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Do you have a raspberry pi?
What do you use it for?
Did you learn much from using it?
>>55559117
>yes, like 3
>nothing
>no
having version 2 and version 3, i use them for retrogaming (recalbox) and htpc (kodi)
>>55559117
>>55559117
Two in "production use", probably another 4-5 (mostly the older one though) unused.
One is running a backup DNS server, the other is running ham radio apps.
Not really, I run other servers, already do electronics projects, so nothing really new.
I have one, tried to use it as a HTPC. Turns out this thing is a huge fucking meme. Can barely play 8-bit h264 720p video and drops frames and freezes during 10-bit h264 720p video like a motherfucker. It now just collects dust in a drawer.
My advice to anyone planning to buy one: don't. If the massive lack of x86 software compatibility doesn't make you want to fucking tear your eyeballs out, the shitty performance will.
I don't own any single board computer. I'd buy a pi if it had sata and ethernet that isn't running over usb. It would make for a cheap home server with low power usage.
There's pretty much no difference between learning GNU/Linux on a PC oraz a Rapsberry pi. In fact, Raspberry pi is worse, because it requires blobs to even boot, and the data sheets for Broadcom SoCs aren't available to the public.
>>55559222
i wanna fuck this little cluster so hard right now
>>55559262
>massive lack of x86 software compatibility
Who on Earth needs x86 software and for what?
Just recompile it for your architecture.
>>55559274
>Who on Earth needs x86 software and for what?
Everyone who wants to do something beside play angry birds or fiddle with broken open sores software missing numerous features.
>Just recompile it for your architecture.
Tell that to Adobe and Microshaft or at least tell them you'll suck their dicks of they make their products open sores.
>>55559262
>Can barely play 8-bit h264 720p video and drops frames and freezes during 10-bit h264 720p video
If you're using the hardware accelerator, it should be able to handle 8-bit content up to 1080p no problem. If not, I wouldn't expect it to play anything reliably. Why would you try to use it as an HTPC if you have 10-bit content? The limitations of the hardware accelerator are pretty well known.
>>55559274
Seconded.
>>55559117
>Do you have a raspberry pi?
Yes
>What do you use it for?
I use it as a NAS box
>Did you learn much from using it?
Sort of. Not much though
>>55559351
>Microshaft
Gee what's this:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/win10/whatsnew
>Adobe
What adobe programs would you even want to run? Their flagship content editors will run like shit. Flash is shit to begin with.
If you're using a raspberry pi as a general purpose desktop you're doing it very very wrong.
>>55559117
Are we being raided?
>>55559222
What is this software and how do I get it?
>>55559117
I have a pair of 3's. They're used as primary and secondary file share witness's for an Exchange cluster, and tertiary DNS.
Yes
Anime machine
Yes
>>55559117
I used mine to libreboot some laptops.
>Do you have a raspberry pi?
Yes, RP2
>What do you use it for?
Shitpost machine
>Did you learn much from using it?
No, I'm a Linux god.
>>55560655
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
>>55559262
i am truley sorry for your lots
>>55560619
What benefits do you get from installing libreboot?
>>55559262
>Can barely play 8-bit h264 720p video
Are you retarded? It plays 1080p h264 with high bitrates without any hiccups whatsoever.
I've got like 8 Banana Pis locked up in a university lab somewhere.
I had planned on making a cluster out of it for educational purposes, but somehow never found the time.
>>55560726
Freedom
No backdoors in the BIOS
Faster booting
Boot from HTTP
>>55560726
libreboot is open source / free, unlike the standard EFI / BIOS systems, which they state are often backdoored n that lot. go check out their site
>>55560619
Do you know any others devices to use with flashrom? The non-free firmware on the RPi is kinda a turnoff to me, the BBB is kinda expensive. I have a aliexpress CH341A based flashing programmer, but the CS signal is too weak to flash on board.
>>55560726
>>55498303
I got my CHIP the other day. I just have it plugged in across the room and use the little box that it came in as an enclosure (so it doesn't get coated in dust). It has built-in wifi, so I don't have to plug anything else into it. I access it remotely via SSH.
