• frezik@midwest.social
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    1 year ago
    • Kiosks – my makerspace uses one for guest signin
    • Pihole – make your life less ad-infested without browser plugins
    • Octoprint – run your 3d printers
    • Home voice assistant without relying on a big company of any kind, or sending them sounds of you having sex

    The first models were rough on reliability, but they got a lot better around Model 2B and onward. SD cards with A1 or A2 rating help a lot.

    • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      I don’t need any of those things tho. Mostly what I need is decent IO throughput which was unnecessarily constrained on earlier pis by poor design choices. The pi4 is the first to really shine in that regard.

      I have a pi2 and I used it as a libreelec media center, and it was Ok in that capacity, but it’s far too slow to transfer larger files regardless of how you do it (all relies on a slow usb interface).