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> Way to talk about emotional decisions while being bitter That's fair. > about some bad experience with another SBC. I didn't say one bad experience. I've t

by nsteel 3y ago

> Way to talk about emotional decisions while being bitter That's fair. > about some bad experience with another SBC. I didn't say one bad experience. I've tried a load of those "pi-killer" SBCs that have universally crap software support. Normally requiring some old version of Debian/Ubuntu and even then with some of their "killer" features broken. It is good to see Orange Pi actually doing some work there, maybe it is time to try again with an alternate board. I am bitter because it's frustrating that unlike hardware bugs that are actually hard to fix once you've started shipping, software can be updated. But none of the other companies invest in that. It feels like they are just on to the next version, desperate to keep ahead on features. Compared to Raspberry Pi, where for example, things like the Pi 4 throttling issue are fixed/improved down the line. > RPi5 still not supporting voltages above 5v via usb-pd I didn't see this one. Do you have details?

snvzz 3y ago
>I didn't see this one. Do you have details? Like the previous boards, it doesn't support usb power beyond 5v. This time it's usb-pd proper, but still has that limit. So It's the same as usual. Most usb supplies out there (majorly phone chargers) won't output much current at 5v, only at higher voltages, thus you need to buy a known-good supply especially just so that the rpi is happy. And, as happened the last time, the old one is probably not good enough, as current requirements went up.
- nsteel 3y ago
  Oh right, I've never had problems there but I've a good selection of decent power supplies. I've been using my Pi 4 supply with the Pi 5, no problems so far but I am only using one USB device (not a disk...). I can see why they did it but I agree it's pretty annoying. For the record, you can disable the new USB current limitation when using a 3A PSU, supposedly it still functions fine but as always, depends what you are doing.

by nsteel 3y ago

snvzz 3y ago

>I didn't see this one. Do you have details? Like the previous boards, it doesn't support usb power beyond 5v. This time it's usb-pd proper, but still has that limit. So It's the same as usual. Most usb supplies out there (majorly phone chargers) won't output much current at 5v, only at higher voltages, thus you need to buy a known-good supply especially just so that the rpi is happy. And, as happened the last time, the old one is probably not good enough, as current requirements went up.

nsteel 3y ago
Oh right, I've never had problems there but I've a good selection of decent power supplies. I've been using my Pi 4 supply with the Pi 5, no problems so far but I am only using one USB device (not a disk...). I can see why they did it but I agree it's pretty annoying. For the record, you can disable the new USB current limitation when using a 3A PSU, supposedly it still functions fine but as always, depends what you are doing.