If you want to save power you can clock down your CPU in yout shittop. There wouldnt be meaningful difference in power consumption. At the same time if you wanted to run more powerful applications you can still while with the raspberry pi you are stuck with your slow chip.
Raspberry Pi 4 has been announced. It looks like it's using VC5 because there's actually 1GB 2GB and 4GB versions
Michael Smith
Caleb Flores
fuck off with your miniature connectors, I hate dongles
My pi zero w's can crash when struck by indirect sunlight. The beams are not hitting the board directly, just box holding it. Is it EMI related or does this board not thermal throttle properly? I don't know if only the W does this, this is the only board I use near the elements. Imagine if your phone turned off whenever you went outside.
You can buy an atomic pi with power delivery for about $50 on amazon. Next tier up is $100 of old x86 computer parts.
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Christopher Cooper
It is if you're paying for it you litteral nigger.
Gavin Wright
Just put it inline with a device that inspects packets like PFSense and see if there are is anything sketchy in the logs.
Kevin Reed
Retard, I do rent a house and pay all my own bills. My computers amount to less of my electrical bill than literally any other appliance, or the lights, or the fart fan in the bathroom. The biggest part of the bill is the HVAC, and I have natural gas heat, so only the cooling is on electrical; and my house is well insulated so my bill is pretty cheap anyway. And that's with always running my bedroom ceiling fan on low if I'm in the room, since I can't sleep well without air circulation and the breeze is comfy anyway.. I might pay a dollar a month to power my laptop and two dollars for my desktop, max. I reiterate - a laptop takes less energy than a lightbulb. I don't believe you're even 18.
Jonathan Perez
Good luck throwing 50 bucks in the trash
Ayden Johnson
Search for "rpi camera shy"
Eli Thomas
It's true, if your computer doesn't sit at a few hundred watts 24/7, the bill impact is pretty low, especially if power is cheap to begin with in your country/area. There are many people that just leave their computers on all day, a good impact on cost and environmental help such people can make for cheap and with little effort is turning it off/putting it to sleep when they're not using it. You don't really have to buy a shitty notebook with the pubes of the previous owner in the keyboard though. A modern x86 itx system is not that expensive, especially when you build it yourself.
If you are concerned about the environment, buying something like the Pi is also the last thing you should do. There's kind of an "energy debt" producing and selling anything creates in our modern society. That debt is higher than people think. To really "justify" some of these electrical appliances, you'd sometimes have to use them for decades. That's what the eggheads mean when they talk about our lifestyles being "not sustainable". If you replace your 35W Laptop with a 5W SBC, you're not only not really saving power in a meaningful way (you'd take a long-ass time to break even on the price) you're also hurting the environment since that 5W SBC has to be produced and delivered for you and eats much more energy in the process than you using your old laptop would do. Here buying used is actually the environmentally friendly way.
Getting a cheap, useful entry-level computer for basic work is a solved problem in any modern western society. They are abundant. Everyone who says different either knows very little about computers or is lying through their teeth. I don't know if the Fundation advertises the Pis as "green option" (vs. regular computers) but if they do so then that'd be extra dishonest since these things get pushed on nerds that don't really use them for anything and they also refresh them every few months with incremental updates which only adds to the trashheap as people then get the new one they also don't need.
David Cruz
What if you live a country where power is not cheap? Am i finally alloed to use a raspi without underage faggots on Zig Forums throwing a hissy fit?
Josiah Wilson
That's weird, but you can buy all the Banana Pi Zeros you want, and those don't need the VideoCore boot blob.