kn100

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[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

It's absolutely fantastic! If you read the FAQ for it it even provides instructions on how you can use it to "simulate" other headphones default sound signature on yours which is very neat!

[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 32 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Get yourself a generally well regarded set of headphones, then look into HTTPS://AUTOEQ.app, and you'll have a great time. You don't have to go ridiculous to get amazing audio.

[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Good catch with the disk encryption stuff! Tumbleweed never fails to surprise me with how stable it is for a rolling release distro!

[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Oh I know it's not, it's just funny how it kinda looks like that

[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

AI generated toblerone

 
[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

This made me chuckle, thanks!

[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beep Boop I'm in ur Lemmys astroturfin ur as yet unavailable SBCs.

Nah in all seriousness I too don't need a pi 5. I just respect what the people behind the Pi project are doing, and it upsets me that people are mad about what is in my opinion a very solid evolution of the Pi because of the availability issues of the Pi 4 during the largest supply shortage the world has seen in ALL consumer goods, not just hobbyist SBCs. Yes that sucked, but there were shortages in virtually everything else too. They also happen to be manufactured in my hometown which means they get a special place in my heart.

Brb sifting thru ur data and targeting ads.

[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

When I say easy to get, I don't necessarily mean "in stock" - and that is obviously a huge consideration. What I do mean that as far as I know the Pi foundation plans to keep manufacturing older boards for a long time since some customers can't just easily upgrade to the latest Pi, let alone move to a whole new platform. Is the Beelink x86 PC you got last week going to still be for sale without any significant revisions in 6 months?

[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lol I assure you I'm no bot. I just think that people forget that the Pi fills a niche that I know many self hosty types like myself no longer need it to fill, and the Pi 5 imo is another slam dunk in terms of nailing filling that particular niche. Other ARM SBCs tend to always have trouble with GPU hardware acceleration due to the weird MediaTek or rockchip SoCs they have or end up pinned to some ancient kernel version missing sources.

I too moved away from Pis to an X86 setup (https://kn100.me/erying-11800h/) something I talk about in great detail in that blog post, but appreciate the Pi exists and continues to evolve in the way it is. Not everything is about mac compute per dollar for everybody!

[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (11 children)

While there are now X86 SBC / Mini Computers that aren't far off the Pi in price, the real benefits of the Pi aren't just the fact that it offers a certain amount of compute for a certain price.

  • It's still lower power than most x86 SBCs overall, which matters with portable/remote applications

  • Its schematics are usually available

  • They're easy to get and have a usually guaranteed availability, so when one dies you should be able to get another

  • its got a decent ecosystem around it of hardware and software, which basically nobody else can claim

  • it's a fairly standard form factor, so fits into existing stuff well.

  • It's likely we will see a compute module for the Pi 5 as well at a guess, which means you can treat the vanilla Pi 5 as a dev board for whatever product you're developing, and then use a potential CM5 as the core of your product once it's ready to go!

If all you need is a home server or a Linux box, then sure get an X86 SBC, but the Pi isn't irrelevant, not by a long shot! Congratulations on releasing yet another sweet spot product, I'll be picking one up as soon as I think of a use for one!

[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Honestly, didn't really feel like much was actually said.

[–] kn100@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I experience exactly that you describe except for on the cpu fan header, that one is controllable as long as a 4 pin fan is used

 
 
 

Hello all! I would love to bring my old subreddit /r/cybiko over to sh.itjust.works but can't figure out how to create a community! Is the ability to do so currently closed off or something or am I just being daft?

For some context, the Cybiko is this weird games console PDA thing from the early 2000s that was forgotten about almost immediately. I took over the subreddit around 4-5 months ago and had around 200 members that were somewhat active, but I privated that subreddit and nuked my account, so that's gone.

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