I just dont get the raspberry pi. But then I was a couple years

>>58642378
it's just something cool you can tinker with for a couple of weeks and then stuff in a drawer for the rest of your life

you can make a paintball sentry gun controller that shoots people based on their skin color from a camera etc

>>58642406
See that's what I thought, but I look back later and it's still on the Amazon bestsellers lists and they've released a third version and they have a competitor. Weird

>>58642423
Ok.... Now you have my attention..... #BlackPanthers

>>58642378
They're great for DIY projects.

The general purpose pins mean you can make just about any electronics and it can be a fully functional desktop computer.

The raspberry pi specifically is popular because it was the leader in making a consumer product SBC that was marketed as having practical uses (like giving it to school children so they can learn basic electronics and programming).

Too weak to do real computing, too powerful to be used as embedded micro controllers.

>>58642555
Just right to be used as a DIY, general purpose microcontroller or lightweight PC

>>58642423
I'm pretty sure this is illegal

>>58642580
Not everyone lives in Fascist States.

>>58642423
smart to add "paintball" to that sentence.

>>58642378
you can setup a plex/kodi server to stay online all the time (it consumes little power) and stream music and movies to any device.
Some people have the retro games kink too, retropie + cheap chink controllers from ebay/ali = $$
Also used for PieHole/VPN and home automation

>>58642378
A general-purpose microcomputer that runs 3 operating systems and has analog input-output system.

Mine is currently running as a RetroPie machine (shocker). People make net things with them thoug. Such as GameGrrl, there is paintball sentries as >>58642423 said, and alot more. People like it because its small, light, cheap, cost-to-performance is good, doesn't use alot of power (great for portables or deployables), and has a great community. The real question is "What will you make with one?"

>>58642649
>stream music and movies to any device
NAS, any router with USB connector
>retro games
Do you specifically need underpowered arm hardware to run emulators? A PC can into PS2/Xbox emulation at stable framerates, this piece of shit barely runs Doom.
>PieHole/VPN
(openwrt) router with privoxy, vps with privoxy, any fucking computer with privoxy, literally the same, or just fucking copy paste domains to your hosts files, moron, or install ublock on your browser

>>58642649
A raspberry pi wouldn't be suitable for such a task since it is going to be a poor transcoder. Maybe if you transcode all your video ahead of time, but that's just extra hassle for no good reason.

>>58642710
> Use routers
They are under-powered and overpriced POS. A RPI will be much better than a router.

>Use desktop to run emulators
Not an ideal living room solution. Especially since they cost at minimum $75 more new and use more power.

It has so many uses. I use it just for tinkering with various servers and network services. Nginx, SSH, DNS, so forth.

>>58642734
i do small staging servers with mine and play around with saltstack. just a learning tool really, but quite enjoyable.

>>58642710
No shit a PC can do all that. The whole point is small form factor, cheap price and ultra low power consumption.
A Pi can do all that too, and you don't need to own a VPS or NAS for it. But yeah, I don't understand the "retro" games kink, must be a americuck fetish for old nintendo stuff

>>58642378
i guess you could use it for prototyping for electronic gadgets

i don't have one though, i don't have a use for it

>>58642732
You still need a router to connect pi to your network, instead of buying two pieces of shit, save a bit more for something decent as one device.

>>58642378
Mine hosts a website, syslog server, pi-hole DNS and more

>>58642759
Pi can pull double duty. It has 4 cores and 1gb of ram. Routers less than $100 have at max 128 mb of ram and that is a bit of a stretch.

>>58642378
I use one for emergency SSH access. It uses ~5w so it's no problem leaving it on. I use my rpi3 for game system emulation, it works pretty well for anything before the N64. I have a rpi2 that I've been meaning to mess with, built part of a home automation application in Java that I'll run on it eventually.

>>58642378
You can use it for any small thing you want running 24/7 without having to worry about power draw.
Deluge daemon
NZB-related stuff
etc.

>>58642775
>1gb of ram
My thinkpad has 16x that

>>58642775
>1gb of ram
My old thinkpad has quadruple of that and a battery.

It's nothing more than a meme machine, meme machine, it's a motherfucking machine. Meme machine, meme machine, without memes it will die.

>Chromebook
>Linux
YAAAAAAAAAS QUEEN

Currently using mine to host a shitty webserver,

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Guys, what's your FAVORITE cheap-ish single board computer that has at least one SATA port and a good ethernet interface?

