| daftykins | good afty gang | 11:34 |
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| MattJ | \o | 11:34 |
| daftykins | woohoo one replacement pcengines APU4 pfSense machine arrived this morning from LiniTX - my replacement after the first was faulty | 11:34 |
| m0nkey_ | any of you lot got one of these Raspberry Pi 400s? I was thinking of picking one up to drive my 3D printer and to have a simple computer on my maker desk. | 16:08 |
| daftykins | no sir, but i think i read they only come in the lower RAM configuration in case that matters | 16:10 |
| m0nkey_ | they come with 4GB, should be enough. | 16:13 |
| zxm-pi | i don't have a pi 400 but i do have 2 pi keyboards which are the same type of keyboard sans the pi part. quite nice. the 3 port usb hub built in is very nice | 16:18 |
| zxm-pi | not a fan of the half size arrow keys or the lack of pgup pgdn home end insert but they are hard to find on small keyboards | 16:19 |
| m0nkey_ | i wouldn't be using it much beyond octoprint, web browsing and youtube. so they keyboard part would be used infrequently enough to be an issue. | 16:20 |
| m0nkey_ | i may also compile the odd bit of arduino code too | 16:22 |
| knightwise | hey peepz | 18:10 |
| daftykins | o/ | 18:11 |
| knightwise | playing around with helium linux | 18:12 |
| knightwise | on an old chromebook :) | 18:12 |
| knightwise | daftykins: do you have any experiences with installing snaps and running them via the command line ? | 18:12 |
| daftykins | i don't touch snaps personally! | 18:12 |
| knightwise | i think i need to figure out a way to add the snaps to my path | 18:13 |
| waveform | m0nkey_, I can't say I particularly like the pi400's keyboard (I'm more partial to the deafening clack of cherry blues reverberating around the room), but as a machine it surpasses even the pi4 due to the better cooling on the C0 stepping of the SoC, and the stonking huge plate of metal that serves partly as heat-sink and partly as keyboard-stiffener | 19:52 |
| daftykins | ooh didn't know it got a revision | 19:53 |
| waveform | m0nkey_, as a further vote of confidence: my 6y/o daughter used one during lock-down to connect (over google meet) to her classroom -- it (just about) handled ~30 hyperactive primary school kids all bouncing around in front of their cameras which genuinely impressed me :) | 19:53 |
| waveform | (just don't expect to manage chroma-key to change your background to "spaaaace" like one of the kids frequently did!) | 19:54 |
| waveform | daftykins, yes the CM4 and the 400 both use the C0 stepping of the 2711 which is rather better at thermal management (and a couple of other things) than the SoC in the "regular" pi4 | 19:55 |
| daftykins | :D | 19:55 |
| m0nkey_ | ok, thats good to know. i'll only be using it to manage the 3d printer, program an arduino or two and maybe some youtube/web browsing | 20:22 |
| m0nkey_ | or a just buy a 8gb pi kit | 20:26 |
| m0nkey_ | more ram would be nice, but not a massive requirement | 20:27 |
| m0nkey_ | huh, so you can install regular ubuntu on it too | 20:30 |
| zxm-pi | loads of oses you can bung on a pi these days. | 20:32 |
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