Right now it's just lurking on my favorite irc channels and it's an FTP server. I should be doing more with it.
>>55559117
>Do you have a raspberry pi?
No, but I'm planing to get one.
>What do you use it for?
I'd use it to watch my media over the TV.
>Did you learn much from using it?
I think I will, since I can barealy do any of these things. The best I've done is to connect my TV with my PC over my local network to share some folders and then watch anime/movies, but using the TV's software. Also, I want a PC at the salon (not just my main PC) to use the browser and maybe as a facebook machine.
>>55559117
I use it to brute force passworlds on rar archives with porn
>>55560777
I would've gotten a BBB, but at the time I did not really know much about it. It is ~$20 more than the pi, right?
How much did you pay for that clip?
>>55559262
mine is a 256MB RAM model and plays 1080p flawlessly
also:
>x86 software
you are dumb
>>55559351
>theres people this retarded on /g/
>>55560962
doesn't Pi use ARM architecture, not x86?
>>55560999
Yeah but what in the Linux world are you lacking which is x86 only?
>>55559117
how is the performance on a 35-raspberry pi cluster computer?
>>55561034
33*
>>55561025
Zsnes
I am currently making a seedbox out of my Raspberry Pi 2
I feel a bit stupid since I'm not learning much from it. But it's something to do nevertheless
>>55560898
Not sure about the price, but I don't live in US, so what really make it expensive to me is importation and the conversion (to be fair, it is not THIS expensive, but it would be considering that I would use only to flash libreboot).
I kinda wanted one just to flash libreboot to other people. I flashed my X200 using rayer SPI (basically using the parallel port), but caring around one old computer would be complicated.
If i really can't find another affordable and portable flashing tool, I probably going to get a BBB at some point.
(pic not mine)
>>55561255
I have that same exact usb microsd adapter.
Did you have an R4 for your DS?
I have one. Started out being used as xbmc (now called Jodi) box with raspbmc, stopped because it was shit and a hassle. Sat in drawer for 1 year then became a torrent box (sickrage, couchette) for my Plex installation on main computer. Then got a dedicated Intel NUC that I use for Plex, vpn, samba, torrenting, home automation and general server shit (travel a lot, so Plex is very useful along with VPN and the automated torrents) so the raspberry pi is back in the drawer again. I'll probably throw it away soon as I can't see any foreseeable future for it ever since I got the Intel NUC.
>>55560898
i want you to know that as a security system technician, that clip you have is a very very very interesting tool and i could really cause some trouble with that on any building with access control if i had the time
>>55559117
i own a rasberry pi plantation where there is one master and many slaves (^:
>>55561637
Shouldn't the slaves be BeagleBone Blacks?
>>55559117
https://youtu.be/UbSyxj4YOLk?t=8m46s
>>55559117
what does one even do on a cluster like that
at $35 per pi, that's over $1155 of hardware, ignoring power+cabling+case
>>55561838
It only makes some sense for practicing networking and demonstrations
An equally powerful single computer running virtual machines is not that much cheaper tho
>>55561838
>not buying used pies
>>55561530
Sorry but that pic is not mine
>>55561620
>>55561620
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xsoic+clip.TRS0&_nkw=soic+clip&_sacat=0
Yes, I set it up touse on my TV with Jodi, but then I actually tried it and I was severely disappointed. Exodus and Phoenix suck (or rather, the inherent nature of streaming sucks)
I suppose I could still use it to play files off a USB or something but still, why bother when I can get better playback from mpv?
Don't fall for the meme OP
>>55561838
Pi zeros can probably be used at $5 per unit plus however cheap you can get a usb ethernet adapter for.
I bought one and have no idea what to do with it :(
Gimme ideas guys pls (to learn, I dont know how to do shit)
>>55562005
Raspberry Pi is for projects, there are many more cost effective solutions if you just want something to run Kodi and watch chinese cartoons on, a rooted Amazon Fire stick for example.
