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Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by alden5 »

danbee wrote: post #809
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.

If you're using a pi you're already in a pinch, putting a dac on a pi seems alot like putting lipstick on a pig, the only scenario where it wouldn't be overkill is music streaming and i highly doubt thats even a majority of pi projects with audio

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by fumeux_fume »

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'…

Use mine as a RoonBridge running RoPieee

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by kube-system »

hattmall wrote: post #820
kube-system wrote: post #749

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Amazon is awash with 928Gb units for about £10 Those are almost certainly 8 to 32GB drives that are modified to report a higher capacity. They are scams that hope your return window expires before you try to load them up with a lot of data. Nobody can profitably manufacture flash drives for less than the wholesale price of the flash chips.

There's no almost about it. They are all scams 100%. The most popular are SD cards with a USB adapter fitted in various housings. The internal adapter or SD cards are modified to do various things like report much larger sizes, allow phantom writes, or even install malware. They can also potentially burn your house down. Search "SD card caught on fire"

The 'almost' part of my comment was the 8-32GB part, not the scam part.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by mlyle »

ryanisnan wrote: post #698
permo-w wrote: post #593

Earlier quoted context omitted.

median is a type of average. the parent commenter means the mean

Is this correct? I know no definition where median can be interpreted as an average.

e.g. M-w.com:

> 1 a > : a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values

Average isn't well defined-- if you have to guess, people probably intend "arithmetic mean" when they say it. But if you're using it in the sense of a single number that represents the typical value of a dataset, you may want the median, mode, or midrange, or even a geometric or harmonic mean depending upon circumstance.

So it's best to use that term. And it's best to be charitable to not jump on people saying "average" when the median might be the best measure of central tendency for a task.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by notatoad »

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.

that definitely sounds like a whinge. raspi is fundamentally an unfinished, everything-not-included product. most use cases require some sort of dongle, hat or other adapter. an audio jack (especially in a context where you're not using an HDMI device that you can get the audio from) is much more niche than a lot of other things that aren't included on-board, like storage or POE.

if it's a trade between a built-in audio jack or a built-in RTC, i'll take the RTC 100% of the time.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by [deleted] »

rollcat wrote: post #658
snvzz wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's always RISC-V.

A CPU instruction set architecture means nothing without someone designing, building, and shipping the rest of the computer around it. https://stat545.com/img/how-to-draw-an-own-imgur.jpg

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Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by jesseryoung »

nathan_f77 wrote: post #792

Great! I'm looking forward to getting a few of these. I currently have five Raspberry Pis running in my house, mainly for dashboards: * Zigbee2MQTT in a closet in the middle of the house * FullPageOS [1] dashboards on the bedroom TV, living room TV, and a screen in my office * RetroPie running emulators and video screensaver on an old CRT TV in my workshop It would be nice to make all of these a little bit faster. [1…

Thank you for FullPageOS. I was thinking of building something for a project I had. This will save me tons of time!

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by travisjungroth »

peteforde wrote: post #131
Zuiii wrote: post #45

I'm tired of information being vague, under-specified, or only available under NDA (if you're lucky). I'm not stupid enough to hop on this ride again. Are there any fully open (in terms of schematics, firmware) RISCV rpi-"compatibles" out there? I'd be happy to pay triple the price of this thing for a power-efficient linux-capable sbc that is open.

Genuinely curious: why does their announcement upset you so much? Most of the tech world announces products, executes a marketing strategy and then releases stock into the market. You make it sound like someone left you standing at the altar. You didn't know it existed an hour ago. If you were on a long vacation, it might have released before your return. Why get angry?

I think you’re talking past each other. The “information” is the schematics and firmware of the board, not the press release and the specs.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by Larrikin »

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'…

Discovering DietPi was kind of a game changer for me. I had the original Pi 1b that basically sat in a drawer after the first month I got it.

I went over to a friends house last year that had a more modern Pi and they had a PiHole on their home network. It was pretty amazing being able to block ads on my phone near totally and not just in Firefox. New Pi's were completely impossible to find but my friend said give DietPi a shot. The benchmarks on my Pi after installing were complete crap, processes took minutes that took a few seconds on the more modern Pis, but AdGuard Home worked flawlessly.

It sent me down the rabbit hole of Tailscale everywhere, self hosting what I can, getting a NAS, and just opened up to me how simple it is to set up these kind of services now that are accessible everywhere.

I recently was able to get a Pi 4 (one week before the Pi 5 announcement of course) and am looking forward to a setup where I can run services that need hard drive access on my NAS and hosting the quality of life apps on the Pi.

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