• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Wtf who would pay that much for a fuckin raspberry poo

    The entire point of raspberry pi is that they’re like $15 bucks for a bunch of cheap components. That’s why in every picture there’s no housing or anything. It’s just a $0.10 pcb and a few dollars here and there of components from the same mass produced factory that’s still producing the same usb ports and microcontrollers from old motherboards in 1999

    Are you sure $385 isn’t for like two hundred of them? For like students?

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      4 days ago

      With FEX and 16GB of ram you can probably play low power PC games without much issue now, it’s just a computer

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        It seems really antithetical to the whole point of raspberry pi. Like a lowered/slammed truck that can’t carry anything, or a bicycle with 100 training wheels and a gas motor.

        It’s like they’ve lost the plot.

        It would be one thing if it was done by a user for fun, or otherwise was the exception to the rule. But having a $400 raspberry pi is ridiculous.

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          You’re not wrong but…

          A whole x86 SoC for reading a dial and controlling some RGB LEDs and a dot matrix display is ridiculous. Microcontrollers are IFAIK still as cheap as ever.

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            A whole x86 SoC for reading a dial and controlling some RGB LEDs and a dot matrix display is ridiculous.

            I wouldn’t use a Pi for that either as this can all be done with a $5 ESP32

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            I think Fex is. They even describe it that way themselves.

            Proton probably isn’t. It’s WINE with extra steps, isn’t it?

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              I mean there are definitely different kinds of emulation, I don’t usually consider mapping library calls and dynamic/static recompilation to be emulation in the same way I think of like a ps2 emulator, but it’s not inaccurate to say. I just wouldn’t call them emulation personally.

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      Its expensive bc raspberry pi has to have a single ram chip. The 16gb model is way overkill for most tasks that you should be using a pi for. If you need it you need, it’s probably for business reasons and you’re not super price sensitive.

      The 1 and 2 gig boards are 45/80 dollars on canakit.