[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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@zzt @Brendanjones @jpm @neoluddite I've been on the market for a surplus USFF PC for a while now but all I see is 5 to 10 times that price on eBay (in Europe). If I had found one for 20$ I would have bought it in a heartbeat
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@trkzn don't know what country you're in but this kind of refurbished hardware reseller is maybe what you're looking for https://www.remarkt.nl/desktops (I'm not connected to this in any way fwiw).
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Show threadDavid GerardMar 1
@samuel @trkzn ex-corporate desktops are super cheap - 4GB RAM is unusable for desktop work in 2026 but it's awesome for a box that sits there doing stuff. i hit ebay for these things
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@davidgerard @samuel Yeah I've been watching eBay for a while, but as I'm looking for 8 gigs machine with a mid range CPU prices tend to go higher and higher these days.
Show threadDavid GerardMar 1
@trkzn @samuel about £50 for 8gb RAM is achievable lately with rather too much digging, but yeah number is going up
Show threadDavid GerardMar 1

@trkzn @samuel check the job lots section too if you have similar sort of friendsh

(tho not a lot on offer in the UK at present for example)

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@samuel I'm in France, thanks for the link I'll have a look.