It looks like a big improvement over the 4 but sadly needs active cooling or it throttles under load quickly. It has a new form factor which requires a new case too. Still there are a lot of great additions that make it a good upgrade.

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    1 year ago

    They are a hard sell over tiny x86 systems still. Even my 3d printers don’t use the gpio and the only thing I have used it for before, which is flashing coreboot to a laptop, is no longer needed both due to having a USB device for it as well as flasher only actually being needed the first time and some edge cases.

    Most server things I just run vms on xcp-ng and containers on the vms. I’m also trialling nixos on some netbooks that were free for some misc stuff like home automation.

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      1 year ago

      For me it’s about power consumption. I wish there were more powerful arm based socs available. x86 is so inefficient compared to anything risc based that it feels wasteful.

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        Exactly, for me RPI was supposed to be about low power consumption. Rpi4 is stretching it already, rpi5 with cooling won’t be worth it .