Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer

[rcjordan]

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code come to Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi Finally Gets a Great Text Editor—From Microsoft – Review Geek
https://www.reviewgeek.com/71050/raspberry-pi-finally-gets-a-great-text-editor-from-microsoft/

[littleman]

Adding M$ repose to the Pi has been quite the controversy over in the Rpi forums.

[ergophobe]

Probably old news for you LM, but

Official Raspberry Pi Support Arrives For Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime on Pi Day
https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/03/19/official-raspberry-pi-support-arrives-for-netflix-hulu-amazon-prime-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/

[littleman]

This is sort of news to me.  There has been a community based solution for a while.  There is an application called "Pi Apps" that is part of the official OS, but is run by volunteers.   In the Pi Apps repository there has been a widevine compatible version of Chromium for several months.  I guess someone at the Pi foundation decided to just incorporate it into the main distro now.   BTW, widevine is only available on the 32bit OS, so far no one has been able to make it work with 64bit version yet.

[littleman]

Case: Argon ONE M.2 = $45
Board: Raspberry Pi 4 - 8GB = $75
M.2 Drive: 256GB = $30.99
Power Supply: 5.25v 3A USB-C = $10

About $164 as it sits, but I really don't think  the 8GB Pi board is necessary.  A 4GB model would be $20 less.  I have the Pi overclocked to 2Ghz and everything is very responsive at that level, the default OS is very well optimized to be resource efficient.

Just wanted to say that this is still my daily driver and it is still working very nicely for my needs.  It's challenging to calculate the electricity cost savings exactly, but it's likely somewhere between $250 and $350 over the time so far.

[ergophobe]

Sitting here on battery power with our fourth power outage of the week (this one 26 hours and counting)... makes me think about getting more efficient. I suspect a new monitor would be the bigger prize though