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technocrit ,

Sooner or later capitalism ruins everything.

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

Then it’s a good thing that no countries have pure capitalism for their economy.

We need regulation on corporations to keep them in check.

Subdivide6857 ,

I can’t wait till those regulations get enforced.

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

If you’re having trouble finding when it is enforced you can look at websites like this one that list out the many cases brought up against companies (for the U.S. at least).

ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings

Lost_My_Mind ,

You’re right. You CAN’T wait for it.

Because waiting for it would imply it would eventually happen.

jojo ,
@jojo@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

then it’s a good thing that no countries have pure capitalism for their economy

America: 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

America doesn’t have a pure capitalist economy.

A pure capitalist economy would have a free market system with no government intervention.

Almost every country has a mix between capitalism and socialism for their economies.

A pure capitalist economy is terrible just as much as a pure socialist economy would be terrible.
The trick is finding the right balance between the two.

kboy101222 ,

Government doing things ≠ socialism.

Government regulating things ≠ socialism

Roads and parks ≠ socialism

Socialism is based in the collective ownership of companies by the workers who make everything happen, rather than execs and managers. Socialism isn’t when government does stuff or when healthcare.

Lost_My_Mind ,

I like how enraged you were that your comment just abruptly ends. It comes off like you were ranting in front of a microphone and got so worked up you walked away mid-rant. Just ranting down the hallway, and down the street…but we don’t hear it, because you’re away from the microphone.

kboy101222 ,

It’s supposed to be in the style of those “socialism is when government does stuff” memes. That’s pretty much how all of them end

Lost_My_Mind ,

Never seen one.

Dkarma ,

Maybe get out from under the rock more often

SeekPie ,

Now you have.

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

I’m just going off of the definition here:

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism

any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

We definitely don’t have a pure capitalist economy since that would mean that there is no government intervention in the market.

And we do have parts of the economy that are owned/run by the government as socialism would suggest.

What would you call it, if not a mix of capitalism and socialism? Maybe a mix of Capitalism and Communism would be more accurate?

This article would seem to suggest that: www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economy.asp

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

I would argue that the very means of communist ownership relying on the state means that state capitalism is the means in which communism is reached, and the Soviet Union definitely aligned closer to that, but this is a topic of dispute with scholars.

exanime ,

In America, the government intervention is whatever corporations pay politicians to say and do… it’s actually worse than pure Capitalism and they managed, through regulatory capture, to turn the government against the people or competition for their paymasters

neo ,

You’re downvoted, maybe because people think you promoted the current system (I don’t see that), but what you wrote is technical correct.

The US has less regulations than it used to have, but there are still rules (e.g. laws against insider trading and stock manipulation, labour laws, consumer and environmental protection etc.).

Unfortunately the existing rule are being gamed into oblivion and I’m not saying they are sufficient nor do I deny their decline. I’m just saying it could (and maybe will) be worse than now.

LadyAutumn ,

Youre thinking of laissez-faire capitalism, maybe even libertarian capitalism?

America is absolutely capitalist in every sense of the term. The entire nation is corporatized and the government has no particularly influential anti-capitalist entities. Both competing parties are capitalist. The social framework by which we raise children is structured to indoctrinate them into the ideologies of neoliberalism and American economic exceptionalism. The propaganda that American society is meritocratic is enforced throughout our entire lives, all with the aim of suppressing the class consciousness of the working class.

People are responding to you with derision because what you’re saying doesn’t make any sense. Capitalism and socialism are not based entirely on hard rules. They’re both economic ideologies and social philosophies packaged into cultural frameworks. America is actively anti socialist. They have a very long history of anti communism and anti workers’ rights. America is the holotype of post-Reagan neoliberal capitalism. It is one of the worst countries in the world in terms of wealth disparity and income inequality. It is one of the least regulated economic powers in history, with it being open knowledge that billionaires rule the country and can essentially do anything they want without facing any kind of material consequences.

