Raspberry Pi 5 announced (now with a bunch of improvements, including PCIe 2.0 and support for connecting M.2 accessories including NVMe SSDs): raspberrypi.com/news/introduci…
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! - Raspberry Pi
Announcing Raspberry Pi 5, coming in late October: over 2x faster than Raspberry Pi 4, featuring silicon designed in-house at Raspberry Pi.Eben Upton (Raspberry Pi)
kierkegaank
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Janne Moren
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Charlie Stross
in reply to Janne Moren • • •Janne Moren
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Absolutely. My first computer (a Commodore VIC20) had a CPU less powerful than the embedded microcontroller in my current keyboard.
On the flip side, the past ~10 years has seen a major slowdown in development. This one is light desktop use today, and is likely still just as usable for that in 5-6 years.
The days of having to buy a new computer because the 2-3 year old one is too slow to run new programs is largely over.
Colin Jackson
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Dan Drake 🦆
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •ooooh, I know what I want for Christmas!
I mean, yes, I already have a small herd of Raspberry Pis scattered around, and don't *need* another, but...
Charlie Stross
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Unknown parent • • •NSKE
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Alexandra Lanes
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Not really for branded stuff. I can get knock-off NUCs, but even those start at $180, and I can get them the same via Amazon (which, to be fair, is probably the same drop-ship outfit).
Of course, this assumes we're talking about desktop replacement, brand new. If refurbished and/or embedded comes into place, we're wide open. I mean, some of the uses I saw for RPi4's connected to some automation kit could've been done by a ESP32s.
Nefarious Celt
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •Mine keeps an American cell phone network out of my home.
PiHole has managed my entire network without any power cycles.
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YurkshireLad
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Nicholas Weaver
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •OK, one disappointment: The Arm silicon doesn't do full Arm V8.3, only V8.2. V8.3 adds pointer authentication codes, which is an amazingly effective extension which helps mitigate a lot of memory attacks. It really ups the difficulty in exploiting things when present.
But I'm being picky here, really...
YurkshireLad
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in reply to Mark Eichin • • •mathew
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Optimized for cops too apparently.
petapixel.com/2022/12/09/raspb…
Raspberry Pi Under Fire by Creators Who Are Upset it Hired a Former Cop
Jaron Schneider (PetaPixel)Charlie Stross
in reply to mathew • • •@mathew @nske @Uilebheist That article is nearly a year old.
(Yes, they handled the spy cop mess abysmally. But if I boycotted every company that employed an ex-cop or someone equally dubious I'd never be able to buy *anything* because that's how our world is structured these days.)
mathew
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •It’s not so much that they employed him, it’s that they were proud of it, went after their own customers when called out, and remain unapologetic.
Sure, you can’t boycott everybody, but in cases there are less offensive alternatives — and in this case there seem to be plenty — I still think boycotts are plausible and effective.
I mean, your argument is the one a lot of people will use to stay on Xitter.
mathew
Unknown parent • • •@goatsarah @Uilebheist @nske Right, they’re all made in China, so that’s not a plausible decision criterion. But you can include other ethical concerns in your decision.
The argument that if you can’t be morally perfect you might as well not try at all, well, I see that as morally bankrupt.
mathew
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