• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Or antenna headers. And don’t tell me I can just DIY scratch up the PCB and make a solder point 1mm in diameter between two other circuits I’m not supposed to touch.

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        11 months ago

        Just curioys, why wouldn’t you buy say a 50€ thinkcentre instead or a raspberry?

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          11 months ago

          hmmm I’m not sure now 😅

          I’m using the RPi for other projects but this one was for a server and I might not have put much thought for the hardware

          But I’ve never seen a mini PC that cheap though?

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            11 months ago

            It depends on when big companies throws out their pcs, like when they are 5 years old, or so it feels.

            I did a quick search on ebay, it probably depends on where you live but I stumbled upon a 55€ one here

            The problem with tinkcentres (tiny here) is that they are really easy to open and service, usually has place for a 2’5 drive plus a nvme and had two sodim slots, plus some funky stuff like small cards and CD player and so on so eventually it might cost more than 50€…

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              11 months ago

              The problem with tinkcentres (tiny here) is that they are really easy to open and service,

              Is that really a problem 😅

              I’m actually in France, but somehow ebay is not really in my mind, so u totally miss those, I’ll have a look because it sure looks like less trouble to go this way than with the raspberry pi, even the OS as it would be a 64bits and not ARM (if I looked well on the specs)

              (edit) also, now that I look at my setups I realize that I don’t even use much of the GPIo on the rpi4 because I have a stupid amount of Esp32 spread everywhere in my place that fulfill the need

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                11 months ago

                Quel coïncidence :-D ! Bordeaux ici !

                Do you control the esps from your network? I did some simple sever controlled I/O with esp8266 (IIRC, the first popular esp).

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        11 months ago

        The comment was about the 500, which currently has non-working M2, as a money grab apparently.