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

When I say pure capitalism, yes, I’m referring to laissez faire capitalism.

I can’t think of any countries that currently have that, and I don’t think we should want that.

Socialism is likely not the best term here, but when I’m referring to it economically I mean in the sense that the government has ownership of some businesses and is regulating other businesses as opposed to what would happen with laissez-faire capitalism.

Perhaps it is better to say that the U.S. is a mix between Capitalism (a market economy) and Communism (a command-based economy) as this article explains? www.investopedia.com/terms/e/economy.asp

It is one of the worst countries in the world in terms of wealth disparity and income inequality.

That has not been my experience when visiting/living in other countries, but I am curious if you have some data to back this statement up?

Although I do agree that we have a problem with wealth disparity and income inequality.

I think we should look to other countries that have much higher levels of happiness (Such as Sweden) compared to the U.S. and try to imitate what they are doing.

Even in the case of looking to economies like what Sweden has, it is still a mixed economy. So completely doing away with capitalism is not something we should be striving for.

LadyAutumn ,

There is no aspect of the US that is in any sense communist. Communism refers very specifically to a style of government which directly owns and controls the means of production across all forms of industry. This style of government is controlled by the proletariat. That is not the case for any industry in the US. The link you provided is propaganda not based on any actual communist beliefs. Communism is not a “command based” anything, it is a philosophy with regards to the distribution of the means of production and how the fruits of the working class’s labor should be shared.

worldpopulationreview.com/…/gini-coefficient-by-c…

The US gini coefficient is 39.8 as of 2021. Making it one of the worst countries in the world for income inequality. There are plenty of areas in the southern states especially where entire towns are below the poverty line, some very significantly below it.

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

Well the U.S. isn’t entirely capitalist either.

On one extreme you have a completely free market economy. On the other extreme you have an economy that’s completely controlled by the government (such as Communism).

A pure free market economy doesn’t really exist anywhere among all the countries, what we have instead are a lot of countries that try to find the right balance between letting the market control itself and having the government control the market.

So call it whatever you want, but the US does have a mixed economy when placed on that scale.

The US gini coefficient is 39.8 as of 2021. Making it one of the worst countries in the world for income inequality.

I don’t know how you can say it’s one of the worst when it’s not even in the bottom third in that list of 162 countries.

According to that source, the worst country is South Africa with a Gini coefficient of 63.0.

The best country is Norway with a Gini Coefficient of 22.7.

The US. Ranks 57th with a Gini coefficient of 39.8.

If anything that places it in the middle rather than “one of the worst”.

LadyAutumn ,

Considering all the other listed countries are classified as developing nations, no yeah it’s one of the worst in the world lol. It’s worth it for you to read up on how the gini coefficient is calculated.

Also, it is ranked 57th when sorted worst to best. It is sorted at 120th from best to worst. Worse than 119 other nations.

And no, you’re again misusing the term communism. Communism isn’t a scale it refers specifically to a state in which the means of production are shared collectively amongst the working class. You’ve invented a thing and then are using your own invention to sort terms that have actual meanings not related to your invented scale

America is also not a mixed economy, what are you on about? What industry is public in the US? Most of the states don’t even have public power services. Essentially, none have public medical services.

There are many sources online that can explain the distinction for you. Check what you’re reading and from where, as America is incredibly biased against socialism and there are entire corporations dedicated to spreading anti-socialist propaganda.

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

Also, it is ranked 57th when sorted worst to best. It is sorted at 120th from best to worst. Worse than 119 other nations.

Yes, 57th when sorted from worst to best, I never said otherwise. And your numbers are a little off when sorting the other way around. There are only 162 countries with rankings in that list, so flipping it around puts the U.S. at 105th (behind 104 other nations).
Besides, we’re looking at the Gini Coefficient which (with the countries on this list) has a range of ~23 to ~63, and a score of ~40 is right in the middle of that. In no way is the U.S. at the top of that list, but I still don’t see how you can consider it to be “one of the worst countries in the world for income inequality”.