>>55562028
Start with some basic bitch projects. Seedbox, FTP server, low power HTPC. There's plenty of resource available for the Pi in particular, copy some random guys wifi robot doorbell cam project or something and see if you get any inspiration for your own project.
I use it as a file server to get 300GB for free and escape the dropbox botnet. It basically uses rsync and a shitty script I wrote to make it automatic. I have apache on it so I can download the files from anywhere, and stream stuff from it over the internet using VLC. It's nice. I'd never touched bash script or apache before doing this so I actually learned a lot.
>>55561025
Good performance
>>55560881
>I'd use it to watch my media over the TV
Use chromecast even that piece of shit is more powerful than a pi.
I use mine to arp spoof public wifis and collect data about the users on them. It's currently hidden in my college's library
>>55562147
>FTP
>2016
I've got a Pi Zero. Only bought it because I got a back in stock notification and $5 so why not? While I'm finding a use for it, I use my other SBC (Creator Ci20) for learning MIPS assembly and occasionally X11 forwarding applications I want to try that aren't precompiled for OS X
I'm using mine as a media player for my car. Surprisingly, you can just plug the miniUSB power source into a $1.00 adapter and it will run just fine.
I set up cron to run VLC and shuffle through about 8GB worth of music on startup. Works well, although the Pi takes about 50 seconds to boot up.
>>55562022
getting a Pi Zero at the moment is a right pain in the dick, since they sell out so fucking fast that places have a 1 per customer limit
cheapest USB->ethernet adapter I've seen is $10
you still need USB OTG cables as well (they're like $2 though)
so you'd be spending $17 for each unit, before shipping, no ethernet cables or power
biggest issue is that you're more than quartering the performance you could get while slightly doing better than halving the price and doubling your effort since Pi Zeros are so stripped down
you could much more easily just get a stack of Pi3s, and I'm pretty sure a 7 pack of them would could beat out the Pi Zero cluster (being multicore machines, needing fewer SD cards, less extras required to plug em up, each core alone is faster than that on the Zero, etc -- shit, if you were kind of retarded/cheap, you could even get them to network to each other over wifi)
>>55562798
shit, I should look into this
>>55562661
what kind of data? I want to steal logins for random sites I've never heard of, then go shitpost under their IDs
>>55559117
Yes, I used it to monitor my UPS and built a simple relay circuit that I connected to GPIO that turns my actual server back on after a power outage. I didn't learn much, setting this up wasn't anything all to new for me. I suppose I learned about its GPIO specifically and about apcupsd.
It's been working great so far and it's been very reliable.┌pi@raspberrypi ~
└$ uptime
02:50:11 up 222 days, 2:24, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.03, 0.05
>>55559262
Mine played 1080p 8b h264 just fine, it's also the first ever model B, so pretty much the slowest of the bunch. I retired it from HTPC duty due to the XBMC interface being too slow (and no 10b playback).
>>55560675
is that yours?
>>55559252
>the other is running ham radio apps.
what apps?
I have 3 recording environmental data, air quality, humidity ect. Am an environmental scientist, but it's mainly just for fun.
I would love to mod a gamecube controller and put the Raspberry Pi inside.
Really I just wanna mod a Raspberry Pi into whatever and make something good for emulation.
It controls my security cameras
Runs on a USB power bank (ghetto UPS)
When the power or WiFi goes off, it uploads the latest images using a 3G modem for as long as the power bank lasts
The IP security camera is also backed up by a USB power bank
When they turn off the power before breaking in to install bugs and stealing my Animes, I can still record them for about an hour
>>55563833
How did you set this up? I would love to have a camera in my room recording, because I have lost a few small items that could have easily been taken by anybody.
Only thing is that I will have a bunch of videos of me fapping haha.
>>55563950
I use a Hikvision DS-2CD2432F-I(W)
http://www.hikvision.com/en/Products_accessries_161_i4919.html#prettyPhoto
It's got infrared night vision.
It is connected to my Raspberry Pi via Ethernet. The Pi itself has WiFi and a 3G modem, both on USB.
Two USB power banks, one for the Raspberry Pi, and one for the camera (plus a 5V to 12V voltage converter).