>>58643204
orange pi

An AWS micro instance costs about $10 / month. A raspi server is about as powerful, costs about three months of AWS, and works even when the internet is down.

You use them to run computing tasks that don't take much juice or that you want to leave always on, and if you can't think of any of these you're probably better off on /v/.

I do as >>58642649 says and have a pi2 + hdd running plex (want to swap to kodi) and a homebrew deluge / RSS bot that downloads anime. Also planning on running hydrus and cozy cloud eventually.

>>58643222
What's the purpose of all these bloated meme ""apps"" like kodi or plex when you can simply set up a nas or ftp?

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>>58643218
Looks pretty slick, thanks for the suggestion

>>58643263
Plex and Kodi basically give you your own personal netflix with a TV-fremote riendly UI, auto tagging, and playback syncronization. I can pause a show on the living room TV and resume it where it left off in the bedroom TV or on my phone.
My PIs don't actually store much files aside from the software they run, which is the plex clients / a server and deluge with an RSS feed. The actual storage is on my synology.

>>58642555
it's a microcontroller that's powerful enough to have some actual brains about what it's doing, so image processing tasks and whatnot
the other nice bit is that you can do all of your development on the device itself

it sucks as a desktop computer though, unless you run like the most barebones software or only use the terminal (that's mostly because of actual bloat that wouldn't be an issue on an ordinary PC made within the last ten years, but on something as slow as the Pi, which resembles a computer from 2000 at best in terms of performance, you're not going to be happy)

>>58642749
the retro gaming thing is just a stupid "DIY" project that gets promoted to sell the things (read: download sd image, load with roms, put into pi, plug into tv, there's nothing you really have to do other than maybe get a case and controllers)
it's kind of ass for emulation and I can use my phone (even have a little controller clip for it) or laptop (massively better performance and more robust emulators)

>>58642378
This thing runs like $65 all in, while the niggerest of desktops would cost ~100

Granted, the desktop will still have far more expandability, outperform it by a factor of at least two, etc

>>58643359
>it sucks as a desktop computer though, unless you run like the most barebones software or only use the terminal
>the Pi, which resembles a computer from 2000 at best in terms of performance
you're an idiot

>>58642447
also if you want something electronic/ internet/wifi enabled but don't want to dedicate a full computer to it.

I use mine as a brown noise generator with optical digital output for maximum quality static noise.

>>58643497
do 3.5'' drives need some kind of special sata port?

>>58643497
I dare-say the SATA port doesn't really care about the physical dimensions of your drive.

>>58642378
I'm using some for my senior design project at school. They're great with sensors and other stuff hooked up to them.

>>58642447
>a competitor
Try a few dozens

>>58643263
I started off downloading all my files to PC, watching them, then dumping them off on my external HDD when I was done.

Turns out it's more convenient to have the drive on the net somewhere, so I learned to stream with VLC and used that for a while.

Then I wanted a better interface than the default apache "Index Of", so I wrote a kinda minimal web app that would list things with links that would auto open VLC.

Then I wanted it to look nice, so I wrote a script that would grab TVDB images and put together a webpage for the collections.

At this point I realized that I was approaching plex and that it would be far more efficient to just use the thing that's already written than to cobble it together on my own.

TLDR it's basically got all the features I want.

>>58642627
underrated post

>>58642378
It's a solution in search of a problem.

>>58643548
do you actually watch movies more than once though? Why keep the files after you watch them? Not to mention everything's available so easily on the internet as torrents you can stream, why store it locally?

>>58642378
amazing set top box or emulator that you can make to do anything

>>58642378
Because I'm poor at and pis have a lot of online documentation.

>>58642748
just get a DO droplet

>>58643608
If you are poor, you buy a used thinkpad and get a better job with it.

>>58643569
not the person you replied to, but lately finding old stuff has been harder than it used to be (probably since I can't be arsed to get into a private tracker).
So I just hoard anything I think I might be interested in in the future. I also archive my favorite youtube channels, soundcloud artists, etc in case they get taken down or jontron deletes yet another video.

>>58642607

There are no states where setting booby traps on your property for any purpose is considered anything but highly illegal. You can use lethal force on burglars in most, if not all states, but if you set traps for them then you are royally fucked if someone gets caught in one, despite the circumstances of how they came to get caught in it. Not only will you face criminal charges, but you will likely be held civilly liable as well. God help you if a cop, firefighter, paramedic, census taker, postal courier, etc. gets caught in a trap you've set to deter burglars.

