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What? I have not given any such examples. That is a straw man. You entirely correct that underclocking has been used to gain stability issues that have been ca

by tjoff 9y ago

What? I have not given any such examples. That is a straw man. You entirely correct that underclocking has been used to gain stability issues that have been caused by poor power supplies. But has nothing to do with throttling, heat related issues or this article. I'm "ignoring" that because I have not (and I have not seen anyone else) suggested that raw CPU grunt is the end goal... I would have imagined the end goal for this particular use case is availability. Microsoft want's people to play with their solutions and the reason to target the Pi is because of availability and familiarity at a very low price point. It is the single most popular and accessible device they could have adapted this project for. For that purpose I can not imagine any better hardware than the Raspberry Pi.

laumars 9y ago
> What? I have not given any such examples. That is a straw man. Sorry it must have been someone elses post. Full of cold at the moment so bare with me :-/ > You entirely correct that underclocking has been used to gain stability issues that have been caused by poor power supplies. But has nothing to do with throttling, heat related issues or this article. I wasn't suggesting that either. I think we are both arguing the same points badly tbh. > I would have imagined the end goal for this particular use case is availability. That was my assumption as well but I think their approach is a little confusing. They talk about the ELL framework being designed for "resource constrained platforms and small single-board computers, like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and micro:bit." yet then go on to discuss appending a fan to the Pi in a way that kind of defeat the purpose of running a Pi. It makes it very confusing when read any one of their articles in isolation as I had done initially. In any case, it's good to see Microsoft continuing to support Linux.

by tjoff 9y ago

laumars 9y ago

> What? I have not given any such examples. That is a straw man. Sorry it must have been someone elses post. Full of cold at the moment so bare with me :-/ > You entirely correct that underclocking has been used to gain stability issues that have been caused by poor power supplies. But has nothing to do with throttling, heat related issues or this article. I wasn't suggesting that either. I think we are both arguing the same points badly tbh. > I would have imagined the end goal for this particular use case is availability. That was my assumption as well but I think their approach is a little confusing. They talk about the ELL framework being designed for "resource constrained platforms and small single-board computers, like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and micro:bit." yet then go on to discuss appending a fan to the Pi in a way that kind of defeat the purpose of running a Pi. It makes it very confusing when read any one of their articles in isolation as I had done initially. In any case, it's good to see Microsoft continuing to support Linux.