nahostdeutschland@nahostdeutschland@feddit.org

Replying to @⁨fonix232@fedia.io⁩

Yeah, their earning report was really something. Raising prices due to “shortages” while reporting a record margin on their products.

(and let’s be honest here: The recent price increases do kind of kill the product line. Most people are better off with a cheap, maybe used thinclient for their homeserver needs. They are not those cheap thingies you can tinker around with anymore)

fonix232@fonix232@fedia.io

Replying to @⁨nahostdeutschland@feddit.org⁩

I knew them going public was a mistake.

The Foundation did great work, because it was by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts.

The private company, I can understand - after all money has to come from somewhere and for proper salaries etc., you need a company.

But going public was just inviting shareholder control, and we all know shareholders only care about short term profit extraction. This is perfectly visible - earnings good so stock goes up, shareholders enjoy dividends and sell high, company crashes and goodbye RasPi.

IIRC Arduino did the same and the only reason the brand is still alive is because Qualcomm decided to buy them up and enshittify the brand even further.

djdarren@djdarren@piefed.social

Replying to an earlier post

I’ve hit a goldmine with my work upgrading all of the PCs.

I now have two Dell Optiplex 7050 and a 3020 micro pcs, all with 8gb of replaceable RAM. Two of them came with 130gb M.2 SSDs, one with a 130gb SATA SSD. All told they cost me nothing, because the company can’t use them (they don’t support Win11), and there’s another 50 machines that can be sold if the boss can be arsed.

None of them will set the world alight, but they’re perfect for little things I want to do at home.

I spent yesterday setting up one of the 7050s with an M.2 NIC, then slapped Proxmox and OpenWRT on it and am now free of the shitty Linksys my ISP gave me.

Next up, I need to whip the two drives out of my 2014 Mac mini Debian server so I can replace it with something that can accept more RAM than the soldered 8gb I’m currently stuck with.

It’s fun!

eurodyne@eurodyne@piefed.world
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And that is…?

Edit: apparently, the cost had jumped from $55-$78. Still, at least $100 less than what it cost in 2016 when I was in school for an RPi 2. I’m having a huge amount of trouble finding scaler comparisons between RPi and standard server set up.

Genuinely asking: for the Rpi fans out there, what’s it actually capable of nowadays? Can I run a Plex server off of a single RPi?

I am looking to replace a 2011 iMac (i7-2600) as my Plex server,, I’d like to know if a modern RPi could handle the load.

Advice, please?

eurodyne@eurodyne@piefed.world
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Yeah, I saw an eighth generation i5 OptiPlex SFF that I thought was kind of tasty. Refurbished for under $500. I was just wondering if a modern RPi could actually handle the load. I used a few in school about 10 years ago, but I’ve heard they’ve become really far in that time.

BTW, I put in a request for quote on a refurbished ThinkCentre. I’ll let you know what they tell me. Here’s the link to the machine.

https://www.pcliquidations.com/p27443-lenovo-thinkcentre-m91-usff

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eurodyne@eurodyne@piefed.world

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Is this denominated in strips of gold-pressed latinum? Because I don’t understand these numbers

https://www.ebay.fr/itm/236981434615?itmprp=cksum%3A236981434615775ff53654e045978632d22b9f6129b8%7Cenc%3AAQALAAABEHgGRw9n%252BWZ%252FIF6wkBA9slFMI%252FzMPv6aV3OidAYwF5pv55oyNNPDqKWyGPZjeQkKPmkveydDVNwGyco6yTZYzLRgvINC6ynQN%252F6XUKDVsqOimRZJ3flldIMgcQuPFBgs8lfoxSB4MscGngzy32W%252BXPavqNdussQ6pNc2BwYOv1fI42yfiOhfaRVCUQFUs6TTff1pnccdWY6%252FaJf0cHPhV0AhG9v7TPEsDSQCyMIBSc%252BpJ74C7BtMpHCODVHECyc728kH8jhlsfV2QQSzQYoi149%252F1K3SBMboi1%252BKLM4u1Go03S8uxc%252Fcfzl1nlJmO5xA5d75YBBx9hPh57s35QJ0F1NcALRcVy%252BjF%252FvHxbyBrBMP%7Campid%3APL_CLK%7Cclp%3A2332490&itmmeta=01M43NRY7NCQT2G24D10W5CZ3T

eurodyne@eurodyne@piefed.world
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I asked for some advice about my cat, not some asshole engaging in some legalistic here or there.

