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To: fireman15

A little off-topic, but..

If you’re not doing anything intense, take a look at the Raspberry Pi4 and Pi5. They work fine for surfing, music, video. They have 4 USB ports, Ethernet, Bluetooth, WIFI, two HDMI ports. The Pi4 will output audio to an audio jack, HDMI, or Bluetooth. The Pi5 audio is only on the HDMI and Bluetooth ports.

Got a couple here. Use them on the road and occasionally at home.

They are Linux - they do NOT do windows.
About the size of a deck of cards.


46 posted on 09/18/2025 8:22:13 PM PDT by dagunk
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To: dagunk
They are Linux - they do NOT do windows.
About the size of a deck of cards.

I have always meant to get a Raspberry Pi kit to play with. According to Grok they are capable of limping along with the ARM versions Windows 10 and 11 for tasks that are not demanding. So, it is not a good solution.

https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg%3D%3D_84d51144-5cad-44b0-88b8-8e809f5fed5f

52 posted on 09/18/2025 8:44:39 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: dagunk

RE: The RPi4 and RPi5

I’m no expert and do less roll/build your own stuff any more, but from what I can tell, the cool kids at r/homelab and such seem to have kicked the RPi to the curb in favor of mini PCs for in-rack use.


78 posted on 09/19/2025 8:38:52 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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