Hmm maybe I should check in on the sbc community and see what cool fun things I can do while everything else is probitively expensive.....oh
>>109080770There has to be a way to turn my old phones into PCs by now
>>109080770why are you poor? too stupid and/or lazy to succeed? lol
>>10908077099% of the price is the RAM
>>1090811648gb ram raspberry pi5 is like $200 since 2022
>>109081180How much is a 8GB orange pi?
macbook neo costs $600 and is an sbc
>>109080775Nope. Locked proprietary hardware with locked proprietary drivers with locked proprietary boot loader....You get the idea...
>>109081466>>109080775Old Motorolas should be ok if they were ever supported by any alt-OS
Maybe soon we'll see a return to better more efficient code?
>>109080770>Le computer is affected by computer market prices... How is this possible>>109080775Look up device compatibility with droidian or postmarketOS. Or just use termux. I've been trying to put together a power supply for an old phone of mine that plugs into the BMS replacing the battery. Got it to boot but shuts down when opening apps.
one of my coworkers is a kid who just graduated high school and wants to study cs, so i suggested he get a pi zero 2 w to play with since its an inconsequential, cheap, radio-enabled linux computer with gpio and a decently established knowledge base so shit will be easy to search for when he breaks it. lo and behold its literally impossible to buy one for a reasonable price because of the commercial demand for it. im kinda tempted to preorder 10 of em for when theyre back in stock just to have some around.
>>109080775Samsung Dex still works
>>109081132and many more hit lines from memory manufacturers stocks holders
>>109080770Don't look up the current cost of the Raspberry Pi whatever you do.It's honestly all so disheartening. AI has killed the entire SBC industry.
>>109081223But it only has 8 GB of RAM. That Orange Pi has 4x as much RAM as the iToy.
>>109082113>I've been trying to put together a power supply for an old phone of mine that plugs into the BMS replacing the battery. Got it to boot but shuts down when opening apps.Cut off the little protection circuit that that phone battery has, and connect your power supply to it. I've even used it with a peeled off usb cable with a couple diodes to drop the voltage and it works and I haven't fried the phone so far.
>>109083129there is nothing worth doing on a computer that requires more than 4gb of ram
>>109081540>better more efficient code>in the age of aislopKek. You're funny, anon.
>>109083916>he needs full gigabyteslol
>>109083916Brutal RAMlet cope.
>>109080770Yeah, SBC are not by any means a "good deal" rn. Not just on your Orange Pi 6 "NPU" unit, across the board. The one you pictured is meant for foundational AI work (not running LLM) and the 32G DDR5 RAM is absolutely the cost driver on that thing. That said, all the SBC (RPi, OPi, etc.) are more expensive now, and widely out of stock. I've started doing more with ewaste-tier computers with DDR3 tier memory, since those are still basically free, for hobby stuff. I just picked up a Dell DFF with 3rd gen i5 and 8G DDR3 for $20 locally, and set it up as a NAS with an old 1T HDD. Before price escalation, I'd have used an OPi 3B and stuck a 1T SSD M2 drive in it.
>>1090811648gb ddr4 is 25€ I dont believe that ram is that expansive.
>>109081180I'm thinking about selling mine.. I have a rpi4 and a 5 both 8GB
>>109081180I bought mine for like 60 bucks when they came out and its been sitting in a drawer since kek
at this point it's better to just buy these tiny x86 pcs onmarketplace for a fraction of that
>>109085695>>109085298I sold all my extra Rpi during Covid lol, replacing them with cheap Orange pi. Now those are expensive too.
>>109083916I tested 4 GB of ram. It took 9 GB of ram plus swap to launch Grand Theft Auto IV on steam. This was on Arch with LXQt.
>>109084920how do you open 4khan with under 1 giggy
odroid h5 is $300 and it's a x86 sbc with with 10GbE and quad m.2, uses like 3W of power in idle. Fucking perfect for a server.
>>109082113wdym>a power supply for an old phone of mine? just plug in the charging cable and take out the battery
>>109081132Both.>lolWhy are you laughing at misfortune?
>>109082743just get him an Arduino kit
>>109088448i hate the poors. they're overwhelmingly poor because they're stupid and that's a proven fact
>>109088720I don't understand. You hate stupidity? Where does that focus stem from?
>>109088744He's an incel with no responsibility other than to himself. They usually develop these kind of positions. See miggers and their love for jews
These are the new meta for any RPi network toy project. > ewaste tier, nearly free, $20 on local marketplace> abundant and everywhere, always more b/c corporate 2-3 year refresh cycle creates more ewaste by the pallet load> solid power supplies> Use actual SSD/HDD vs. SD cards> replacement parts are abundant and cheapCons> Not small, not ideal for robotics> slightly higher power usage