You’ve invented a thing and then are using your own invention to sort terms that have actual meanings not related to your invented scale

I mean, I’m trying to explain in other terms so that we can understand each other better?

And if I understand this right, you’re saying that it doesn’t make sense to create a scale where:

  • one side of it is laissez fair capitalism, a completely free market economy with no government regulation
  • the other side is an economy entirely run/controlled by the government with complete government regulation (such as communism)

Communism isn’t a scale

I never said it was a scale. I just placed it at one end of the scale. The scale being “how much control a government has over the market.”

On that scale, the U.S. is mostly capitalist, I have never said otherwise.

Wrrzag ,
@Wrrzag@lemmy.ml avatar

Regulated capitalism is still capitalism. There’s no such thing as “pure” or “impure” capitalism, the social relationships to capital are the same. Lassiez-faire capitalism is just a flavour of it.

It’s like ice-cream: you may prefer chocolate ice-cream over vanilla ice-cream, but they are both flavours of ice-cream and you wouldn’t say “yea, that’s not pure ice-cream”. Some people may even dislike ice-cream altogether and prefer cheesecake.

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

Imagine a scale, on one end is a market economy where the government does not regulate it in any way, and does not own any part of it in any way. This is pure capitalism/laissez fair capitalism, whatever you want to call it. And you are correct, it does not exist today in any country (and that’s a good thing in my opinion).

On the other end of that scale would be an economy that is completely controlled/owned/regulated by the government (for example, communism).

In economic terms, every country falls on that scale with some balance between a completely free market economy and how much regulation they impose as well as what kind of industries they control/own.

If someone is going to blame capitalism for “ruining everything” they are basically asking for a market system where everything is controlled/owned by the government. Where monopolies are rampant, and the citizens have no choice except for what the government or dictatorship has decided. In my opinion, this is also a bad choice.

If I am wrong about what they are asking for, feel free to point out the economy of a country that they are saying we should follow. In other words, if not capitalism, what are you asking for?

Wrrzag ,
@Wrrzag@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m a commie, so I’m all for social ownership of the means of production, but that’s neither here nor there. The point is, there isn’t a scale of how pure capitalism is: a Keynesian model is as capitalistic as laissez-faire is because the underlying relationships to capital are the same. Communism isn’t at the other end of any scale because it’s an entirely different model, not just more or less regulation.

Some may argue that no country is socialist because they are still transitioning, and that they are still capitalist, but that’s not a scale: they are not socialist (yet, hopefully) because their mode of production is still capitalistic.

Voroxpete ,

The fact that regulations make capitalism less dangerous doesn’t mean that capitalism is fine as long as its regulated.

Hand grenades have a tonne of safety features, but you wouldn’t let your kid play with one. “Safer” isn’t the same thing as “safe”.

NotAnotherLemmyUser ,

What would you propose as being better than the mix of capitalism and socialism that almost every country already has for their economy?

Both extremes lead to terrible outcomes.

Lost_My_Mind ,

Has any country actually TRIED anarchy? I know it sounds terrible on paper, but like…could it possibly be any worse then whatever the fuck north korea is doing? The dictator and his dogs eat very well. Nice beef meals. Whereas the citizens are more like prisoners within a country. Most never even seeing beef because it’s too expensive.

Would their lives actually be any worse off if there was just no government, no police, no military, no rules, just everybody for themselves?

Because it kind of seems like they got nothing to lose. It be an amazing case study.

LazyBane ,

There was the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. It’s not a whole country going anarchist and no doubt the limited amount of people with the nessisary skill sets to have a functioning society (judging from the food garden they set up) held back the viability of the protest, but in general the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest was widly seen as a wild failure.

It’s an interesting thing to look up on, and I’d definitely recommend anyone who is serious about anarchism to study it for the potential pit falls of an anarchist society that they would need to work out first.

