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Linking some choice examples.
Thankfully the single board computer market has much better options than Pi boards nowadays.
Do you know what the alternatives are? Because until today in my head I just assumed I'd get a Pi again in the future. I have an rpi2.
Been seeing a bunch of articles on Hackaday about people using cheap thin clients like old chrome boxes. You gotta do some minor firmware work on them, but you end up with a more powerful computer, minus the GPIO pins. Probably what I'm going with as PIs are overpriced as hell nowadays.
Esp32s are great if you just need some IoT type functions.
There are many, many youtube tutorials out there, friend. As someone who was raised on computers, like way back in the 80's, the majority of my knowledge still came and comes from googling error messages. Code not working? Google the error message. Program not installing? Google the error message. Once you learn the basic keywords/jargon, it's really just a matter of googling what you want to do and finding a tutorial on it.
Like literally on Google or youtube: [program or hardware] tutorial [extra keywords]
Esp32 tutorial pihole Esp32 tutorial wifi hacking Raspberrypi sonarr tutorial Etc
Idk your situation, so maybe, but just remember that sucking at something is the first step to becoming kinda good at something. o7
There's also been a few 5ghz microcontrollers that have been coming out that i havne't messed with yet. Hoping they have the same sort of wifi security fuckery capacities as the esp32.🤞
That depends. What do you intend to do with it? Do you need to run x86 or ARM applications? Does it need to be general purpose and run Linux proper or do you just want to upload a single program to it?
Yeah good questions. I use(d) my Pi as a general purpose Linux platform (with no care or preference to the architecture). Basically, a dirt cheap Linux desktop or server.
If it's just a cheap Linux capable Pi-like board then you're really spoiled for choice:
- Libre Computer Le Potato (a Pi 3 B+ clone with HDMI 2.0)
- Libre Computer La Frite (a Pi 3 B+ clone)
- OrangePi Prime
- Banana Pi M3
- Mango Pi (are you seeing a pattern yet)
- Pine64 Rock64
- Rock Pi 4
- Odroid XU4
- ASUS Tinker Board
And many, many more.
@git please comrade make a thread explaining this for us dumb old people. I would really like to get into this sort of creator space, but I'm dumb as bricks and can't even fathom where to start if it doesn't involve going to google dot com and typing "raspberry pie computer best value cheap"
You can tell I'm a techno-peasant, because I tried to @ you and fucked it up. HELLLLLPPPPPPP!!!
I'm assuming most of these will work as the hardware for a pihole?
PiHole just requires anything that can essentially run as a supported Linux distro. https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/prerequisites/ so your assumption is probably correct based on a sampling of those suggestions I looked up.
I currently have it in a Debian VM on my server (i.e. an old Thinkpad), but I've also run it in the past on both a raspberry pi 1 and 2, since the raspberry pi operating system is just a Debian derivative.
If you don't care about size/efficiency also consider getting a used Thinkpad on ebay. Can pretty easily get a a T430 or newer for less than $50.
That's what I did when I wanted a media box but all the Pi's were out of stock everywhere.
I have a T440s for this exact purpose. About 5 years ago I bought it really cheap for the time because it doesn't have a functioning trackpoint/touchpad. After a short-lived life as my desktop replacement it's been my server ever since.
A special nice thing about it was I was able to send some kind of command from Linux to restrict how much the battery charges, so I have that capped at 75%. I do this because I assume it's healthier than letting the battery rest at 100% 24/7/365.
looks like somebody thinks their product isn't an easily-replaceable commodity
Guess I'll just order more bootleg Chinese pis for my plants:shrug-outta-hecks:
Silver linings: this means marcan has at least semi-cool politics if he's posting this.
This makes me feel even better about throwing money at his Patreon for the Asahi Linux work.
Yeah. The official instance changed this terminology from Toot to Post some time ago, but the legacy is still there.
edit: I should be clear, Mastodon's designed in a way that there isn't really an "official" site, just like there's no official email site. I just meant the same one run by its lead developer, mastodon.social, has changed the terminology away from that stupid toot riff on tweet.
But I just got proficient with my Pi based htpc :angery:
Yeah but I want ARM so just a different SBC would have me covered.
Why arm doe? You could get low power x86 mini pcs on aliexpress for 150 dollars.
There are ones with gpio pins too.
Personal preference. I'd like to use RISC based architectures as much as possible for the high performance/watt. I hope RISC is the future so I want to stay familiar.
only way I'd support this is if he's an alcoholic private investigator, who's been out of the force for a decade after the Marozano Affair, called Raspberry P. I. Goes on noir style monologues that inexplicably segue into use cases for a single board computer
What does one expect from the Br*tish?
From the beginning I would have bet they have backdoors in them for western intelligence if their whole foundation isn't itself western intelligence cut-out.
