[object Object]Feb 28

things are going just great for raspberry pi:

- the only distro that ships the drivers for my display is raspberry pi os so fuck it, terrible it is
- I dd it to the microsd card
- I can’t kvm to the pi4 cause nothing uses microhdmi so I don’t have an adapter
- there’s no way to configure networking and SSH without imager cause all methods were removed in favor of fucking Canonicial cloud-init of all things, which they haven’t actually implemented
- my nixpkgs has a broken rpi imager

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holy fucking shit maybe it should go without saying that I’m not asking for help and I’m especially not asking for help based on something you got from fucking ChatGPT

raspberry pi community are you ok?

Show threadneoludditeFeb 28
@zzt @jpm They hired a UK spy cop a year or two ago and a lot of people left the community over it. Mostly the rPi community is just techno fascists and other morons now.
Show threadI love this, so IFeb 28
@neoluddite @zzt yep that’s why I’ve switched any new SBC purchases to OrangePi, but I’ve still got plenty of RPi’s I use hanging around
Show threadBrendan JonesMar 1
@jpm @neoluddite @zzt I’ve recently been returning to the idea of finally setting up a pi hole with a Raspberry Pi, but this thread gives me pause. Would it be better to do it on an Orange Pi than a Raspberry Pi?
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@Brendanjones @jpm @neoluddite I highly recommend used x86 hardware for non-embedded computing tasks (essentially anything where you don’t need GPIOs, a specific form factor, or passive cooling).

my home file server is a Dell Optiplex 9020M USFF that I got from an enterprise surplus sale for $20. it’s currently running about 10 fairly heavy daemons and a ZFS NAS with the 8GB RAM it came with. they’re a bit more expensive now — eBay says $40, but it’ll be cheaper if it’s available locally

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Show threadvxoMar 1

@zzt @Brendanjones @jpm @neoluddite Those Optiplex USFF machines are no joke. I have a couple running various tasks now and they haven't skipped a beat. The cooling system is remarkably quiet and effective for what it is.

Dare I say the Intel igpu on these is perfectly fine and dandy too

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@vxo @Brendanjones @jpm @neoluddite exactly! I actually have a whole ryzen+ARC desktop I built from used parts (a nightmare build for various reasons) to replace the 9020M in case I run out of resources on the machine, but it’s still chugging along reliably enough that taking it down and swapping the deployment over hasn’t made my todo list yet

the desktop’s also gonna be louder than the USFF even though it’s a box full of noctua and I’m not looking forward to that

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