Voroxpete ,

“Listen, we already watered down our deadly poison a little and it’s still killing us. Unless you have a better idea we’ll just have to keep drinking deadly poison.”

Lost_My_Mind ,

I’d let my kid play with a grenade. Then again, I don’t have kids by choice, so to imply I had kids would be to imply that at some point something went terribly wrong. But rectified in the most absurd method possible.

Plus, you couldn’t go to jail for child abuse, because what parent is “double checking” that the grenade he’s playing with is in fact a toy? BECAUSE WHERE THE HELL DOES THIS 3 YEAR OLD GET A GRENADE???

That logic would track in court. A very sad, very bizzare set of circumstances. That theres no way you could blame the parent for.

nifty ,
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

Might be good, maybe we’ll get an OS competitor then. It’s harder for hardware, but not impossible. An open source, fabless microcontroller built by a nonprofit, perhaps? A lot of universities have labs with the budget to allocate for this as part of a consortium

crimsonpoodle ,

I like your optimism best to look on the bright side and all— curious what do you mean by fabless? Do they not require as complex facilities because they’re a larger process or something? Or for some other reason?

nifty ,
@nifty@lemmy.world avatar

I was thinking maybe there could be different SoCs or machine learning oriented hardware, and if there are multiple designs then they could be put together somewhere else. Some research labs are specializing in different types of semiconductor devices, which I think might be interesting to explore on a microcontroller

TheFeatureCreature ,
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world avatar

And so begins “Line must go up” and the inevitable enshittification .

ShepherdPie ,

That began in 2020 for them.

xenoclast ,

It’s how you get to the IPO … so yeah

AVincentInSpace ,

ootl-- what happened in 2020?

ShepherdPie ,

During covid they essentially stopped selling to people and only sold to corporations with big orders which caused ridiculous scalping whenever a measly batch dropped for consumers. It wasn’t until around the end of last year that people were able to buy them at regular prices again.

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

So what do we use now that Raspi has gone to shit?

yessikg ,
@yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Orange Pi, Pine64 sbcs, Libre Computer Board, and mini pcs

Natanael ,

Who had broad software and driver support?

Grippler ,

Mini PCs have the same level of software and driver support as any desktop PC, so probably even better than raspi.

Omgboom ,

N100 mini PCs are where it’s at these days anyways. Unless you need the GPIO pins or are running some weird niche configuration, you’re better off grabbing any N100, they’re cheaper too.

BaroqueInMind ,

Added benefit of most using low power intel CPUs

BritishJ ,

They’re not actually lower powered, they just have a TDP limit set.

E.g. A 8500 and 8500T will idle at the same power consumption, but the 8500T has a TDP limit set.

FunderPants ,

I look for broken but working sff/tiny deals. Scored a sweet i5 7500 /16gb system for $100CAD. Just had a broken audio port I was never going to use.

rickyrigatoni ,

The fool you will be revealed to be once I complete my Ethernet Over Audio implementation.

go_go_gadget ,

It is I! USB-C-MAN! Begone with you foul villain!

HelloHotel ,
@HelloHotel@lemmy.world avatar

Oh boy, you’ve got a lot of protocols you can borrow for your OSI layer 1. ribbitradioand the telephone modem spec.

ouRKaoS ,

Ethernet Over Audio

Isn’t that just a telephone modem?

Gestrid ,

No, silly, that’s Audio Over Ethernet! /j

FunderPants ,

I just want you to know this is one of my favorite comments of all time.

czardestructo ,
@czardestructo@lemmy.world avatar

Can you swap the hard drive between any generation and still have it boot and work 100%? To me that was the second biggest feature after all the gpio and i2c buses I used to hack all manner of stuff together. Heck I even have a cargo trailer powered by a pi!

madcaesar ,

I have a pi 4, how would the transfer work? Can you install pios on the n100 and just clone stuff over?

