cdt5050

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by cdt5050 2y ago
And that gets really, really complicated when you have 1 teacher and 200 students to teach that week, each with a different hardware configuration, differing skill levels, devices in various states of repair, etc. RPi is pretty much the che
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by cdt5050 2y ago
Nah, the lack of hardware is a real problem in developing countries, and is something that OLPC and Raspberry Pi are well suited to solve. But hardware is the easy part -- the much harder part of the problem to solve is the lack of human ca
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by cdt5050 2y ago
The Pi 500 does definitely swing in the direction of the computer. IMO the target demographic of the Pi 500 are people who want, first and foremost, a desktop PC, but one that is well suited to hobbyist computing and/or computing educa
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by cdt5050 2y ago
A huge reason SD cards have been unreliable in the past is because of a lack of wear leveling functionality, and architecture assuming sequential writes (e.g. large buffers that require larger blocks of data to be erased and rewritten even
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by cdt5050 2y ago
Pi 5 is a great everyday desktop and development machine. Some websites are going to perform really badly, like a lot of news websites with lots of ads, but those tend to perform bad on my gaming PC, too, and I just think if a website perfo
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by cdt5050 2y ago
The performance difference is practically unnoticeable in day-to-day desktop use. People don't really care about 15 second vs. 20 second boot time, and that first boot of Firefox is going to be another pretty meh comparison. Subsequent
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by cdt5050 2y ago
I find that communities like these are far too focused on "TECHNICALLY CORRECT". Like, yeah, there are some things that technically are faster and cheaper than a Raspberry Pi, like that ebay special or that Alibaba-only SBC that&#
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by cdt5050 2y ago
The Raspberry Pi has three huge advantages over those other options: 1) GPIO, letting you do things like learning to flash LEDs or controlling robotic arms and getting ready to use a Pi Zero for robots or such. 2) Cool add-ons, like the Pi
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by cdt5050 3y ago
Upton talked about this in an interview. It's partly the interplay of manufacturing at this point, too. When they have parts, they'd like to catch up with the backlog faster. Because the 5 doesn't rely on the robots that plac
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by cdt5050 3y ago
Because I don't just want a PC, I want a learning/hacking/making platform, with the ecosystem and support to go along with it. A used nuc or dumpster dived computer doesn't have two magazines, a couple dozen books, offic
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by cdt5050 3y ago
The biggest reasons to prefer a Pi over a mini PC: the documentation, Raspberry Pi Press, the community, the ecosystem. Let's put it this way: you pop in your SD card, set up a username/password, a few other settings, and you end
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by cdt5050 3y ago
It doesn't require a person to change how they think about programming from their college C or Java classes, but is a lot simpler than those two languages.
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by cdt5050 3y ago
I was using a Pi 400 for my programming PC, basically testing out if I can sell my gaming PC after I got my steam deck. It was perfectly capable for that task, and I’d say I would be happy to use it as my primary desktop PC. Just sold my Pi