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R5500.00 for the board with WIN 10, for me, a better proposition to buy a similar priced laptop.
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R5500.00 for the board with WIN 10, for me, a better proposition to buy a similar priced laptop.
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Unfortunately yes, only got to the page with prices after I posted, the R/$ is only going to make it worse.
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No thanks happy with the Pi 4. Will get me more Pi's and a bigger SD card.
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For that price, my Pi4 is more than perfect. Eina.
At that price? what a waste. Rather get a USB network card for your Pi. (Or another Pi. Or another 4 Pi's)
Oh, btw, re the original topic of this thread, what are you doing with your Pi?
I FINALLY setup a Retropie install and my 5 year old is loving it. Got 2 cheapie usb controllers from diyelectronics and we've been co-opping "Goof Troop" on SNES. (pro-tip, use Retropie's "save game" feature to save a lot of stress - I found this way too late.)
For single player, he's enjoying Sonic (Megadrive) and Pac Man. The crappy graphics don't bug him at all, even tho I've let him play a little bit of some indie racing game on XBox 360, which I thought would raise his expectations.
I FINALLY setup a Retropie install and my 5 year old is loving it. Got 2 cheapie usb controllers from diyelectronics and we've been co-opping "Goof Troop" on SNES. (pro-tip, use Retropie's "save game" feature to save a lot of stress - I found this way too late.)
For single player, he's enjoying Sonic (Megadrive) and Pac Man. The crappy graphics don't bug him at all, even tho I've let him play a little bit of some indie racing game on XBox 360, which I thought would raise his expectations.
Confused. You said:"
Would make a sweet media center and general internet TV box. Not a bad option for a multi-purpose pfsense / NAS box too."
None of those need x86. IN fact, those are things you generally don't install on x86 platforms.
Furthermore, media center and NAS are things the Pi is particularly good at.
(I could be wrong about pfsense but I doubt it. The first time I encountered it, it was running on a router).
Nice suggestions, thanks. I do have Mame installed, but was more for me than him. Forgot about the "non-violent" options.Nice!
2 player Bomberman on SNES for the win!!
Also some mame classics would probably go down well - like Popeye and Frogger. And don't forget Bubble Bobble.
Edit: thanks for the link, will join the other thread.
elf_lord_ZC5
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Maybe, when the Rand/Dollar exchange rate becomes sane, yes. How much they want fo a case for that, I wonder, and where would you get one.
And the main issue with these other boards is always software / driver support. The Pi is ridiculously well supported by every application and OS in existence, it seems. The less well known boards, not so much.
AND hardware support, as you point out - 3rd party stuff like cases.
For example, this is awesome, but it only supports Pi and one other SBC I think:
ROCK Pi SATA HAT Targets ROCK Pi 4 & Raspberry Pi 4 NAS - CNX Software
Radxa ROCK Pi SATA HAT expansion board is designed for 4-bay NAS based on Raspberry Pi 4 or ROCK Pi 4 SBC using either USB 3.0 or PCIe host connection.
www.cnx-software.com
Oh ok.
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Has anybody tried X2Go on a Pi?
I have a Pi4 I was gifted that I'm using for light stuff, web browsing etc. and I had the thought of using it as a "remote desktop" for my main machine. X2Go seemed like the right tool, so I have installed it and it is working.
My main machine runs Mint and the Pi has Raspbian minimal that I added to( Cinnamon, Chromium,X2go client and a few other things.)
I had to make a "dummy" vga plug for the server so that the resolution could be set, if it doesn't "see" a monitor it defaults to the lowest.
I have set the resolution on the server to match the monitor of the Pi.
The problem is that it has an annoying "flash" of the desktop background every now and then on the Pi and text is not as clear as it could be.
Any ideas?
I have a Pi4 I was gifted that I'm using for light stuff, web browsing etc. and I had the thought of using it as a "remote desktop" for my main machine. X2Go seemed like the right tool, so I have installed it and it is working.
My main machine runs Mint and the Pi has Raspbian minimal that I added to( Cinnamon, Chromium,X2go client and a few other things.)
I had to make a "dummy" vga plug for the server so that the resolution could be set, if it doesn't "see" a monitor it defaults to the lowest.
I have set the resolution on the server to match the monitor of the Pi.
The problem is that it has an annoying "flash" of the desktop background every now and then on the Pi and text is not as clear as it could be.
Any ideas?
I'd install Remmina, if only just to test. Used to use it for VNC, RDP etc. Haven't needed it for a while but it was pretty good.
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Thanks for that!
Much better and a lot smoother and not a flicker in sight. It also does the scaling properly which helps.
Operation minimal lounge is looking even more possible.
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Can you mount a pCloud drive using Rclone automatically?
Question - any good reason to use pCloud instead of Mega? Just had a brief look at the site - pCloud only gives 10GB free and doesn't seem to have any features Mega doesn't. (OK, Mega doesn't map to a drive but that's hardly a game breaker. Their sync client has options to auto-sync any folder (and you can choose multiple folders too) - which is essentially the same thing, functionally).
AND - they give 50GB free storage. AND they've now been around for 6 years. Maybe 7? So they have a decent track record and unlikely to just disappear.
(Of course they have full backend encryption, end-to-end connection encryption etc, secure file/folder sharing, online editing of some files, official, well supported Linux client to go with the usual Win/Mac/Android)
Been very happy using their service, but I'm always open to other options, if better. Hence the question.
Edit: just looked at the pCloud paid options - OUCH!
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I don't trust Mega for long term storage and I believe they can just terminate your account or drop you to 15GB after 180 days or something on the free plan.
Mega (service) - Wikipedia
The pCloud lifetime plans are quite cheap and even cheaper around black Friday/cyber Monday. There's also Icedrive that's even cheaper but they're a very new company https://icedrive.net/plans.
Well, I've been using them (in conjunction with Google Drive) for over 5 years now with no issues.I don't trust Mega for long term storage and I believe they can just terminate your account or drop you to 15GB after 180 days or something on the free plan.
Mega (service) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
The pCloud lifetime plans are quite cheap and even cheaper around black Friday/cyber Monday. There's also Icedrive that's even cheaper but they're a very new company https://icedrive.net/plans.
Hm, forgot about Google pricing - it's quite cheap nowadays.
IMO, Google Drive for most things, Mega for stuff I'm not sure I want to "trust" Google with or will use up my free space too fast. Best of both worlds.
Ain't nobody gonna serve a warrant on Mega. Not that it would help, your data is server side encrypted. They can't see it.
AfricanTech
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Which USB controllers did you get? The SNES ones?
If so, have you tried them with MAME games on the Pi?
AfricanTech
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For MAME on PC?
I've got a wireless XBox controller but I find that there's too much lag to play Pengo effectively - ideally I'd want one of these but at 55USD excluding shipping it's rather pricey