Blackmist ,

N100 is a standard Intel x86 family chip, so no. Plenty of power though, so you’d be able to install any Linux distro or even Windows if you wanted to disgust Lemmy.

jabjoe ,
@jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

GPIOs are the easy bit. You can get those no issue on x86. It’s I2C and SPI that are the issue with x86. You can get the buses sure, but all the device drivers are Device Tree based. You can’t just throw in Device Tree overlays on x86.

SteveTech ,

Idk, with I2C if it’s not something that needs a kernel level driver, there usually isn’t a problem with interacting with it from user space, for example basically all RAM RGB controllers are I2C and OpenRGB has no problem with them. I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever used an I2C device tree overlay for an RTC.

Also I2C/SMBus is present everywhere on x86, like some graphics cards expose it through their HDMI ports, even some server motherboards have a header for it; but for GPIO I’m unaware of any motherboards that expose it, so good luck researching the chipset and tracing out the pins.

jabjoe ,
@jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

Only a fraction of it is RTCs. What is in the Pi overlays folder is from everything. Not even all the DT I2C RTCs. There is loads of ADCs, DACs, IO extenders, all sorts.

It’s really annoying you can’t do DT on x86 Linux. It’s a bit of a gap in the platform. It would make Linux ARM based developer’s lives easier.

SteveTech ,

ADCs, DACs, IO extenders

These should all work without kernel drivers. For example, here’s a user space python library for ADS1*15 ADCs, or Nuvoton MS51 IO Expanders. Unless you need very specific timing or require the kernel to know about it, you shouldn’t need a kernel driver.

jabjoe ,
@jabjoe@feddit.uk avatar

You can of course write drivers for them, but then it’s you own abstraction not the standard Linux abstraction. (You can hack something up with IIO for that stuff, but it’s not pretty). There is CUSE (part of FUSE) you can do some character devices with.

Existing drivers in Python are messy to use if you our not developer in Python.

The nice thing about in kernel is:

  • it’s done for you already
  • the interface is standard and will work with anything that uses that class of device
  • it’s langauge agnostic.

The Linux kernel does hardware abstraction. It’s not a microkernel. There is limited support for proper userspace drivers.

If you doing some application specific app, that will only work with those chips, use do it in userspace. But to make a normal system for normal use, you want things in kernel like normal.

xenoclast ,

PIs are kind of screwed from N* on the higher power end and ESP32 (or similar high power micro controllers) the lower end.

It’s become an underpowered middle player no one needs.

It was good while it lasted. PI3’s for $30 we’re amazing.

maniajack ,

After some light searching, am I missing something? I don’t see n100 cheaper than rpi 5

AceBonobo ,

Cheapest I’ve seen was $105

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

You’re forgetting to include the Pi heatsink, the Pi power supply and the Pi enclosure.

maniajack ,

Yeah good point, adds $10-$30 on top of rpi

Blackmist ,

Yeah, they’re nearly twice the price.

Far more capable though, and typically specced with 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD.

Valmond ,

Or get a used Thinkcentre tiny, way cheaper. Some have a serial out too.

Breve ,

When a company takes on shareholders, whatever goals, mission, or ethos they had is erased. They now exist as a vehicle to make as much money as possible at literally any cost. That’s it. Was nice while it lasted.

octopus_ink ,

Literally my exact first thought, but you were more eloquent.

c0smokram3r ,
@c0smokram3r@midwest.social avatar

Was hoping to set up a Pihole soon but now this, ugh! Any other alternatives???

Kecessa ,

There’s tons of cheap Dell computers with small form factor and much better specs…

ShepherdPie ,

I have a couple and they are great machines but don’t completely fill the space for the Pi which works great in embedded systems along with having so many accessories, hats, etc.

zout ,

Odroid has some nice boards, though I find them pricey.

bitwaba ,

You can buy some old thinclient lenovos on eBay for super cheap.

