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can you tell us more about what you mean by 'self destructing while not being plugged' ?

• _ink_ 4y ago
  not OC, but I guess linux not booting, because the file system got corrupted.
• somewhereoutth 4y ago
  If you simply unplug a RPi without shutting it down properly there is a chance that the SD card will get corrupted. It is possible to 'harden' the system by mounting the SD card read only, but that is a faff to set up and I've still had corrupted cards. This makes the RPi not useful for kiosk type applications. Contrast with Arduino, where I plug it into my laptop and upload some code, thereafter I can plug it in/out/'turn it all about' with power and it reliably does 'stuff'
  • allo37 4y ago
    Apparently the CM4 comes with on-board eMMC as an option. About time!
  • Orothrim 4y ago
    Have you considered any of the raspberry pi power button options that exist? Something with a reasonable size capacitor and a signal pin to let the Pi know to shutdown when it's lost power, before the capacitor runs out, might work?
    • somewhereoutth 4y ago
      Yes capacitor power button would work (assuming it is reliable). Still an amount of faff and expense to set up, especially if you are scaling a deployment. It would be great if the RPi (or some version of it) had this 'pre-installed'.