The camera provides standard MJPEG and H.264 streams.
The Raspberry Pi uploads the latest images to my server. A cronjob there checks for new images and alerts me by e-mail.
>>55560884
This!!! Aren you me
>>55564013
How much does it cost?
Could you explain a little more on how the setup works?
I would only need 1 camera on a corner of my room
> DNS ad blocker for my mobile devices
> Samba share for my network for basic shit
> PlexMediaServer to direct stream content to my Chromecast
> Deluge sometimes
>>55564176
The camera is $99 imported from China
It works standalone too. You can put in a microSD. I just use the Raspberry for the 3G connectivity mainly
About WiFi and 3G:
A simple script pings 8.8.8.8 -- if it's unreachable, it activates the 3G connection
>>55560742
i haven't been able to run video on raspbian at all very well... am i missing codecs or something? The audio plays fine in the background, but the video literally sits at the loading image and never moves..
>>55564242
I want to set up the camera to see what people do in my room, so I can catch anybody doing or taking shit.
What would you recommend for me? I currently have Unlimited but gonna drop to 1TB cap so I don't want to do anything that will waste a lot of data.
>>55559117
>Do you have a raspberry pi?
Yes, the original version.
>What do you use it for?
Running a power efficient web server 24/7 for personal convenience and demoing websites for people using dyn dns. Also has Samba and other shit on it.
>Did you learn much from using it?
Not much as I'm already a heavy linux and freebsd user. I mainly learned about it's limitations. The first major one being if it does a dirty shutdown it can fuck with the sd card. A couple times I'd have to take the card out after a power outtage and dick around before it decided it will boot again. The second is that write speed on sd cards is fucking abysmal. I used a class 4 card and sqlite and it would take almost 2 seconds for a db insert. Running on a class 10 is a lot faster. MySQL works faster too due to caching, but isn't always ideal for small projects.
>>55562661
How does one do this?
I have two. My first raspberry pi has been used for many things, first kodi, then when I got other devices for that I ran raspbian on it and ssh'd in to do various things whenever I needed to. Now I am using it to play internet radio.
Raspberry Pi 3 is used for Kodi now.
I didn't really learn much. I learned more from having my own server and setting things up on it. I just applied that knowledge (using apt-get, compiling things, the basics) to using my pi.
I'm planning to go live in a van. I want to have the pi set up to run kodi off of public wifi. I also want to obtain a shitty netbook and run Linux on it. I feel more confident in doing that now that I've had like 5 years of practice fucking around with that stuff. I wouldn't call myself an expert, I just know how to use google and remember how I did things.
>>55559117
I'm -attempting- to use mine as my own VPN. I spent about 3 hours working on it and ran into a few issues towards the end.
I'll get it eventually. It's a pretty neat device though.
>>55561065
Use retroarch instead
i have one, http server hosting the weekly thing a friend of mine writes for like 8 of us.
>>55560777
I used a buspirate for all my needs
>>55559262
>>55564344
Look at LibreELEC or OSMC instead. Kodi can handle this stuff just fine.
>>55564206
Dear lord! DNS ad Blocker!
>can run on rp2 and be powered by my NAS's usb ports.
Know what I'm getting soon.
>>55565507
that much of a slow typer?
What can a raspberry pi even do that you can't do with every fucking phone?
Most people I know turned it into a retro gaming console, which is pretty stupid, considering you can just plug your phone into a TV and play the games a lot faster.
>>55565698
Plugging my phone into the TV is extremely inconvenient though. I use my phone while I use the Raspberry Pi to watch my illegal TV streams. I use my phone to watch the same streams when I'm out and about sometimes. I even use the phone as a remote for Kodi, which honestly is a lot fucking easier than trying to control it while it's running on my phone.
>>55565698
>phone has gpio pins
>phone has ethernet
>phone can have gahnoo/loonix proper on it
just don't buy it if your normie interests don't intercept with the rpi functionality.
>>55565698
If it isn't for you then it isn't for you.
