Raspberry Pi 500+ • Hacker News Board

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by vanderZwan » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:21 PM UTC

pdpi wrote: post #31

TiredOfLife wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> screens are more expensive than keyboards This keyboard https://www.norbauer.co/products/the-seneca?variant=48640876... is more expensive than Pro Display XDR with nanotexture and the 1k stand

Adam Savage posted a video a couple of weeks ago, where he discusses this keyboard with Ryan Norbauer. That thing is overengineered to the point I'd argue it actually becomes some sort of artistic statement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3FEv1qw4_w

At least Norbauer immediately states that it's "probably the world's most insanely irrationally hyperengineered keyboard" and later on continues that "nobody needs a 3000 dollar keyboard."

It's clear from that it's a sincere hyper-obsession, shared by others within a small community. I can respect that more than just making something expensive for the sake of appealing to ultra-rich who wish to flaunt their wealth.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by sosborn » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:21 PM UTC

thomassmith65 wrote: post #18

I keep waiting and waiting for a revival of beige plastic in the tech industry. This would be a perfect candidate.

https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chas...

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by sys_64738 » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:22 PM UTC

lproven wrote: post #92

sys_64738 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The power of the Pi comes from the standardized 40 pin GPIO for hooking other devices up to.

I've owned 7, no, 8 of them so far. One is running in my "server room" right now, as my Pi-Hole. I have never ever connected anything to the GPIO.

I connect various devices over I2C and SPI bus for evaluation.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by gorgoiler » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:24 PM UTC

Daily driving with a Pi was very very close to possible for me, back in 2020 when I last tried it, but unfortunately a Pi 4 just didn’t have enough oomph to handle bigger web apps like outlook webmail, Google’s productivity suite, or a few other tools I needed for my job.

How does the Pi 5 family compare, five years on?

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by XorNot » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:25 PM UTC

LiamPowell wrote: post #58

XorNot wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By the inflation calculator that's dead on the money though: https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1960?amount=1 > $1 in 1960 is worth $10.95 today $20 * 10 = $200

The first Raspberry Pi was not released in 1960.

Huh I read minicomputer and assumed we were talking about the first home computers, which that was about their epoch. (TBF I don't think any were ever $20 so that's on me).

Although if you go from the Pi 1 in 2012 at $35 at launch, it would be about $50 today.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by kimmygraham » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:32 PM UTC

Is it possible yet to Miracast from the Pi to a smart TV? I like the form factor, but I'd love to only be tethered to power and not HDMI.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by bitwize » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:32 PM UTC

KolmogorovComp wrote: post #81

Why are Rpis still bothering with SD cards? Who did not get their pi card corrupted while used as a server?

I put an NVMe SSD in a USB3 enclosure and boot my Pi 4 from that, just to be safe. But I've never actually experienced Pi SD card corruption. I don't know whether it's because I choose good power supplies, good cards, or both.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by georgemcbay » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:38 PM UTC

gorgoiler wrote: post #104

Daily driving with a Pi was very very close to possible for me, back in 2020 when I last tried it, but unfortunately a Pi 4 just didn’t have enough oomph to handle bigger web apps like outlook webmail, Google’s productivity suite, or a few other tools I needed for my job. How does the Pi 5 family compare, five years on?

In my experience, its a lot better than the Pi 4 was at fitting this niche, but unless you really need ARM or Pi GPIO or some other specific feature you're better off just using an N150 based mini pc.

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by dheera » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:43 PM UTC

drnick1 wrote: post #89

What'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…

Maybe it can be an advanced keyboard that does more than just a keyboard. Like maybe it calls an LLM and types shit for you, and you plug it into something else as a USB device, and implement USB 1.0 by bit-banging the GPIO or some shit

Re: Raspberry Pi 500+

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Post by Rohansi » Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 9:49 PM UTC

cypherpunks01 wrote: post #99

KolmogorovComp wrote: post #81

Why are Rpis still bothering with SD cards? Who did not get their pi card corrupted while used as a server?

Are sd cards still corrupting all the time in rpi servers even with high-quality SLC sd cards, or just with cheap consumer sd cards?

Most likely cheap or fake SD cards. I've been running a Raspberry Pi camera (recording) to a SanDisk SD card for years and it's still going strong.