Just got myself a Raspberry Pi 3. It's perfectly usable

Because utilities are included in my rent

>perfectly usable
I'm on a cloudbook and I'd call it "just about usable" as a browser. I wouldn't be able to tolerate a Pi.

Enjoy you Broadcom blobs with sjw cucks.

>>61856544
The raspberry pi is not a "desktop browser"

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>>61856544
I use a laptop as my only PC, would like to swap it for something like that if I could get a decent monitor for cheap.

>>61856544

Because I have a far superior Asus Tinker Board if I want to do that shit.

Why in the fuck would I want to pay money to a cucked company like Pi anyway?

>>61856590
yes, it's a single board computer

>>61856544
It's woefully underpowered for any kind of serious work, as you're probably aware. Graphics are not the strong point of the raspberry pi.

But it does have a QUAD CORE processor that operates at a clockrate of 1.2 GIGAHERTZ! It has an entire GIGABYTE of RAM. And here's the kicker, it only costs $30 and it only consumes 2.5W! That was crazy to imagine even just 10 years ago.

I use my raspberry pis for a lot of things. IRC bouncers, TV tuner to IPTV bridges, all sorts of amateur radio and software defined radio hijinks.

The best advice I can give is this: Use f2fs instead of ext4 for your SD card, or even better, netboot to a rootfs on NFS or ISCSI. Poor disk io is, more than anything else, what makes the pi feel slow.

>ARM
>not AMD's R3s
Nah, it may have 4 cores but you need like 20 to match the performance of an R3 1200

better waste watts than waste your time doing jackshit

but wait since you're time is worthless your not actually wasting anything, nevermind

>>61856544
You're a fucking dumbass, this piece of shit is nothing but a slow ass infuriating chunk of diahrea.
>T. Someone that is forced to use it as my PC

People use these for other things than home automation and various projects involving sensors, etc?

Because I would never use mine as a desktop. THAT's a waste in my eyes.

>>61856544
Botnet

I have an i7-6700HQ laptop. Not an M, an actual desktop i7. My Pi3 is for RetroPie.

>>61860594
>6700HQ
>an actual desktop i7

smuganimegirl.jpg

Like everyone else, give it a couple of months and OP's Raspberry Pi will be chucked into some drawer and forgotten about.

>>61862392
Agreed, he should have gotten an Odroid C2 with a Hifi shield.

>>61862392
This guy knows

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>>61860594
>i7-6700HQ

it's still a 45w gimped down version. Performance is gonna be as good as a real i5 at best

What should I put on my Pi to allow it to share media files over my network?
Not interested in a GUI, just want it to be a bare bones media server.

>>61864447
Minibian.

It truly is gloriously minimal.

>>61856566
Please remain in your containment board /pol/tard.

I mostly browse on my phone, no reason to use a rpi.

>>61864467
Thank! I'll take a look.

>>61864467
minibian is pretty sweet

how is diet pi? A guy with a swiss accent recommended it and so I'm curious.

>>61864502
>free software
>/pol/
Reddit sats they miss you

What's the latest RISC-OS like?

>>61856544
Cause I'm a gamer with actual money.

>>61864824
>Cause I'm a gamer

AAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA

>>61864840
>with actual money
kekekekekekekekek

>>61856544
>It's perfectly usable as a Desktop browser.
If you dont mind lag as soon as there's a web video.

That's not what a pi is for.

>>61865043
>can't play web videos

That's not a bug, that's a feature.

These SBCs are many times more powerful that what used to serve as a fully featured desktop. It's the software that's fault, not the hardware.

>>61856544
Can I open 80 chrome tabs on a pi without lag or crashing?

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>>61865043

There's actually no excuse for lag hardware-wise. It's the same shitty hardware they put in tablets and there it's fine

Linux is a clusterfuck of poor GUI and optimal hardware utilization

>>61856544
>why wasting watts
i dunno my t540p with i7-4700MQ is quite comfy with the modded "orginal" touchpad
I have a pi zero but i run it as a weberver

>>61865186
>It's the same shitty hardware they put in tablets and there it's fine
No it's not, most tablets are borderline unusable pieces of shit.
Browsing the Internet on a Pi sounds like hell. The internet is an infinitely dense void of redundant Javascript frameworks that unfortunately requires better hardware to cope with.

