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But the software for other SBCs is extremely bad, I've never heard of any Pi on release or after that has any software or hardware bugs. Proprietary blobs aren
by sfsdf343425 3y ago
But the software for other SBCs is extremely bad, I've never heard of any Pi on release or after that has any software or hardware bugs.
Proprietary blobs aren't that bad with Broadcom...
- throw932490 3y ago[dead]
- sfsdf343425 3y agoBaseline RAM Pi are still magnitudes cheaper, its a moot/niche above 2GB for most makers. Pi doesn't have to cater to lite servers only... Gotta admit that Pi foundation never cared about batteries, especially since it's common with makers, audio removal etc...
- throw932490 3y agoPi4 2GB with power source, SD card, case, fan is like $100. You can have nice Atom MiniPC for that. Or old PC from ebay...
- sfsdf343425 3y agoBut these are used, cheap new Atom miniPC doesn't have GPIO, and brand new Atom SBCs with GPIO are more $$$ with the same SoC compared to miniPC since they aren't mass produced. A used Pi with sdcard/case/fan is much less than $40.
- ThrowawayR2 3y agoUSB GPIO dongles are a cheap addon to any x86 PC, e.g. "Adafruit General Purpose USB to GPIO" at https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264 https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264
- throw235398 3y agoThese tend to have buffer underrun issues causing latency in the order of seconds, requiring deeper knowledge in the embedded field to mitigate. Most educational content that involve the Pi tend to use system GPIO libraries and integration, making other SBCs or USB expansion boards difficult to use for newcomers. The Pi is a platform other than the hardware, their forum should be more welcoming though.
- throw235398 3y ago[dead]
- chipt4 3y agoIt (the 5) has a hw HEVC decoder, just no encoder
- dang 3y agoCould you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix&page=0&query=community%20identity%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
- amluto 3y agoRPi has its share of bugs. USB spec violations and busted WPA3 come to mind.
- geerlingguy 3y agoIf you're thinking of the USB-C PD input being 5v/5A, that's not a spec violation, just a bit of an extreme use of the more recent version of the standard. It would be nice if it were higher voltage/lower amperage, but it works at least with their own power adapter through a few clever tricks. For WPA3, it is what it is... most SBCs have 'middling at best' built-in WiFi, and while the driver support can improve, I typically stick to external or M.2 PCIe WiFi chips if I need something more robust. (Hopefully a WiFi HAT will make its way to the market with Intel AX210 or something like that).
- amluto 3y agoI actually meant this old USB issue: https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/exploring-the-raspberry-pi-4-usb-c-issue-in-depth/ https://hackaday.com/2019/07/16/exploring-the-raspberry-pi-4...
- geerlingguy 3y agoAh yes, that one was pretty silly. Partly due to not spreading out alpha test hardware wide enough to catch a more obvious bug like that. Also up there with 'don't take pictures of the Pi 2, the camera flash will reboot it' :)