>>58642423
>when /g/ and /pol/ poured their combined autism into a single project

webcamera spying

>>58642378
>Hook up powered USB hub
>Get a bunch of portable HDDs
>Cheap and efficient Server

I use my Pi 3 for media watching(Kodi)

>>58643317
Not him, but the official images for this board suck balls.
Use https://www.armbian.com/ instead.

Also since they're using chink CPUs that are likely riddled with backdoors and shit, please don't expose them to the internet.

Otherwise it's a cool board.

Its nice for embedded development and wireless debugging. For example, on my team's FSAE Electric car, we ssh into it to see/log the CAN bus data in real time. Cheaper than any commercial CAN interface and nicer to use. The only fundamentally shitty thing about it is that it uses an SD card for storage. I can almost guarantee that if it had higher throughput storage, it would not be slow at all. People attribute the Pi's bad desktop performance to some processing deficiency, when in fact it's more or less equivalent to a modern smartphone.

But you'd be a fool to use it as a desktop. It's a shit PC but a brilliant way to integrate Linux into an otherwise microcontroller-based system.

>>58643317
>>58644324
I've bought one.

The official distros suck dick. Official support from the Devs is dead, absolutely dead. Only Armbian has any support left and I'm not sure how much longer they're going to focus on the H3 or even give support.

And a backdoor has been discovered but it's easily fixable.

Honestly, if I was going to buy a board today for running an OS, I'd probably buy an odroid. If you want to make use of the GPIO pins then Orange Pi will be good.

>>58643554
How so? It's still an idea which would violate at least 2 different US laws if implemented.

>>58642710
>NAS, Routers with USB
You realize the Pi can do that too, right? And for cheaper than a lot of off the shelf systems?

>>58643341
>TV
fuck off to >>>/tv/ normie reeee

>>58644392
see if you can get a faster SD card, i have a really fast one for my DSLR

The company I work for uses them to power 4000+ vending machines. If that wasn't bad enough some asshole decided to base them all on arch

>>58642378
raspberry pi is an sjw company, plus it's a shitty board buy a superior alternative.

>>58642378
>Why do so many people want tiny computers?
Low power consumption and low heat output = neat server for low demand applications.
But I don't use Raspberry Pis, I use actual x86 embedded processors like the AMD APUs on my APU2d4 as an external-traffic only IDS. Hook a direct rechargeable battery pack to it and you've got the best bang-for-your-buck server with a UPS for under $300.

You can make so much shit out of these little fuckers, A handhold emulator that plays NES games and shit, A proxy/router (I think) You can build a robot out of one, so much stuff.

I wanted to give a commodore 64 to my gf because she grew up with that, but those things are expensive, not to mention the tapes.

So I just tossed retropie on one, bought a 3d printed case that looks like a commodore and installed all her favourite games.

Way easier and more convenient than getting the real thing

>>58642378
Built a home automation system with mine. Have it set up to turn on my coffee pot at certain times and enable my battery bank if the power goes out right now. But working on more shit later on. Only reason I bought one was to turn it into a Steam streaming device, then discovered Jasper and had to try it.

>>58644751
raspberry pi foundation supports the education of programming, computing and electronics for ALL people regardless of age, sex or race.

how this this a bad thing to anyone who isn't a fuckwit?

>>58644789
This.

For people that actually HAVE a use for a dedicated server (mail, vpn, nas, web hosting, dns, etc) and you don't need something powerful, this can be left on all the time and costs basically nothing to run.
You don't need to host these sorts of things that demand 24/7 uptime on your PC and keep it on all the time, reducing longevity and increasing running costs.

>>58642423
this is one of the better posts ive seen on /g/

>>58644399
>And a backdoor has been discovered but it's easily fixable.
Got a source for that?

I think in general what people wanted is remote access to their devices or a more easy way to replicate microcontroller programming.

Right now it seems wasteful to throw a raspberry pi into something. Get an ESP-12.
It's well suited for most projects and is very easy to work with.
For non-network enabled projects getting an arduino or ATMEGA programmer makes more sense.
>>58643875
You seem like a trustworthy legal expert. Completely unrelated to this, are there any laws against a device that actuates the trigger of a gun while it's under direct human control? Similar to tracking points scope.

>>58643074
It's a lot bigger and it draws more power.

>>58644941
>how this this a bad thing to anyone

they were using the sjw twitter block bot and ended up ignoring their customers on twitter because of wrongthink.

give them your money if you want.