>>55565698
you can put it next to your shaved legs and get fawned over by virgins on gee
>>55565698
Did you even read the thread? See:
>>55559222
>>55560619
>>55561255
>>55562661
>>55563062
>>55563387
>>55563833
>>55564206
>>55564501
>>55559402
>I use it as a NAS box
i seen a guy on utube take a 4tb drive and attach it to a pi and downloaded some custom software & made a nas. very cool.
>>55560858
Why use that to lurk IRC? Isn't it easier to just do that on the computer from which you SSH?
>>55567113
because he may not keep said computer on at all times
i have one for an always on torrent box, for seeding and maintaining my ratio
My fucking friend uses a pi, be it raspberry or banana, for literally every stupid idea he gets into his head.
> made a Media box that can't play half his content because it's too intense
> got ANOTHER pi that automatically downsamples Video as it gets downloaded
> YET ANOTHER PI he uses as a headless torrent box
>spergs about "heat and power savings" over just using a small form factor PC for all this
>>55566778
The Pi is not that well suited as a NAS because it lacks SATA and its USB is slow
The Banana Pro has SATA
>>55567345
You can get significant heat and power savings for small computing tasks like this. I personally use full desktop PC as a headless server machine to handle all my "batch processing" and "network service" tasks.
>>55559252
>using an rpi in production
absolutely consider an heroing.
>>55568684
Welcome to 2016 when fault tolerance and high reliability is implemented in software, not hardware.
>>55568638
It steams video perfectly for me anyways
I have the b+ model
Attached a motor controller to one and hooked it up to a chassis.
Had it drive around and look for open wifi to torrent off of for cheap laughs.
I wish i did more robotics with mine, but I just always end up give up on learning more about it and just wind up defaulting to older discrete components and design anyways.
>>55559117
>Do you have a raspberry pi?
2B
>What do you use it for?
dhcp server, git remote repository, wakeonlan server, also planning to use it as torrent machine when i buy bigger sd card
>Did you learn much from using it?
no
>>55568638
the Banana Pro's SATA is just an adapter that goes over the same usb 2.0 interface so its slow af senpai. You're better off with the Pi and a usb/sata adapter.
Anybody here willing to sale a newer model Pi? Leave your email.
Just now reading that Im trying to configure FreeBSD with mate-desktop in one.
>>55560619
I was always interested in libreboot just dont know how to install it.
>>55565584
I used the buspirate once, but it was too slow (took about 30 minuter to make a dump), but I heard that it could be due to a old firmware or version of flashrom. How it was to you?
>>55569502
It is not hard to install, but you need the proper tools. Do you already have any Libreboot compatible computer?
>>55559554
He made it himself I think
I have 4 Pi's (bought one, got others from friends/winning). The one I bought was an RPi3, and he's running SSH just for a git server for local private development. The other three are paper weights right now, but I plan on installing Kali on one for shits n giggles
1 Kodi,2 Media samba server temperature humind monitor,3 (Rpi1) Piratebox
Yes
Retro Pie (Retro Video games)
Learned basic linux directory at the time
Lads, what's the best SBC for emulation?
>>55559117
pihole
i think pihole is also a dns cache not sure....
I have one 2B with an external 2TB harddrive running Kodi.
Though after reading this thread I'm probably going to buy another one for >>55562661.
And I'm gonna buy not one, but 4 usb wifi dongles, put one of them into monitor mode, set up a python script that uses the first adapter to continuously scan and evaluate available public networks and dynamically autoconnect the remaining 3 wifi sticks to the juiciest ones it finds and start poisoning them.
And I'm going to carry it everywhere with me and it's going to be glorious.
what can the rpi 3 do that the odroid c2 can't do better
>>55564206
Why plex and not emby or plain dlna?
I use my Pi 2 to get Internet from my WiFi Router in the hallway to my Switch in the living room.
>>55559117
Yes.
Emulation.
No.
Seriously, RPi isn't good for learning embedded systems. Get a real dev board for that and do some bare metal stuff.
