That's a very good deal if it's working.
cmnybo
joined 2 years ago
Maybe people will start torrenting youtube rips if they somehow manage to kill ad blockers.
The power usage will be a bit higher, but it will also have higher performance. They can have 2.5G ethernet and a couple of NVMe SSDs. The Raspberry Pi 5 only has one lane of PCIe 2.0, so it will be very bandwidth limited if you use a PCIe switch to connect a 2.5G NIC and an SSD.
There are also a lot of mini PCs that are comparable in price to a Raspberry Pi 5 once you factor in the cost of a case, SD card, and power supply for the Pi.
Make sure you have a font installed that supports emoji such as the Noto emoji font.
The goal is to get away from US tech companies.
I installed some CAT6a years ago so I could upgrade and I'm still on 1G. I should have looked at the power requirements first. The hardware that was affordable at the time used 10 watts per port to run 10G over copper. I should have run fiber too.
What's the battery life like? High power consumption has been one of the major issues with previous Linux phones.
Nobody needs a $25k display for a conference call. A normal phone will be good enough. Most of the time video is not even needed.
That 3D display would be cool for CAD or 3D modelling if the resolution is high enough though.
The main issue is the lack of software support. They keep making each new Android version more bloated so you can't update more than once or maybe twice. If it wasn't for that, you could keep using the same 5G phone until they shut down the 5G network as long as the battery is replaceable.
I wish Android was more like Debian where it's lightweight, uses stable versions of software and runs well on old hardware.
The last movie I watched in a theater was Top Gun Maverick.
At least with TV, you could tape your shows and fast forward through the commercials.