There’s other board manufacturers as well… basically just replace “raspberry” with some other fruit and there’s probably a Pi of it

I personally think the best thing to do is find a used Celeron laptop and disable the lid switch setting. Now you’ve got a server with a built in UPS.

Or just fire it up in a docker container because you’re already running Linux right? RIGHT?

c0smokram3r ,
@c0smokram3r@midwest.social avatar

Haha! Yezzz. Well, I installed Ubuntu in a mid-2014 Macbook pro I acquired. 🤷🏼‍♀️ every comments section seems to have so many users shitting on Ubuntu so idk what is going on

bitwaba ,

Ubuntu (or Canonical, their parent company) has gotten more pushy with their paid service. Personally for me, I’m moving off of Ubuntu to Debian pure systems or Arch because when I ssh to my Ubuntu file server, the MOTD tells me I can pay for some kind of premium service and get 35 additional security updates. So, that’s it. That’s my line in the sand. Don’t advertise to me on my terminal

(And then there’s all the shit about Snap being installed by default, and I’m just at a point where I only want installed what I want installed, etc)

But you do you man. If Ubuntu works great for you, stick with it. You may change your mind later down the road, you may not. As long as you’re happy with it right now that all that matters.

c0smokram3r ,
@c0smokram3r@midwest.social avatar

Thank you for the great answer! Yeah, works well for now, but I agree with all your points. Gonna check out Debian!

refreeze ,
@refreeze@lemmy.world avatar

If you don’t need the GPIO then buy a small form factor office PC like a Dell Optiplex Micro or a Lenovo/HP equivalent. They cost about the same on the used market, are more performant without the ARM headache and use only marginally more power (maybe 5-10w more at idle).

morbidcactus ,

If you want a SBC, a lepotato works really well, supposed to be more performant than a 3B. I used as an alternate to a raspberry pi for a klipper setup, running armbian on it now.

There are updated versions of it as well if you need more performance, but they’re cheaper than an equivalent pi and importantly, purchasable which was an issue when I was putting together that printer.

empireOfLove2 OP ,
@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Pi-hole can run on any supported computer+operating system (Linux x64 or ARM based) or in a docker container, you aren’t limited to using an actual Pi.

c0smokram3r ,
@c0smokram3r@midwest.social avatar

Thanks for the info! Will def check it out! I recently acquired a mid-2014 MacBook Pro & added Ubuntu. Thoughts??

empireOfLove2 OP ,
@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

That’d be fine. Laptop cooling fan might die from being on all the time as well as mechanical drive issues at that age but it’s solid hardware otherwise. Pihole is not overly intensive. Ideally make sure the pihole machine is on a wired network connection inside your LAN, because wifi routing latency will be bad otherwise. So that may necessitate a thunderbolt ethernet adapter, but I’ve bodged together much worse before lol.

TheLemming ,

As someone running a pihole off an old radio 2B, your MacBook will be more than sufficient to run what is needed. My only advice would be to get an Ethernet adapter if that model doesn’t have one. Losing valid dns queries due to wifi packet loss would be annoying. Beyond that, just google a guide and go, it’s super straightforward to set up and manage.

c0smokram3r ,
@c0smokram3r@midwest.social avatar

Awesome, TY!

1100000011110 ,

I bought a router that supports OpenWRT, and then installed AdGuard right on my router

exanime ,

Got my last Pi (RBP5) to try to set up a simple TV player under linux… unfortunately the performance was shit… had to go with Android and it’s barely OK (bang for buck)

With the IPO I expect RBP are going to become more expensive and significantly enshitified… so that’s that

sugar_in_your_tea ,

? RPi5 is something like 2x faster than RPi4. Are you using some format that RPi doesn’t accelerate? Or are you running something heavy?

