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Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by _vOv_ »

reedlaw wrote: post #724
LeoPanthera wrote: post #277

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can netboot a Pi. Every Pi in my house netboots. I have a whole bunch of them. Some play games, some play videos, some play music, and a few other minor things. Because they all netboot, you can change what each one does by renaming a file on the server and then rebooting it. It's great.

Do you have a guide or any tips on how to do this?

It's called PXE boot.

You need a server to host the ISO (via http/ftp/tftp or whatever you prefer) and a DHCP server that will distribute the ISO URI to the client.

Configure the client to boot from the network in the bios and put it in the same LAN as the dhcp server.

That's the gist of it.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by andrewstuart »

jlarcombe wrote: post #727

I know this will sound like a whinge but it's really a shame they removed the audio jack, it was so useful for simple sound/music projects.

Removed the audio jack, what the?

That's a fundamental misunderstanding by the hardware designers of what Raspberry pi is.

Raspberry Pi has jumped the shark.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by nfriedly »

sixothree wrote: post #799
nfriedly wrote: post #548

A number of vendors seem to only be showing 4GB and 8GB units for $60 and $80, but https://vilros.com/collections/raspberry-pi-5/products/raspb... has 1GB and 2GB variants for $40 and $50 respectively. https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/ says "LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM (4GB and 8GB SKUs available at launch)" so maybe the cheaper ones will be coming at a later date? Unrelated to that, the addition of a power…

How cow! You can buy them?!

Not yet, but you can pre-order them from some vendors. The 4 and 8gb models should ship in October.

FWIW, the Pi 4 and Pi Zero W are both fairly available these days. The Zero 2 W is still in short supply, but aside from that, the shortage is basically over.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by whyenot »

naikrovek wrote: post #782
Dah00n wrote: post #602

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon is not a good place to get prices from for a comparison. All the enshittification has ruined the prices. As it forces prices up outside Amazon too even outside prices are not useful. To do a proper comparison that doesn't include changes forced by Amazon IMO you need to look at non-US non-Amazon non-Amazon-sellers prices and work with those. Quite annoying really.

I've seen the word "enshittification" three times in three days now, and it is already rubbing my last nerve raw. we make fun of business jargon and buzzword fads, and we do it just as much as anyone else, and it sickens me.

If you were on HN a decade ago, you would have seen "pivot" all over the place. Times change, but we are still human (mostly) and it seems to be part of who we are to mold language to fit our needs and circumstances.

Take "bipping," a word I had never seen before a month ago, but that is now all over the place. (At least in some communities in the Bay Area; I guess all the car break-ins helped it's adoption).

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by sixothree »

nfriedly wrote: post #803
sixothree wrote: post #799

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How cow! You can buy them?!

Not yet, but you can pre-order them from some vendors. The 4 and 8gb models should ship in October. FWIW, the Pi 4 and Pi Zero W are both fairly available these days. The Zero 2 W is still in short supply, but aside from that, the shortage is basically over.

Regardless, this represents a huge shift in strategy!

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by xahrepap »

jamesdhutton wrote: post #800

I am curious to know how people here use their RPIs today, and how the RPI5 might help. I have had a model 3 for many years, which I enjoy tinkering with from time to time. I still haven't gotten over the novelty of having such small, cheap computer that runs Linux and does a pretty good job of it. That said, all I do is tinker with it. I turn it on, write a bit of code, marvel that the code runs, and turn it off. I'…

I use one for each of the following. None of which I think are terribly novel anymore:

- Octopi - PiHole - Grafana/Prometheus for my local network (I push Speedtest results, ping results, among other things to it) - home-made SNES/NES minis

I’m excited to try using the new Pi for a more comprehensive option for a retro arcade including many games that didn’t run very well for me last time I tried. (I instead used a home-built small PC)

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by grrowl »

Archelaos wrote: post #447
stkdump wrote: post #143

No word on price. When Raspberry Pi first launched, this was the prime feature of the thing. Can we expect same price as the Raspberry Pi 4? (at the respective RAM level) Edit: found it here: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/ So the 4 GB model is 60$, which is 5$ more than the 4 GB model of the Raspberry 4 when that was launched: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-.…

> I guess that is fair, especially with inflation nowadays. The accumulated inflation in the US since June 2019 is c. 17%.[1] This means US$ 55 in June 2019 is "worth" c. US$ 64.35 today. So it seems that you get a 4GB Raspi 5 for c. 7.25% less today. The "US Real Average Hourly Earnings" have increase by ca. 22% in the same period, from US$ 27.75 to US$ 33.82.[2] So an average person needs to work c. 12% less to buy…

Worth mentioning Raspberry Pis are designed, and in most cases built and assembled, in the UK.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by MR4D »

> PCIe 2.0 x1 interface

Bummer. That just killed my need for a new one.

Also, if those are micro-USB ports then they have ignored everything that happened since 2020.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by danbee »

jlarcombe wrote: post #727

I know this will sound like a whinge but it's really a shame they removed the audio jack, it was so useful for simple sound/music projects.

The audio jack on Raspberry Pi's has always been terrible quality anyway. Ok in a pinch but it's not a huge loss. If you want quality analog output from a Pi you need a DAC hat.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by zamadatix »

jamesdhutton wrote: post #800

I am curious to know how people here use their RPIs today, and how the RPI5 might help. I have had a model 3 for many years, which I enjoy tinkering with from time to time. I still haven't gotten over the novelty of having such small, cheap computer that runs Linux and does a pretty good job of it. That said, all I do is tinker with it. I turn it on, write a bit of code, marvel that the code runs, and turn it off. I'…

I've been using one for https://pikvm.org/ and it's been a rare case of "the Raspberry Pi is neither ridiculously overpowered, ridiculously underpowered, or even beat out by any off the shelf solution at all let alone at the same price or point". It's literally the best IP KVM I've ever used or owned. The use case is almost a perfect match for the exact hardware capabilities of the Pi: hardware encoding, video input, gigabit network (with Wi-Fi alternative, which has saved me a few times), GPIO, USB OTG, the hat system, open source web KVM software which doesn't suck ass and sit untouched for 13 years with endless security vulnerabilities piling up.
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