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>>58642710
>Xbox emulation

>>58642378
I'll start caring once they offer models with with slots for upgrading the RAM

>>58644941
because only white and asian men are capable of being programmers. there's a reason why all the women in tech are fucking trannies m8

>>58645448
Are you literally fucking retarded?

>>58645476
it's 5am where I am, cut me some fucking slat cunt

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>>58645482
*slack

>>58642710
Pretty sure this can run PS1 and PSP games, and emulate all other devices made before 2000. As for do you specifically need this, not anymore since android phones exist. Sure, you can tinker with an rPi or a similar device and make it a portable emulator, but I believe you can just root your android phone, wipe everything that could run in background and only install the emulators and you'll probably get a better battery life and have an even more compact device. Hell, you could get an Oukitel K10000 and play games 24h straight.

>>58645448
what's the point

get some other thing if you need upgradable ram

Dust collection.

Well, okay... the latest one is pretty good for Kodi, but if you want a better STB the FireTV is faster and supports Netflix etc

I have one running a backup server because it was a cheap way to do it, but it tends to time out on large transfers and only has 100mbps network so the first backup takes like 2 days - I should get something better for it, really.

Decent emulators but imperfect and you can do better, unless you're specifically creating one of these Nu Amigas in the new case moulds or whatever.

I'd say the best applications are professional where you only need something basic and the accountants hate spending money - kiosks in shops, digital signage, basic computing for charities etc. Cheap to buy, cheap to run at such a low power. And of course, cheap tinkering for prototyping projects as hobbies or in schools.
Or if you want something low energy 24/7 at home and existing always-on hardware doesn't do it well (if it's a better VPN etc)

The biggest point is that it's cheap. Whenever I see "soandso has unveiled a Raspberry Pi KILLER!" I roll my eyes as it's always followed by "it's a bit more expensive at £69, but..."
NO YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT. They always do this, and the Pi always remains very much alive.

>>58645372
>le "one person running their account made an SJW tweet therefore boycott them" meme
Honestly who cares, everyone's allowed one mistake. They're not the only ones who fell for that crap.

>>58645372
>sjw twitter block bot
The fuck does this even mean?

It doesn't surprise me when /v/ or /pol/ type like fucktards but this is /g/, grow up and stop using buzzwords.

>>58644434
Who cares he's shooting niggers.

>>58642378
i use mine as a cheap fm pirate radio station.

I use mine as a paperweight.

>>58645551
>but if you want a better STB the FireTV is faster

just hopping in but the firetv is slow as balls running kodi, it's comparable to original rpi/rpi zero

>>58645711
i think someone needs to go back to plebbit

I think my first OrangePi PC just died.

It doesn't want to print any output past the 6 second mark when booting, it just stops.
Putting the microSD into another OrangePi PC boots fine.

>>58642423
This project is now officially called the Raspberry Nigger.
I'll start on a logo, somebody buy the hardware

>>58645858
I don't know if you mean the stick, but I meant the brick. It's quite a bit faster than even the Pi 3 at running it.
Source: I literally compared them a week ago.

>>58642378
They are neat cheapo "throwable" computers. I have one running homebridge (a hub for Home Kit) and shairport (audio Airplay), the other one acts as a thermostat.

I'm using mine for pi-hole mainly. I'm going to set it up as a NAS this weekend though. I'm assuming pi-hole will still work/the SD card can still be accessible through SSH right?

>>58645977
And now it is booting again.

It seems that what fixed it was ejecting the microSD and then reinserting it WHILE the OrangePi was powered, then power cycling it.

I hate things that make no sense.

>>58646686
Seems like the microSD card connector is kinda borked, somehow. If I eject the card then it won't boot again until I insert and eject a bunch of times.
Kinda a pain in the ass, will try and do everything to it over SSH now.

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>>58645987
>Wants others to buy shit for you
Very nigger of you.

>>58644884
Didn't know, Terry was a crossdresser.

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>>58642378
>Main question: Why do so many people want tiny computers? Just for fun? I figure you can't all be building magic mirrors and lego robots.

If you are directing the question towards those who buy one and just stores it away in the drawer.

I'm guessing that they like the idea that it could do "cool stuff", but when they start a project they become demotivated when they see the necessary research and effort involved to finish it.

It's great for learning programming, since you can code something that gives you a feedback in real life. Making a LED glow is as simple as a hello world code, but it is much more immersive.

But programming is not for everyone, so that can be another reason for people to buy one and just hide it away in a drawer.

