Ehrlich Bachman, this is your mom and you, you are not my baby.
Ehrlich Bachman, this is your mom and you, you are not my baby.
Prices for luxury goods are set by what the market will bear.
Yes, that’s my point. If you have a library full of 1080 h264 then the pi 4 is a better choice. The Pi5 will struggle with software decoding compared to the 4.
At the end of the day, they’re different boards with different use cases. I think a lot of people don’t appreciate that enough.
There are two separate entities: the raspberry pi foundation which is the charity and unchanged, and the raspberries pi holdings company which has always been the business side of the project. The corporation contributes to the foundation a significant amount of money which is not changing. The charity is the majority stakeholder in the company.
Here’s the founder explaining it
For a standard media center, kodi is pretty great.
That assumes your media collection is all hevc. That’s not the case for most people.
Pi5 doesn’t have h264 hardware. Pi4 is probably better for media centers right now.
Maybe. I’ll be the first one to call out bad behavior but at this point it’s just knee jerk anticorporate fervor.
The worst thing raspberry pi ever did is dare to be an electronic company during the worst electronics part shortage in our lifetime. People complaining they couldn’t get a pi to do their dinky personal project are the epitome of having first world problems. Prices and availability have been back to normal for over a year now and people still gripe about it. I’m just over it.
I’m sorry but all of these doom and gloom comments are insufferable.
A. The raspberry pis that you have known and loved are all still around and, considering inflation, cheaper than ever. If you’re complaining about prices, stop buying from scalpers!
B. All this talk of enshittification and decline is purely and 100% speculative. You are acting like your catastrophic fears are a forgone conclusion when they’re, at best, a guess.
They share similarities for sure. I’ve not used it though. I know unraid offers a 30 day testing license. Not sure about the others.
If all you’re doing is plex and a minecraft server, look into proxmox or unraid.
Unraid is paid but very noob friendly compared to most others. It’s also very flexible hardware wise.
If you don’t see progress, it’s because you’re not paying attention. Each test flight of starship has performed better than the last.
Not settled in court. An independent law firm investigates the allegations. No court has touched this and likely never will.
Bluetooth and USB speakerphones seem to work fairly well as both mic and speaker. I think thr sennheiser sp20 has been in a couple tinkerers posts I’ve seen.
You can get a decent five year old ThinkPad off ebay that will run circles around an rpi5 for most tasks. The price, after case, power supply, and storage won’t be that far off either.
The older I get, the more becoming a robot tiger seems like as good a retirement plan as I’m gonna get.
A preference cascade by consumers leading to a death spiral.
Watch for tesla to spin off the vehicle business soon and refocus on batteries / energy going forward.
Or they make a copy of your phone, alphanumeric password and all, and just sit on it for ten years until quantum computers make solving the password a piece of cake.
You should assume that any device confiscated by authorities will be copied and broken into eventually. Treat all data on said device as if it’s already compromised.
The question is, at that price can you really afford not to?
I can kind of feel the author on this. I’m in charge of a lot of “special projects” at work that basically come down to, “figure out a way to replicate this extremely expensive technology or software using low cost or free alternatives”. It ends up being an unholy mix of programs and hardware that is held together with duct tape and super glue and any minor perturbation means something breaks.