZX-Spe...
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/509/Sinclair-ZX-Spec...
Those are the closest to the nonexistent model number "II" but they do not have the QL-derived keyboard.