Ah, yeah, Telix! I still remember the "doodle-dee doodle-dee doodle-dee" sound it would make when a line on the BBS I ws trying to connect to opened up!
I'm not poo-pooing the Pi by any means; I have several and absolutely love them! The SD card just a known weakness and it's happened to me.
In my opinion, the FujiNet device is the coolest of them all. Inspired by the Spectranet and TI-99/4a TIPI (which contains an RPi Zero), and the lack of such a device for the Atari 8-bit home computers, it delivered that functionality and so much more. It was originally developed for the Ataris, but development has been extended to the C64, Apple ][, even the Coleco Adam!
Ah, yeah, Telix! I still remember the "doodle-dee doodle-dee doodle-dee" sound it would make when a line on the BBS I ws trying to connect to opened up!
But indeed, SD cards are their weakness, and I've had most of the use-cases die on me when the SD card dies. What you said about the power loss and power issues is probably the cause indeed, I thought it had to
do with overclocking, but the root cause is probably the power indeed.
Does anyone know / can suggest some SSD or other hardware that would be better, and how best to add it to the Pi?
Any external HDD/SDD with a USB interface can be used in a Pi, just like any other computer. However, unless you're connecting to a Pi4 (which
has USB 3), you'll be limited to USB 2 speeds.
Thanks, yeah it's just something I've not delved into but can see how
you could hook in an external HDD drive via USB, I'd need to do some homework on how to get the Pi to boot off it.
I figured there must be some SSD and hardware (a hat or interface) that plugs into the Pi that can accommodate a SSD for quick booting, then
folks would use an external HDD connected via USB to add more storage. I think :)
love them! The SD card just a known weakness and it's happened tome.
Same here, I have a bunch, the latest being a Pi3 running RetroPie and
Kodi for my TV.
But indeed, SD cards are their weakness, and I've had most of the
use-cases
die on me when the SD card dies. What you said about the power loss
and power
issues is probably the cause indeed, I thought it had to do with overclocking,
but the root cause is probably the power indeed.
resist) and the case wasn't well designed, it was touching the SD card area and it melted the PLA and a little hole in SD card. Lesson learned.
On Netflix 'The social Dilemma' really shows how bad, bad is. It's mostly interviews with key players from silicon valley and how absolutely afraid they are of what they've created... if they feel it out of control...
That was a freaky documentary, and an important watch!. We don't realize how easily we can be maniuplated without even knowing it's happening!
area and it melted the PLA and a little hole in SD card. Lessonlearned.
Wow! How did it get so hot?
Does anyone know / can suggest some SSD or other hardware that would be better, and how best to add it to the Pi?
On 08 Jan 2022 at 11:10p, McDoob pondered and said...
Any external HDD/SDD with a USB interface can be used in a Pi, just
like any other computer. However, unless you're connecting to a Pi4
(which has USB 3), you'll be limited to USB 2 speeds.
Thanks, yeah it's just something I've not delved into but can see how you could hook in an external HDD drive via USB, I'd need to do some homework on how to get the Pi to boot off it.
I figured there must be some SSD and hardware (a hat or interface) that plugs into the Pi that can accommodate a SSD for quick booting, then
folks would use an external HDD connected via USB to add more storage. I think :)
That's a problem for C64, from what I've heard...I think the SID chip
hasn't
been reverse-engineered...
I know nothing about Gemini, but am aware some people are still playing with Gopher servers. I've never set one up myself. maybe I should
as an exercise some day. :)
I had someone try and enveigle me into setting up pineapple.zapto.org as
a gopher site. It looked like to much effort and beyond my wheel house after having just wrassled PHP and MySQL to a stand still for it.
I know nothing about Gemini, but am aware some people are still playi with Gopher servers. I've never set one up myself. maybe I should
as an exercise some day. :)
I had someone try and enveigle me into setting up pineapple.zapto.org as
a gopher site. It looked like to much effort and beyond my wheel house after having just wrassled PHP and MySQL to a stand still for it.
There are meant to be more gopher sites kicking around now than there
were in its "hey day" By an order of magnitude I believe. But since
that brief flicker of interest I haven't looked sideways at it again.
Spec
Gopher was a lot easier than I thought it would be and I am not the sharpest tool in the shed.
There are a lot of gopher and gemini sites, or capsules, as they are known in the gemini world. The problem is there isn't much there that is good.
On 04-17-22 20:24, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
There are meant to be more gopher sites kicking around now than there
were in its "hey day" By an order of magnitude I believe. But since
that brief flicker of interest I haven't looked sideways at it again.
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