This Raspberry Pi alternative's worth a look! #shorts

Hey everyone! I'm not particularly fond of shorts (or vertical video for that matter), but I do find it a nice way to distill some quick information into a 1 minute bit. I think I may do this every month or two if I have a project I'm working on where I want to show some interesting tidbits but I'm not ready to make the full video yet!

I recorded this a few weeks ago, before the surgery. Recovery's been... okay so far. But still have a long way to go before I can get back to my office/studio in the basement! (I haven't even attempted a flight of stairs yet!).

I had a little time this weekend where I felt up to editing, so I put together this short. Hope you like it!

God, software is always the achilleas heel.

Is there a alternative with AI-accelerator?

I got my raspberry pi 4b for 63 dollars

Yeah but a raspberry pi 4 starter kit is like 70$

I dont understand i can get pi's for 60 euro?

I got one for $70..

pis are less than 100$💀

Um no, just buy the pi it's 75

That's just a fuckn laptop motherboard!

I've just moved to used Thin Clients. For $50 to $100 bucks, you can get a Dell Wyse or HP Thin client that has Intel or AMD processors and will run nearly any OS. Power consumption can be very competitive to a single-board computer.

Pity no 2nd nic :( I personally feel that the lack of a 2nd nic on many SoB's is a utter failure.... These could make decent, low poerr.basic routers / firewalls..

With this is possible installing os raspbian Debian? @jeffgeerling

Yep, software support (or lack thereof) is always the biggest catch with these things.

I like that you can put in a wireless card and not have the USB 3 bus render it completely useless

Dude! That loop was the most perfect loop.

Raspberry Pi shortages are really going to create a space for competition. I think even AMD is coming in with a SoC to market.

and now its 210$

Wait wot.. when did raspberry pi jack prices so high?

That's the one weakness of Pine. Their software support is atrocious. If the community doesn't do it, then it doesn't get done.

Dies it work with hq cam and picamera2?

Hmmm can I get steam OS running on it….

That's just an orange pi 5 b 😂😂😂

guys who use the jetson xavier nx :-😎😎

For stuff that I need this for (running a local file server for 200 bucks I can get a low end pc and turn that into a janky server, probably cost me more if raspberry pi uses ARM processors

Alternatives shouldn't contain an apostrophe. There is no ownership involved.

I think is awesome that the RPi prices are so high: I got into embedded programming thanks to the extra motivation to look for lower cost alternatives. Now, I don't see the point of having a RPi anymore, I would rather just buy a cheap notebook.

for ARM SoCs that already have good mainline support(like rk3399) I recommend a a generic ARM64 image. in my experience debian and fedora are pretty good in that regard. You can use arch or manjaro but their hardware support and maintenance speed isn't that great.

That loop was FLAWLESS

the perfect loop doesnt exis-

I wish I could sell rasperry pi 4 and get a normal computer😢😢but my parents won't let me😢😢😢😢😢

Two NICs > Two HDMI

so the rock 5 can do less....but it does it 3 times faster 😁

Wtf I paid about 45$ for a 2GB Pi4 incl. Heatsink and poweradapter new.

Just checked fleabea and most pi's are around 50-60 bucks buy it now. Less if your a savvy bidder. Just fyi

Wow fuck tiktok it's really ruined a lot like prices of this shit for example

I am extremely disappointed with myself for buying this board. Everything with this device is messy. I know things aren’t equal or the same that said I own the fabulous rpi4 the khadas vim 3 and 4 so I wrongfully assumed that I’d be ok installing operating systems on the Rock5b without much fuss. Not so much. I did manage to install rebornos via sd card but now that image will no longer boot ugh. I have a 1tb wd blue nvme ssd but I can’t boot anything from it. Cool looking board for sure but…..

But does it run Crysis?

the pi 800 costs 100 usd
and its way more powerful then raspberry pi 4 and the rock pi also you can find raspberry pi 4 for 80 usd

I still stay awake some nights thinking about the time Target sold pis and I had grabbed a few but my wife said no, she bought me a pi4 a week later as a surprise, but still

All of those specs and nothing to run on it. Pass

The most important thing would be power consumption, since most people will run not very hard tasks on their Pi it has to be low wattage.

Why not look at Line64s rockpro64?

For 150$ got a whole computer with a 3770k

Im looking for sbc for pihole and omada host app. the price has been rising to ridiculous level to the extend its cheaper for me to get a thin client with proper ssd i/o sdhc we use in rpi. Get a stripped linux there, and kept it run in low load for 6 years +. Beyond that is the breakeven point for TCO (incl energy cost) of rpi vs thin client.

This ARM crap is as expensive as used x86 PCs and laptops with a higher performance.

From what I've read, Debian 11 works, but without support for Bluetooth or the second HDMI port, or DisplayPort alt mode with a USB-C dock. Get to coding, kernel developers!

Best loop for a short I may have ever seen.

Does it not work with windows 10/11?

csn you install windows?