Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

Raspbian* apparently. That's really interesting; even the highest tier Raspberry Pi still feels pretty sluggish as a desktop thanks to the limitations of SD card throughput/latency/queue depth/etc. I wonder what his usage looks like.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by tyingq » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 1:25 PM UTC

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #3

Is he serious or just trolling? (He has previous form for trolling/having a laugh)

He seems quite serious. He mentions he has 12 stacks of 4 each of the Rpi devices, and another 20 around the house.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by qbasic_forever » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 1:26 PM UTC

jchw wrote: post #6

Raspbian* apparently. That's really interesting; even the highest tier Raspberry Pi still feels pretty sluggish as a desktop thanks to the limitations of SD card throughput/latency/queue depth/etc. I wonder what his usage looks like.

With the pi 4 you can boot off a USB3 drive like a SSD. I setup a 4gb memory model with SSD boot and it's a flawless little desktop--it runs full gnome and Ubuntu just fine. If you can get a 8gb memory model it would be perfect. I love it.

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by mrits » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 1:26 PM UTC

See you back next week

Re: Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

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Post by rattray » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

What was the stated reason?