I have one purely for emulation, and have it fitted inside an arcade stick, works great and very portable, plus dem Sanwa buttons.

Other than that I wouldn't bother, bit of a gimmick unless you're one of these kids that likes creating silly things in their spare time.

Using one now for pi-hole. Looking to move my VM for OpenVPN to a pi and see how that works.

I don't get all the hate. It's not perfect or super fast but it's a great tool if you have a project in mind. It's not like you are forced to ever use or need one.

>>58645727
This. Especially now God King Trump, The first of his name is in power. This will be legal in no time!

>>58642378
I plan to buy one to stream my desktop pc games with Moonlight over the internet to the hotel room tv so I can play what I want when I'm travelling at work. Anyone tried this?

>>58645727
>>58651471
>lel racism
>>>/pol/

>>58642423
And how do I do this?

>>58651556
i think it would be laggy and you might not have a fast and reliable internet connection at the hotel and the rasp pi is pretty weak even just for streaming video

if you get a decently powerful laptop you could do decent gaming on that or maybe you can carry a small format desktop gaming pc like this:
https://hardforum.com/threads/inverse-a-highly-versatile-steam-box-design.1851126/

>>58649008
What?

>>58652160
Laggy? I've only heard positive stories about streaming with Moonlight with a Rasp 2 and 3. But yeah, the internet connection may suck, but I have a 250/50 connection at home and endless 4G data on my phone and I'm mostly in major cities with good coverage.

But I would love to hear peoples opinion on how smooth the streaming between desktop and Rasp Pi in general with moonlight.

>>58652773
you'll have some amount of latency with the absolute theoretical minimum being the time it takes for light to travel back and forth to your home and it'll be more than that in practice. online games need a ton of lag compensation to deal with this latency. a 4G connection will also have more inconsistent latency than a wired broadband connection and you might get huge 200+ ms lag spikes where the game becomes completely unresponsive at times. it's totally unplayable at least for fast-paced games.

>>58652907
I'll settle with Endless Legend and Divinity then.

>>58642378
bump

>>58642378
it just some popularity cause of its silly name nothing more

Whats the most powerful alternative to the Raspberry Pi?

I've seen Odroid and Cubieboard have about 2.0 ghz Octa-core ARM cpu's, but the more I look the more alternatives I find.

>>58642378
I work at an engineering company and they buy these things like candy. Why reconfigure a testing setup when you can leave it in place and buy another PI. We use em for everything

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>>58642423
KEK'D

>>58643690
That's clever, how do you go about archiving youtube channels?

>>58651689
fuck off back to plebbit nigger

>>58642378
I just buy thin clients off epay at twice the hardware and space for the same price. new thin clients are dual core with 4gb of ram if you want a light linux computer to fuck around on.

>>58645028
he's not a legal expert that's common sense. anyone who's investigated
>muh freedums
knows you can't set booby traps.
like he said, you set up your shotgun to point at the door and blast a cop, you'll never even see a jury.

https://piratebox.cc/raspberry_pi

>>58655343
youtube-dl

>>58654977
Engineering is a meme. No one cares about trains anymore.

I used my first gen model B and a webcam to create a motion triggered bird cam that synches all pictures and video to a network drive. I guess it could easily be adopted to a security cam or hooked up to a doorbell to serve as a door camera.

>>58642497
isn't the pi opened up now too?

>>58642423
you'd use an arduino for something like this. you could do 90% of RPI projects with an arduino, just 5000 times as efficient.

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>>58642970
cool

>>58642423
Doing God's work helping #BlackLivesMatter, anon. :'^)

Keep up the good work!

>>58642378
i use one for syslogs and monitoring at home since hooking it up to a 15$ power pack means my $20 syslog server also has a UPS

supeh cheap

>>58642378
personal web host (gitlab)? That's what mine is doing.

>>58642378
Here's an example. A few friends from collage and me wanted to start doing amateur astronomy, so we got into meteor detection. We quickly realized that none could sit in front of the screen all day, 7 days a weak during a meteor shower and manually record data. We bought a 15$ raspberry pi, programmed it and it does the work for us .

It's a simple and dirt cheap mixture of a computer and microcontroler. Anyone with basic linux skills can program it. Some people use it to make their life easier, some use as I toy. Most for both

>>58643558
underrated post

>>58642818
What did you automate?

>>58642378

They are easy to hide in house plants at corporate offices so you can capture traffic later when you get the ssl keys

>>58644399
What makes you think there was only one backdoor? What was the backdoor about and how did you fix it?