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>>61865274
>The internet is an infinitely dense void of redundant Javascript frameworks

A typical website is a bunch of colourful elements in a table with input boxes and buttons

Don't kid yourself. There is no fucking excuse

>>61865274
Which is why you stay away from the web and use the many other protocols for the internet.

>>61865330
>A typical website is a bunch of colourful elements in a table with input boxes and buttons
Oh, how I wish that were still true. Welcome to the autism.js future.
>Don't kid yourself. There is no fucking excuse
I'll pretend your argument makes sense for the sake of a rebuttal and point out that most tablets are also powered by the Linux kernel, which is the performance critical part.
If GNU/Linux runs like shit on your machine, it's likely not because of the distro itself;.I have a relatively modern setup and my hardware works just fine. It's because the hardware was manufactured by retards that don't release specifications. This makes it virtually impossible to implement proper device drivers for platforms the manufacturer doesn't care about, and is rapidly becoming a rare practice because it doesn't actually benefit the producer.

>>61865393
gopher + usenet = <3

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>>61865449
The point I'm making comes down to Wirth's law

You can throw teraflops into a processor, but the user only cares about the end-point smoothness, which is determined by how well the software can use the hardware.

Never wondered how a GUI from 20 years ago could run smoothly on a 486?

>>61865509
>the user only cares about the end-point smoothness, which is determined by how well the software can use the hardware.
Hardware manufacturers used to jump through hoops to prevent volunteers and third party companies from writing drivers for other platforms, because middle managers don't know how computers work. That is not the fault of said platforms. I can guarantee you that any tablet that isn't painful to use is sporting an SoC that would blow an RPi out of the water several times over, the RPi is cheap for a reason.

Besides, normies can't care that much about a smooth user experience if they use Netflix. :^)

>>61865507
It is pretty comfy, isn't it?

Though I'd say to add some BBS and Shelling as well. SDF is the best.

>>61862392
After having one of the first batch unused in my drawer for years, I finally made it a dedicated WOL box

I want to buy an RPi3 for my mother so she can browse YouTube via HDMI connection and set-up a DLNA server so she can watch TV series in the kitchen via Wi-Fi. Will it handle those things with no issue?

>>61856544
It's proprietary garbage. And I like not depending on a shitty $20 sdcard as my main drive.

>>61865124
>These SBCs are many times more powerful that what used to serve as a fully featured desktop. It's the software that's fault, not the hardware.
Yes, the web is bloated today. Not really a problem unless you're trying to use a $30 SBC as a desktop or trying to use a 10+ yo PC.

Not a feature, it's a simple budget constraint.

>>61865186
Sure, it'd be better with android. Those browsers are better optimized and always have decent hardware acceleration for video, which the pi3 doesn't seem to have working properly in the browser. But even tablets usually have slightly higher clocked CPUs and more importantly significantly better graphics. Even then, cheap tablets are laggy and terrible.

>>61856590
according to OP it's perfectly usable as one, probably the first board with a SoC that can exist as both hardware and software, not to mention a fully standards-compliant web browser.

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my brothers just got me a zero-w for my birthday - most cool

>>61856544
Please let us know your software setup.

OS / Distro?
Desktop Environment / Window Manager?
Web Browser?

>>61856566
Pretty sure the rPi has one of, if not the, most open ARM CPU and GPU

ARM CPUs have the benefit of having no CPU microcode

Is a pj good enough to be a htpc?
I would need it to be capable of video playback, torrenting, and some light web browsing (not at the same time).

Hey guys,

I have Finlux 72f100 tv here. I have raspberry pi here. I tried to connect raspberry pi (model 2b) by soldering rca cable to the pi (to tv out and ground) and connecting rca plug.

There is no video on the tv. I can't change tv setting because no remote. How fucked am I?

>>61869368
https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi#Raspberry_Pi_issues

>>61856564
what OS are you running?

>>61856590
you are wrong.

>>61857396
>Asus Tinker Board
>the gigabit ethernet delivers a full 950Mbit/s throughput

fucking nice. thanks for making me aware of that device anon. Wish they would make one with either SATA or USB3 though, to take advantage of that ethernet bandwidth for use as a file server

>>61858713
>Use f2fs instead of ext4 for your SD card
does linux have any issue booting off f2fs?

