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Introducing Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com)
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[-] Codename_goose@sh.itjust.works 171 points 11 months ago

Can’t wait to not be able to order one.

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Love the fact community is already mocking the fact they have distribution issues. While I had Twitter account their PR team was going full force demonstrating how it can be used and promoting projects that use it... all the while it's out of stock everywhere, constantly. I would have number of sites "notify" me when they are back in stock, only to be sold out seconds after. Luckily kind person shared a site which tracks where it can be purchased and for what amount but the mere fact such a tool has to exist just shows there's a serious problem.

[-] Surp@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago

Sold by a scalper near you five seconds after it's sold out at launch

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Was able to get rpi3bs easy...4 drops...never saw one that wasn't overpriced scalped shit.

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

4s were pretty easy to find pre 2020, I bought one at launch and 2 more before the pandemic hit and I never paid more than MSRP for any of them.

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[-] Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Just wait until the market stabilizes.

These aren't GPUs in the crypto boom, they don't produce their own profit. Stop buying from scalpers and the price will crater.

[-] Eyelessoozeguy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It's not the everyman buying from scalpers its industry buying cheap pis over plc, when it's that much cheaper scalper prices isnt much to them. And they need them NOW. Gotta love just in time manufacturing.

[-] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 43 points 11 months ago

At $80 a pop, might get more oomph from an older optiplex if electricity cost isn’t too big of a concern?

[-] Goodvibes@lemmy.cafe 17 points 11 months ago

That display out will be hard to match with an old optiplex or laptop, but I agree, the pricing is getting less absurdly low and more just moderately low.

[-] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

To be fair, I'm guessing the majority of Pi's are used headless anyway. Plus even the older Optiplexes have DVI, which is just HDMI without the audio or fancy stuff like ARC. Won't be getting 4K or anything, but still a very good video output and IMO adequate for almost all use cases.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

I'm betting a decent amount of them are used as media PCs. The x265 decoding, 4kx60hz output, 2x speed ram and better wifi are much appreciated for that application.

[-] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 3 points 11 months ago

True. I’m looking for an extra headless system so it doesn’t directly affect me, but that could certainly be a concern if you’re in need for 4K.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

Not to mention a used PC is upgradable and can run proxmox

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 40 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
PoE Power over Ethernet
RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage
SBC Single-Board Computer
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage

8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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[-] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

Thank you friendly robot :) I couldn't stop assuming PoE meant Pillars of Eternity! 😅

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[-] IAm_A_Complete_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I don't think the SATA acronym is right...

[-] Lasso1971@thelemmy.club 26 points 11 months ago

Since switching my server to an x86 based platform, I'm not jumping back to arm any time soon. Maybe some day

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[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

I'm waiting for my RISC-V boards. Fuck this.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don't go for a Pi. They don't run stock Linux anyway.

I would get a board from pine64. There are also plenty of other options that are cheaper

Used mini PCs are also an option

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago
[-] andreluis034@lm.put.tf 17 points 11 months ago

I guess he means that raspberry pi doesn't run a mainline kernel

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 months ago

Precisely. You can't just boot up any arm image

[-] mara@pawb.social 4 points 11 months ago

This is true with ARM in general. There's no "standard Linux" to boot because every board needs its own device tree and set of core kernel modules for detecting important things like local storage. It's fairly intractable due to how different the hardware is.

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[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago

They can, just need correct drivers. We have mainline Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu for them now.

[-] AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Currently, and I could be wrong, the alternative to a Pi 4 from Pine64 now would be a Pine64's Quartz64 Model B. A Star64 might be interesting, but that's RISC-V so who knows what OS you could boot on it currently and if it would even be stable.

Plus with the Quartz64 Model B, who knows if you'll able to get a good case for it. There's the $28 “Model B” ALUMINUM WATERPROOF ENCLOSURE, but, eh, no thanks. There's the open enclosure, but that's also a no for me. I want a case I can hide the device itself, the cables, put a heatsink and fan on, be able to use an SSD with USB connect and connect a power supply all stuffed in a case. Which you can find plenty of for Raspberry Pi's.

Not to mention the Pi 5 isn't even out yet, and it's entirely possible it'll be better than the Quartz64 Model B, on top of having a ton of accessories. Plus, I can Pi up practically any Pi at the Microcenter or similar store near me as opposed to having to pay for good shipping.

I'm totally for having alternatives to the Pi, heck I might pick up a Quartz64 Model B if I can find a case, but a lot of alternatives don't have the same support and accessories the Pis do.

[-] Smacks@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Coming to a scalper near you!

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[-] qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 11 months ago

I've been eyeing an Orange Pi 5+ for my RPi4 upgrade


think I may stick with that route, but glad to see RPi putting out another model.

My experience with RPis over the years was that the multimedia was way better supported than alternatives, but for self hosting that's not really relevant for me (headless, and don't really care about transcoding).

[-] Wolf@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I ordered an OrangePi 3 recently for pihole purposes and it has been great, it’s also probably overkill for this use but hey it was actually in stock and not terribly expensive.

[-] Radium@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

I wonder why they didn’t add usb-c

[-] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

Will it be able to run Jellyfin with 4K content?

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

I’m running Emby with 4k content from an Odroid HC-2. If you have a 4k TV it should support the H.265 codec without transcoding so the resources for sending videos is low.

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Never got over social-media-a**hole-gate.

Out of curiosity is there an equivalent SBC to this new 5 model out there?

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

Fan-tastic! 🤭

[-] Jajcus@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Doesn't sound like the 'cheap small computer you can run your hobby electronics project on' that the original Pi used to be. It is not as cheap and a power hungry beast, still small, though. More and more like a PC and less and less a small cheap embedded platform. For some people it is a plus (I guess for most people here), for some not so much.

I tend to build my projects on Raspberry Pi Pico now, but sometimes I would need something more powerful and Raspberry Pi 5 will be too much.

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

The project goal has never been a 'cheap small computer you can run your hobby electronics project on'. The whole point of the project is to build a small cheap PC to give away to school children to increase computer literacy, while making it attractive enough for normal people to buy to fund the charity side

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[-] shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
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