Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?

[dxg]

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[loudlashadjuster]

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[ajprice]

With the USB 3 on board, it looks like a USB 3 flash drive will be a much faster storage than the micro SD card to install an OS onto (if you can install an OS to USB on an RPi?)

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raspberry-pi-...

[boxst]

They are sold out now, just went to order one

[tribbles]

dxg said:

I think it should fit the existing cases, although the HDMI is different. Nothing a dremel can't solve!

Ethernet and USB ports have switched too.

Again, a dremel would solve it...

[RizzoTheRat]

If anyone's after an interesting project to try with their pi...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48743043

[devnull]

ash73 said:

Developer is very defensive on the forum, quite arrogant actually, when anyone suggests this is not what the market wants.

You mean the whiny response from jamesh in response to the 'can we have an option with no wifi/bluetooth'

I did chuckle at that. There are definitely applications (i.e. security sectors) where no radios are much more preferential to 'switched off radios'.

[outnumbered]

I could replace a small Intel server with one of these if it had proper 64 bit support (I'm not interested in Betas or downloading some random person off the internet's hacked distro). Otherwise my existing PIs are fast enough for what they need to do at the moment. It's great they've kept the price the same for the 1Gb version though.

[loudlashadjuster]

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[mph999]

Got two, one is attached to a SSD running urbackup as a backup server.
Other one controls my 3d printer - which was handy as I printed a case for it.

[alorotom]

Hoping that a true version of Plex Media Server is now released for the Pi4 as the specs could handle the conversion.

[dxg]

You can get whole home amps that only fully power up when an input audio single is sensed. Would be simpler than some kind of script with delays and timings...

[julian64]

has there been any resolution to the IOT Microsoft not feeling its responsible for the graphics driver on the RPI, and RPI feeling its so important that Microsoft should do its work for it.

[ajprice]

Ordered a Retroflag GPI case. A Gameboy replica case that takes a Pi Zero in the cartridge casing. Limited stock but I've got this order coming for delivery at the end of the month/Early September.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RT9VGS4/ref=p...

http://retroflag.com/GPi-CASE.html

[Church of Noise]

loudlashadjuster said:

Dug my original B out of a drawer to set up as a PiHole DNS server. Tremendous stuff, even works on a Zero, apparently.

Anyone on here running a Pi Zero W?
I've ordered one to run Pi-Hole (basically filtering out ads and the like on a DNS level to cover all devices covered on the network instead through separate tools for each device such as Blokada for the smartphones and uBlock Origin for browsers on computers)

Edited by Church of Noise on Saturday 3rd August 10:49

[weeboot]

I've got a zero w lying around, but I run pihole on a 2b, not sure I'd want my DNS sat on a wireless device..

[loudlashadjuster]

weeboot said:

I've got a zero w lying around, but I run pihole on a 2b, not sure I'd want my DNS sat on a wireless device..

Yeah, and wireless, especially on a modest platform like a Zero, can add an order of magnitude of latency. Not ideal for DNS when you can have dozens of queries per page.

[egomeister]

loudlashadjuster said:

weeboot said:

I've got a zero w lying around, but I run pihole on a 2b, not sure I'd want my DNS sat on a wireless device..

Yeah, and wireless, especially on a modest platform like a Zero, can add an order of magnitude of latency. Not ideal for DNS when you can have dozens of queries per page.

I've been running it on a Zero W for a while without any real issues. Hard wired is better if you have the choice, but wireless has worked ok for me.

[Mattt]

Doesn’t the Zero let you use an Ethernet power injector (IIRC) from things like the Google Chromecast?

Not PoE but EoP...

[Church of Noise]

I added a miniUSB to Ethernet adapter for that reason (and as a plus, it also brings a couple of additional USB ports).
Configured Pi-Hole to use Eth0 and not wireless.

Currently getting my modem/router to actually use the Pi-Hole for DNS...