>>61858800
yea, but, the ARM has lower power usage.

also, some times people want to explicitly avoid x86 for certain reasons

>>61869751
I doubt the Linux could not boot from f2fs, my 37 year old Galaxy nexus uses f2fs. It's the bootloader that can or can not boot from f2fs

>>61864447
nfs if your main PC is Linux
samba if your main PC is Windows

lol, desktop.

I use mine for automatic terrarium control and monitor.

>>61864467
holy shit awesome. Anything like this for older rPi models?

>>61856544
I'm still using my pair of RPi2's, one for a server, and the other on a certain floor of my apt complex w/ camera for blackmail and extortion purposes later on in the year. No interest in the 3. I do think that the device is a bit over-rated even if it is a wonderful power saver on my elec bill.

>>61865274
>>61865186
>>61865043
my old ass rPi with like 256MB RAM and a single 700MHz CPU plays 1080p video flawlessly.

>>61865393
>>61865274
>not specifically using the rPi to find and test efficiently developed websites

seriously fuck off

>>61866072
>It's proprietary garbage.
name a more open ARM board

>I like not depending on a shitty $20 sdcard as my main drive.
so make a copy of that SD card.
the fact that they use SD cards as the main drive is actually one of the best thing about the rPi, for this reason

>>61870128
>blackmail and extortion
story? or at least what specifically are you recording that can be used for this purpose?

>>61869540
>waaaah, 2mb of non free software

OP here, disregard that opinion. YouTube doesn't play nicely.

What single board computer does a reasonable job? Tinker Board? ODroid?

>>61856544
you should get your self a gun to suck on

>>61859120
That's arduino.
I use my pi as a high end NAS

>>61870251
>I use my pi as a high end NAS
>use my pi as high end NAS
>my pi as high end NAS
>pi
>high end NAS
kys

>>61870269
It has the features of a good NAS

>>61870239
did you try streaming the video with vlc?

on my laptop, youtube in even 360p causes it to overheat. but then if i stream the same video in vlc or smplayer i can play 720p with minimal cpu usage

>>61856544
shove it up your ass

>>61870365
not hardware-wise

the ethernet is only 10/100
the disk interface is only USB-2

a high end NAS would have a minimum of gigabit ethernet for networking and SATA or at least USB-3 for disk access

>not browsing the web on a laptop and charging it at a public place

Zero electricity cost

>>61870431
That is true, but it is still good enough.
However the software part(and the price) makes it up tenfold.

>>61870497
>Not charging your laptop with an electric bike
Do you even want to get fit?

>>61870531
>build a gym next to your house
>generate electricity from bikes/treadmills
>never pay a power bill again

Its foolproof

>>61870119
If it's not on the Minibian site, I would guess no.

>>61870510
you can get cheap ARM boards that have gigabit ethernet and either SATA or USB-3

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>>61870119
should work fine with older pis as is - does for all my older ones at any rate

>>61870580
right but are there any distros like minibian that arent minibian?

>>61870672
Name 3

>>61870684
diet-pi

>>61869595
Usb 2.0 @ 480Mbps should suffice for most file server purposes.
If you're downloading/uploading files remotely, it seems unlikely that you would have more than a 100Mbps connection most of the time.

>>61870393
The audio would play but just black screen, no video

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mine is set up as a seedbox/media server, i wouldn't want to use it as a daily driver though

>>61856553
how can this be profitable?

>>61870828
by charging Jewish amounts of rent

Say you would have access to a wifi AP, a raspberry pi zero w running headless would pull about 160mws. Connect that to a 10 000 Mah power bank and drop it in a waterproof ziplock bag in the bushes, you would have about 60 hours of remote access. Without having to sit in your car with an obvious antenna pointing out for better reception.

>>61870690

ODROID-XU4
Banana Pi (many different models)
OLinuXino A20
Orange Pi (many different models)
pcDuino3Nano

>>61871426
#REKT

>>61870767
>Usb 2.0 @ 480Mbps should suffice for most file server purposes.
well not for me. I have a file server now, and I routinely max out the Gigabit Ethernet connection (100MB/s +). USB2 is limited to about 35MB/s

>If you're downloading/uploading files remotely
I dont do that

>>61870996
And how do I connect to the pi?