I almost picked up an RPi5 to replace my NAS, but the SATA hat was out of stock so I just did a smaller upgrade with stuff laying around my house (Phenom II x4 -> Ryzen 1700, mostly for power savings).

ashok36 ,

Pi5 doesn’t have h264 hardware. Pi4 is probably better for media centers right now.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

That’s encoding, right? It seems to have 4k60 HEVC decoding, which should be plenty for a media center.

ashok36 ,

That assumes your media collection is all hevc. That’s not the case for most people.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

It only needs to be HEVC for 4k content, 1080p works fine in pretty much any format. Most people probably have mostly 1080p or 720p content.

ashok36 ,

Yes, that’s my point. If you have a library full of 1080 h264 then the pi 4 is a better choice. The Pi5 will struggle with software decoding compared to the 4.

At the end of the day, they’re different boards with different use cases. I think a lot of people don’t appreciate that enough.

jaybone ,

What software do you run for that, and is there support for a remote control?

ashok36 ,

For a standard media center, kodi is pretty great.

exanime ,

I was planning to use it to drive one of my TVs, so basically to be an HDTV player.

The Raspbian OS was fine, the Emby client would not start and the performance on the web client was not great.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Ah, okay. I’m not familiar with Emby, I’ve mostly only used Kodi on my RPi4. I’m guessing there’s a way to get reasonable performance, but you may need to transcode.

jaybone ,

What software were you running?

exanime ,

I was planning to use it to drive one of my TVs, so basically to be an HDTV player.

The Raspbian OS was fine, the Emby client would not start (segmentation fault) and the performance on the web client was not great.

Now on Android, Emby client runs pretty well (better than on the FireTV sticks I am trying to replace) but I could not get Google Play working (yet) which left me without F1TV (the only “other” vid app I care about for now to run on the TV)

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Let the enshitification begin!

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

The Pi5 is already a shitshow with crazy power usage requiring a special power supply instead of a normal USB C phone charger.

Valmond ,

Yeah I’d take a 3b-ish PI for say 30€ any day (IDK if that’s realistic pricing). If I need beefy hardware I just use a PC?

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

The Pi4 had a good price on release. Then Covid hit.

With the Pi5 the Pi foundation is just milking it. Overpriced chip on an inefficient outdated 28nm process node.

Lettuceeatlettuce ,
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

We’re lucky that the SBC space has gotten really solid over the last couple years. ARM-based, X86-based, and even some RISC-V systems.

The PI isn’t the only only game in town now, and actually gets beat in several different applications depending on use case.

As shareholder value and line-must-go-up takes over the company culture, progress and innovation will happen more and more in the hands of companies and orgs that actually care about their product’s quality and features.

Still disappointing though, the Pi was my first introduction to IoT and low power computing.

dvdnet62 ,
@dvdnet62@feddit.nl avatar

So, what are the alternatives?

empireOfLove2 OP , (edited )
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There’s tons of similar SBC’s out there from Chinese manufacturers, like Orange Pi, Banana Pi, etc; usually using mediatek RISC-V or rockchip ARM processors. They’re all poorly supported on the software and documentation side though and take more work to get going, which has always been where Raspberry shined- nobody else has made embedded computing so easily accessible with click and go OS options and continuous kernel maintenance.
Probably the only board closest to software parity is the pine64 boards… but it’s still not quite as good.

YurkshireLad ,

This is the key point for alternatives. None seem to have the community and support (docs, s/w quality etc) that is remotely close to that of the Raspberry Pi.

MigratingtoLemmy ,

They have more features though, like extra Ethernet, PCIe brackets and M2 slots on the board

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

Those features don’t mean shit if you can’t use a modern OS after a couple of years.

ricdeh ,
@ricdeh@lemmy.world avatar

Why could you not run a modern OS after a couple of years? Those SBC manufacturers did not invent an entirely new processor architecture for their computers, you can just generically compile the kernel (plus maybe some slight device tree work).