Whats your opinion on banana pi?

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PirateBox

PirateBox is a DIY anonymous offline file-sharing and communications system built with free software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware.

I just use mine as a Kodi box. Wireless mini keyboard & track pad = :)

>>58646529
Any point in using a pihole instead a modified hosts on PC? I'm not sure it'd be faster with pi

>>58650573
What's the benefits of a pihole?

>>58658688
Could you elaborate on the program?

>>58642378
beats me the fuckers seem to breed like rabbits tho
I just spent another $35 at tindie for a board I'll probably never go beyond the hello world stage

the stupid media center thing is a load of crap, give me a windows kangaroo pc for $99
the linux thing is such a crapshoot trying to stream on random websites

>>58642378
Cluster, domotics, portable hacking machin, radio hacker

It's great for 24/7 tunnels, running a DNScrypt resolver and DNS caching, DHCP and SMTP.

>>58644941
No one cares who you are weirdo.

>>58642378
I use one as a webserver and tor relay, my friend uses his to control shit in his house and another one as a media center.

>>58642710
>NAS
Those cost a lot compared to a pi + cheap 3.5" external setup
>any router with USB connector
When you already have a router that you don't intend to replace soon, it's cheaper to buy a pi than buying a new router with a usb port. Also you can remotely start torrenting on your pi, while you probably can't do that with just a router.
>openwrt
Again, not all people have a supported router (I checked mine and it was not in the list of hardware).
>any fucking computer with privoxy
Any old computer you have lying around will consume a fuckton of electricity compared to a pi, and also produce a lot of noise, very inconvenient solution.

>retro games
Okay that one is legit bullshit.

>>58656669
Fucking shit America hypocrisy
If you want to give me my freedom give me all of it not a part of it
RREEEEEEEEEEE

Anybody running IRC bouncers on their Pis?

>>58642775
>Pi can pull double duty.
>100Mbit Ethernet
how about no

>>58663245
Orangepi Pc 2

>>58663300
sure, you can buy a gbit switch separately though.

>>58663339
I honestly don't understand your remark

A switch is not a router, so it couldn't replace a pi doing it.
If you meant that you would need a Gbit switch to get the full potential of a Gbit NIC, then a Rpi with 100Mbit would still suffice anyway

>>58663398
>If you meant that you would need a Gbit switch to get the full potential of a Gbit NIC, then a Rpi with 100Mbit would still suffice anyway

Not if you use the Rpi as router and you have faster then 100Mbit internet.

How could you replace a Gbit router with a Gbit wan port when you have Gbit internet with a pi variant? You get a pi variant with a Gbit ethernet port + a Gbit switch, that's how.

>>58642406
I have one hooked to my TV and use it to torrent and watch movies.

>>58643875
paintball is far from lethal

>>58643969
/k/ suggested a rocket launcher

>>58659264
For people with mobile devices that don't really want to jailbreak/root them it is a viable alternative.

>>58642732
The cost part is true but one can make a way more powerful desktop solution that draws 30W max

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>>58642378
kali linux penetration

>>58642732

Idea is to use the desktop that YOU ALREADY HAVE to play emulated games. You don't need to buy an additional piece of equipment.

>>5865904
Your mother is and underrated whore.

>>58642378
I have two of them. One runs as Unifi-controller and Traccar server, the second runs my mame cabinet.

>>58642423
Fucking perfect

>>58642378
I mainly use it as a really low voltage dhcp/DNS server and SSH tunneling from work,
the silent factor is great

Disliking a rasberry pi because it is useless is really just not habing a use for it

>>58642378
it's cheap, nig nog.

It's an entire computer, but small and cheap. You can do pretty much anything with it.

>>58643218
>>58643317
don't fall for it.
i bought one.
it's shit.
>installed armbian
no software, no hardware acceleration.

>installed android
still stuck at 4.4, had to download a custom rom for some chink tv box for it to work acceptably. gpu is pretty slow, cpu tends to throttle from overheat. i had a small heatsink.

if you don't need gpio and only want kodi or android i suggest getting a tv box with amlogic chipset.

best choice is an intel atom x86 board. now you can do actually do shit.

I want a raspberry pi, is there anyone here that would send me one?

>>58664591
Try arguing that in court and see how far it gets you.

>>58642378
The company I'm working for uses one for rapid prototyping

>>58668632
Assault or battery charges rather than manslaughter