Comment by 🚀 stack
Re: "There are at least four Raspberry Pis in the house here...…"
A modern AMD 'general use' is many times faster than an overclocked Raspberry Pi going full blast.
2024-12-29 · 1 year ago
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👻 darkghost · 2024-12-29 at 12:35:
@HansBrix Is this the power consumption at the plug or just for the CPU? My measurements were done with a watt meter at the plug for the whole computer, accessories and all.
@stack If a general purpose task is better accomplished using a higher speed, do that. I've found the pi line to be too slow for lots of general purpose tasks until the 500 (skipped the 5.) It's still pretty energy efficient and the 500 at least has no fans. That's all I'm saying. I'm running MX Linux on mine and it's fast enough to run Firefox/LibreWolf without being frustrating. Chromium was the choice because it was that much more efficient but now it's possible to not run chromium, which is very nice indeed.
🚀 stack · 2024-12-29 at 18:44:
Hey, I like the little Pis and own three. However I still have to find a good purpose for them. Too expensive and hard to maintain where microcontrollers would do and too expensive and slow for general purpose use. Maybe I will finally use it for my remote security cam system, aggregating data from a few esp32 cams.
just wanted to follow up, thanks to the AI bubble everythings gone up. pi 500+ is now £393.60 (twice the amount it was originally)
It's nuts. I just bought a Thinkpad with a p7, a terabyte M2 drive and 24GB RAM for under $200 US.
Why would anyone buy a raspberry pi?
💯 agree. I still like their picos and zeros. I do fear those are gonna go up in price too whilst this bubble goes on.
👻 darkghost · Apr 07 at 22:22:
I just made a bird feeder camera from a zero. Perfect board for something like that. But I can foresee the end of hobby SBCs.
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There are at least four Raspberry Pis in the house here... I've been a fan since the first generation. I hope they don't lose sight of their core values, though, with the recent IPO. I recall also hearing about some PR/community blunders recently, but such things can always occur as the business grows.