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

you can just generically compile the kernel

Not always. I have numerous old now useless SBCs that never merged their shit with the mainline linux kernel so my only option is to run something 10+ years old.

half_built_pyramids ,

Beagle bone

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Guess the community for some of these is about to get much bigger. I’m not in the market for an SBC but this is a big negative against the Pi.

helenslunch ,
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I don’t really recommend any of them anymore, given how much more powerful and versatile x86 processors are and how much their prices have come down very close to SBC levels…

Valmond ,

Orange pi is getting better and better. Far from raspberry though.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I think Pine64 is pretty cool.

impure9435 ,

Unfortunately they use Chinese CPUs (made by Rockchip)

scutiger ,

Which Pi alternatives don’t?

impure9435 ,

Libre Computer offers some SBCs with Amlogic CPUs. I think the Le Potato might be the most popular one. I just ordered an Alta AML-A311D-CC. I'm really excited to try out how well it performs!

hamsterkill ,

Libre Computer itself is a Chinese company, though, no?

MigratingtoLemmy ,

I suppose you’re worried about embedded spyware?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Okay, and?

irreticent ,
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“The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain, according to extensive interviews with government and corporate sources.”

Perhaps they’re worried about something similar happening.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah, that’s certainly a thing, but I’d be surprised if China messed with something like Pine64, that’s a pretty low-value target to spend so many resources attacking. The bigger targets would be large corporations like Amazon and Apple, as well as military institutions and contractors.

It’s certainly a valid concern, but it’s also a pretty minor one.

CalcProgrammer1 ,
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Radxa as well. I have a Rock Pi 4B running as my home server and it has been a great Pi 4 alternative. I also have an Indiedroid Nova with RK3588S which should be better than the Pi 5 bit the GPU drovers aren’t quite there yet. Once GPU drivers are in it should be an incredible board.

astanix ,

lemux.minnix.dev/c/sbcs

There are so many!

CommunityLinkFixer Bot ,

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stevedidwhat_infosec ,

I like your attitude!

Dasnap ,
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I got a ‘LePotato’ a few years back when Pi had stock issues, and it worked quite well as a Pi 4 clone.

pezmaker ,
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Yep, using one to run clipper for my 3d printer with armbian as the OS. It’s been rock solid for me. There obviously some adaptation and discovery when trying to use the io as it’s similar-but-not the same as the raspberry pi io and manipulating it is not the same. But it works, it was available, it was competitively cheap, and it’s been stable

Plus I get to say I’m running my 3d printer on a potato

rustydomino ,
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LePotato is a great budget board for pi-hole.

WormFood ,

I picked up a radxa zero last year and have been quite enjoying it. the hardware is better than a pi zero but costs less. same with a lot of other SBCs

but raspberry pi has a lot of inertia behind it, a lot of software and hardware support. people will keep using them, just like they keep using Ubuntu, even though it’s a soulless corporate husk of what it one was

somethingsomethingidk ,

I had never heard of radxa. Looks awesome!

mynamesnotrick ,

As long as I’m not locked into using their OS on their hardware I’ll still be interested. I have a 3,4&5 doing various tasks around my house and enjoy the little boards.

Valmond ,

Orange PI comes to mind, getting better over time too.

the_doktor ,

Welp. Fuck Raspberry Pi. The entire stock market is one big scam.

werefreeatlast ,

Yeah, expect nothing more than enshitification. That way, if they don’t enshitify like every company does, then we’ll be pleasantly surprised.

circasurvivor ,

The shit winds are coming, Randy

Masamune ,

The nice thing about being a pessimist is that you are always either right, or pleasantly surprised.

CoggyMcFee ,

Not with my luck

Masamune ,

That’s the spirit!

LazyBane ,

Tech companies as soon as they are publicly traded:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1f0b90a0-06a0-4c83-b8d9-7c749eb11134.jpeg

UnaSolaEstrellaLibre ,

They’ve crossed the event horizon of enshitification.

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