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Should have bought this instead OP
>>61862367
He probably just meant an actual i7 (4c/8t) since Intel likes to jew people out of a proper i7.

What happened to that Intel SBC? Did it ever hit production?

>>61869595
hey anon look at this one !
usb 3.0 (and you can buy from hardkernel usb 3.0 to sata adapter )
http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G143452239825&tab_idx=1

>>61871597
https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=27466&sid=7eb5742aeee920314a517e5c9e433787

>>61871597
yep, thats the one i most likely will be getting. It is one of the few that has *two* USB3 ports, in addition to a Gigabit Ethernet port.

So, you can run a RAID-1 over USB3! To top it off, its cheap!

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>>61864824

>>61869751
No, not at all. Just be sure that you have things configured correctly, like an accurate entry in your fstab and the right kernel cmdline.

>>61869861
This is correct. The raspberry pi bootloader does not have the ability to read a f2fs partition, but it can read a FAT32 partition-- your boot partition, which contains the kernel executable, which, when executed, has the ability to read f2fs partitions and get everything going.

>>61871734

i want to use this one as my low power pc for web browsing and video playback because rpi3 is not powerfull enough

and for main machine i am interested in intel nuc with i7 6 gen QH

i am fan of compact computers :D

>>61872038
>i am fan of compact computers :D
me too. I want to do a bunch of gaming on one. Most ARM GPUs are capable of really decent 3D performance.

>>61871514
The internet? After you connect it to the AP?

>>61856544
I'm very close to do that actually. I'll get a couple new tiny computers to escape the botnet and do illegal shit.

I also plan on stripping an old laptop from internals and putting a bunch of pi3s inside instead.

>>61872286
Are you a child?

>>61872100

emulators work fine on rpi3 (nes snes gba gbc psp) but i never tried anything more demanding than that like xonotic

>>61872534
>xonotic
yea stuff like xonotic works fine. just look at the 3D games available for smartphones and tablets

They typically use OpenGL-ES

>>61872403
Do you really want to leave your privacy to an overly complex MB with a broken architecture, and a CPU with opaque binary blobs everywhere?

What's childish about getting things right?

>>61872403
he is überpro, he will create custom communication gpio bus and he will run gentoo optimised for cluster computing

>>61864758
Free software is volkish

>>61872247
>AP owner has left port 22 blocked, as per most default AP settings

Curses, foiled again

>>61870996
There are cheaper alternatives, like that chink wifi router the size of an USB drive that runs openwrt. Maybe an ESP8266 could do that too.

>>61870828
The people who don't use many utilities subsidize those who do.

>>61856544
>Why are you wasting all those watts on a desktop?

Electricity here costs $0.12 per Kw/H.
I run my computer for ~12 hours a day, average, and it probably consumes ~300W since I'm not gayming or even using it all the time.

That equals ~1,314 Kw/H a year to run my PC, or $157. A RPi consumes a nominal 2.4W, which works out to $1.05 a year.
The $156 over the course of a year is not worth the hassle and restriction of using an RPi as my main computer.

>buy pi zero
>anything I want to try requires more shit or the zero can't handle it

fucking garbage

>>61856544
I got one but use it as a TCP/IP server (sockets, not webshit), I wrote it in C#, running on Arch.

>>61872779
It must be incredibly hard to change the port in the sshd config on your own pi...

>>61872824
A raspberry pi zero w goes for 11 euro's, that's plenty cheap and you could use it for a ton of other stuff.

>>61873359
>It must be incredibly hard to change the port in the sshd config on your own pi...
Great, let me know how that will help when the AP uses NAT and all the other non-HTTP/S ports are at the default status of blocked, too

I use it to watch movies with Kodi.
I tried to use it as a pihole server but it stops working after 30 minutes or so.
During those 30 minutes everything works fine and ads are blocked on all my devices but after that it just shits itself, my phones drop from the wifi and can't get a new IP and my desktop marks my connection as limited.
Tried multiple fixes but none worked

>>61856544
Kys