If you wanna be a Cunt, fuck off.

And because you have no concept of nuance, I’ll be very plain: you! Fuck off!

I have no interest in anything you may ever have to say, and I have therefore blocked you.

Fuck off! Is that clear enough for you, you fucking Cunt?

Don’t bother replying, because I want to see it as you’re blocked. Just deck, the shotgun in your face and pull the trigger. Because no one will ever care about anything you have to say, especially me.

Captain Aggravated@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works

Replying to @⁨eurodyne@piefed.world⁩

what’s it actually capable of nowadays?

I’ve got a Borg Backup server running on a Pi 2. I’m starting to play with Home Assistant on a Pi 4.

That Pi 4 has had a few lives so far. It served as a rather mediocre desktop running Ubuntu MATE for awhile. At the time I found RPi’s “Pixel” desktop to be pretty unlivable, almost everything they’d done to LXDE to make Pixel was an exercise in breaking LXDE. MATE was reasonably functional. Building a Ryzen 3600 machine was of course a vast improvement.

I then transitioned that Pi 4 to an HTPC running OSMC (basically Debian Kodi). I had a couple of problems with it: 1. to put audio out the built-in audio jack, you had to edit some config file to enable the option in the menu. Because this is Linux, a Linux developer can’t make his microdick hard enough to penetrate the layer of crust sealing the anus of his pinhole punctured blow-up doll if he ships a GUI that’s good enough. 2. That entry in that config file kept either undoing itself, or what the system was looking for changed. I swear I’d put that line in, it would work for awhile, something would happen, and then I’d have to go in and change the line that’s still in there to some other syntax to get it working again. 3. Driving a 4k60 display was another problem that kept unsolving itself. Sometimes it could do it through one HDMI port but not the other, oh no wait it’s max 4k30, oh wait it can do 1080p60 though, oh but it’s still driving the monitor at 4k30 in such a way that trying to play back 1080p60 gets out of sync with the audio, pauses for several seconds, then resumes. If you’ve got a 720p television and you intend to use its internal speakers maybe it’ll work.

Seems to run Home Assistant okay though the SD card is probably doomed.

Aceticon@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Replying to @⁨jacksilver@lemmy.world⁩

Yeah, I had a similar experience getting my Orange Pi 5 Pro to just allow me access to I2C (though once you figure it out, it’s a lot easier to also get stuff like GPIO, SPI and so on to work).

In fact that’s the general problem with the chinese SBCs compared to the Raspberry Pi devices - their support software, documentation and general support out there on the Internet from other users is a much weaker, at least in English - to get that stuff to work I actually on my Orange Pi I actually had to get an Ubuntu for Rockchip and then figure out how to manually add a device tree overlay with the required devices enabled whilst I believe the Raspberry Pi just has a utility that does it for you.

HOWEVER, the user who had asked for advice higher in this thread only seems to care about hosting, for which you just need “normal” Linux functionality not the embedded side of things, in which case those things work just fine even with just ARMbian - as far as I can tell all those manufactures do make available a Linux distro for their devices which supports the built-in peripherals (most relevant for hosting, wi-fi and when present ethernet) and does the normal things a desktop Linux does. That said, they quickly stop pushing out updates to it, which might be a problem.

This is why I mentioned Orange Pi and in another response suggested general Chinese SBCs - if all you need if run-of-the-mill Linux server functionality in a cheap platform, those probably suffice.

jacksilver@jacksilver@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩

Glad to hear I’m not the only person who has had some difficulties. And yeah, you are right that it should be fine for hosting services, which is why I mentioned my specific use cases.

However, I think calling out lack of support is always a good thing as you never know what support you may need down the road. I definitely have run into some issues due to their supported OS I’m running and its surprisingly out of date for a board that only released a couple years ago.

jacksilver@jacksilver@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨Ghoelian@piefed.social⁩

OrangePi support is terrible. Maybe it’s better with the 5, but the 4 I’ve struggled with getting a library to work with the GPIO pins, documentation on the NPU is limited, and I can’t get it to recognize a standard serial camera.

It’s possible I’m just trying to do weird things, but it’s a much worse experience than I’ve ever had with a raspberry pi and I regret not spending more to just get the pi. I’ve lost probably 10+ hours just trying to deal with some things I’d consider basic, and had to create weird workarounds that hurt performance in other areas.