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Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by el_benhameen »

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 don’t know how serious this is, but I have one in a waterproof box in the backyard and one in the garage to run the irrigation for my garden, etc. They work well enough that I often forget they’re there. There’s another in the office closet running a dynamic dns script and that’s there to use as an ssh tunnel and such.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by ako »

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 have a pi running to continuously collect data from my home, temperature, lights, gas usage, electricity usage, weather, etc. It runs Benthos to get all the data (MQTT + http), and stores everything in Postgres.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by Calvin02 »

shlubbert wrote: post #771
pluto_modadic wrote: post #741

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You've gotta back up claims like that with at least some kind of citation or it just comes across like libel.

Just did a few searches using his name + politics. His blog was the first link. It appears that he is a devout catholic and opposed to progressive policies.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by older »

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.

Olimex produces fully open boards, but noting RISCV based which is capable of running Linux yet AFAIK.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by nar001 »

Calvin02 wrote: post #833
shlubbert wrote: post #771

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've gotta back up claims like that with at least some kind of citation or it just comes across like libel.

Just did a few searches using his name + politics. His blog was the first link. It appears that he is a devout catholic and opposed to progressive policies.

Let's hope he changed since, considering his last politics posts seem to be from 2012!

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by thegarliccheese »

Phrenzy wrote: post #818
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 have 4 pi4's running HiFiBerryOS. They connect to my Roon VM. I can group them together & they will play the same song in sync. I have a pi4 running OSMC with the Plex addon attached to my television. I've got about a half dozen Pi 0 W's with addon sensors that inform my Home Assistant of the temp, humidity, PM2.5 level, and CO2 levels in each room. I just ordered a CM4 to run the PiKVM board for my homelab server.…

You could switch out the Pi 0 W's with ESP32's or Raspberry Pico W's (if you'd like to stay in the Raspberry ecosystem). They're a lot cheaper, require less power, have a smaller footprint, aren't too hard to set up and there's usually a library ready for every sensor.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by anticensor »

badtension wrote: post #441
Narishma wrote: post #332

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> The raspi 4 was just on the cusp of being usable as a main computer, I wonder how good this will be. Don't worry, software developers are on it. Soon the Pi 5 will also be on the cusp of being usable as a main computer.

What? Software getting slower faster than hardware getting faster? Impossible!

That phenomenon even has a name: Wirth's law.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by ThrowawayR2 »

justin66 wrote: post #592
agloe_dreams wrote: post #575

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Sure...but it might take me a while...how about this, I'll name...as of current, 385 under $100 all with free shipping: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mini%20pc&_sa... The Pi5 is slower than a Core i3 6100, does not support upgradable ram, does not support Pci Gen 3 let alone Gen 3 x16, no actual Sata 6, no upgradable sockets, etc. There are a TON of uses cases for a Pi 5...but only really if power co…

Someone buying used electronics on eBay has already decided that their time is worthless and the hardware doesn't need to be dependable out of the box. Which is fine, those are decisions a person could make, but it's just disingenuous to compare the value of one thing to another without taking the you are using someone's untested trash factor into account.

That's just silliness. The Raspberry Pi 4 / 5 are made with sub-$60 dollars worth of materials when brand new. You get what you pay for, which is not much and certainly doesn't include dependability. It's a hobbyist and educational plaything whose top design priority is to be low cost.

Little 1-liter office PCs from HP/Dell/etc. have MSRP closer to $1000 when new, meaning a correspondingly larger BOM cost, and are built to last until obsolete by PC OEMs who have years of experience doing that. Even well used units have better prospects for durability and longevity than new Raspberry Pi boards.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by throwaway2990 »

lonjil wrote: post #689
throwaway2990 wrote: post #314

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Na it’s too slow. I got one and I don’t touch it. I do also have an orange pi 5 and khandas edge 2 pro. Both are miles ahead of the rpi4 and based on specs they are miles ahead of the rpi5.

In actual real benchmarking OPi5 is about the same as RPi5.

You’re joking right? It’s half the performance of the opi5…

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by birdyrooster »

qwertox wrote: post #301

A NVMe compatible M.2 M Key connector (like the Rock 5 Model B [0] has) would have been really nice. I'm starting to accumulate old but good, yet small in storage space terms NVMe's which I'm no longer needing, but which would be perfect for a Raspi. Even if the PCIe bus were an older generation and not as performant as the NVMe. The microSD card slot is really great to have, to get up-and-running, but once it's clea…

Meanwhile in reality when nvme drives die in like 6 months… ughhhh
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