>>55569010
Won't writing to the SD kill the card? I tried to use mine as a torrent box writing to a seagate personal cloud NAS but I can't figure out how to give it direct write access
>>55572034
Not him, but you can connect a USB HDD or flash drive to an RPi for mass storage and torrenting no problem...
>>55559117
That cluster has about as much compute power as a mondern pentium g44000
>>55569010
Just for seeding.
>>55559222
I always wonder, why build a cluster out of them? What do you even do with a cluster of pi's like that?
Also I was wondering about getting a pi v3 model and maybe building something like a pyra out of it. However I have no idea how to build a tiny custom keyboard for it.
>>55573234
heh if you want a cheap cluster you should stick with x86 and buy several of these
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/NCYhyf
>>55573234
It's mostly to learn HOW to cluster, not for practical purposes (at least with RPIs). You learn about how the nodes communicate and how the master schedules out tasks for the nodes. Really interesting stuff actually.
>>55573388
>comparing a $35 pi to a $300 build
Why the fuck do you even post, you fucking moron.
>>55573486
>cluster
no, your the moron
>>55573539
>your the moron
>>55573234
Seems like a cheap way to learn about distributed computing. Not sure if you need 35 though...
>>55573483
So essentially it's a multitasking rig where tasks are off-loaded onto 1 or multiple pi's?
>>55573566
correct
>>55573483
>and how the master schedules out tasks for the nodes.
How is this implemented? Are you using a message queue like rabbitmq?
>>55562028
i put raspbian on it , looks good works good . playing around with it command line and shit.
first i bought it for kodi , but shit started to fail.
Yes. Once.
Used for school project to build a automated dildo disguised as a response indicator. Fun times
>>55565482
cool , keep us updated aboutt your advernture.
i want to see your van , when you get one.
>>55559222
>all this ultra moe animu bullshit applied to every little thing
Just end yourself.
>>55562028
go to torrentsite kickass , typ in rasp .
there you go 312 of books , magazines about what you can do with your raspy .
enough projects to get you busy.
>>55573388
just kill yourself
>>55559222
I'm literally a networking retard but how do I get all of these to join a Wifi network through ethernet with another component?
>>55574016
Just plug a PI supported wifi dongle into the master and set 'er up.
>>55574036
but I don't want to buy 10 of those dongles. I'd rather get a router I can use to plug in 10 of them into via ethernet.
>>55573999
>being mad about being able to actually do real work on x86 processors
Yes
Nothing
No
>>55559117
>Do you have a raspberry pi?
I have a pi3
>What do you use it for?
It acts as a router between my devices and the apartment's wireless AP (I have a rather shitty uni apartment arrangement at the moment)
>Did you learn much from using it?
I didn't know much to begin with, so yes.
I learned that I should RTFM before installing packages.
I learned that when the maintainer of the apartment's network insists that every node is given static IP, you ought to verify it yourself before blindly implementing NFS.
I learned how invasive Systemd's takeover of every component can be and how it made a good portion of the solutions and manuals I find online useless. I used to think people were just overreacting, but after writing a dozen service files of my own I finally understand the outrage.
I also learned that my own private little network can be compromised by no fault of my own if everyone else in the network literally can't stop clicking on every damn ad they encounter. It taught me some important and basic networking concepts like DMZ.
>>55574066
Just get a 10 port switch for the PIs to communicate with each other and then get ONE dongle for the master. They aren't all supposed to have internet access. They just need to be able to communicate with each other.
>>55574066
Spoiler alert: Pis are just regular computers except that you are obligated to run a shitty OS on them that runs slowly. If you want to connect computers on your LAN, just do it the regular way.
>>55574118
you didn't take my advice
please go reread
>>55573486
well... code not working on ARM processors is actually a thing...
>>55574400
But they are for different purposes, which is why the price is an order of magnitude apart.
>>55560759
It clears the hardware whitelist as well.
I know this will let you replace the wifi but I've always wondered if you could also upgrade the cpu after librebooting?
My guess is that newer intel cpus aren't supported due to microcode and shit. Has anyone tryed this?
>>55567113
It uses less power than running a computer all day
>>55574561
i didn't konw about the >>>/global/ things
