I use a pi 5 as a basic browser/media streamer in my living room. It handles most streaming just fine, but for some reason YT is sluggish. I have to reboot the pi every other day or so, otherwise YT crashes the browser. Other sites seem to work fine though.

Common word, borderline nonsense usage.

Oooooooooh.

Is it too rare of a word in English? If so, sorry if it caused any confusions. "<.<

Your use of "spacious" is vastly explosive.

As per the previous post from some months back, linked at the end of the OP, I had considered a Raspberry Pi set up as a laptop replacement could be smaller than one. But as someone in the older post had pointed out, it could end up being as big as one. And as explained in the OP also, I got the chance to test that out and I could finally test that out, and end up seeing it indeed can take a generous amount of space.

Makes sense now?

WTF does that even mean?

The pi is pretty slow too, compared to a basic x86 laptop. I use a Logitech K40 wireless keyboard (USB dongle, not bluetooth) that has a built in trackpad though. So that gets rid of the mouse and two cables, and you can actually use it in your lap.

I have a 400

Also totally isn't the laptop bag folded in half 🫣

"Look how spacious my set-up is"

Mousepad is half hanging off the table

Even in a laptop bag it gets rather big, though much lighter than the laptop that I would originally put in this bag. I think the biggest problem though, and that no smaller screen or keyboard would help, is that the cables take a lot of space, proportionally far more than the hardware.

im interested in that too but ill probably end up going with the zero just cause raspberry pi seems a little more established. so many cool things to choose from!

The zero is a little cheaper, and I wanted to try making games that would run on it and eventually make a game console thing out of it. Part of the challenge is the lower spec i guess. If it's got more power than the n64 its good enough for me!

Any reason why it needs to be a zero? You can typically find the older pi models used for cheap on your local marketplaces.

If you want to use one, go ahead, it's powerful enough for most non-media apps. You can also consider the PocketBeagle 2 which is more aimed at embedded use, with several a/d pins, a coprocessors, etc.

if i remember from my time with a pi0, you can definitely run up to snes/gba games on it. think i played through ultima1 for the c64 on it during a cross country bus trip. you can also put a cheap usb wifi adapter in it to get it online.

Yeah, thats sorta what I figured. It is marginally cheaper, and hopefully it won't be as affected by the current market? either way it'll probably be fun to play around with and similar enough to the zero 2W that i could experiment with it for a bit and switch over when the 2W comes back in stock. I certainly dont need the processing power, I basically just wanted to load some minimal linux OS, and try to play low spec games on it. thanks for the heads up

The Pi Zero made it's debut in 2015, and it shares a 32bit processor with it's big brother from 2012. It's nearly antique at this point. As far as I am aware, the processor is no longer supported by Debian, and since Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian you will likely see the end of OS updates very soon. (You are obviously free to install whatever compatible OS is available, but do realize Debian/RPiOS is what most of them are based on)

But... if you know what kind of project you are doing, know that it doesn't take a lot of processing power, and it won't be connected to the internet, go for it. I have one that runs a little samba server so I can quickly throw temp files on the network and pull them into other devices.

The Zero W has an official obsolescence statement that it will remain in production until 2030.

It works, but it's very slow.

Ah, didn't realize it was so demanding

RaspberryPi 4 is the minimum recommended for home assistant.

• Pihole
• PiVPN
• Docker stack of *arr programs (Sonarr, Radarr, etc)
• Lyrion Music Server host/client
• Home Assistant - nvm you need a pi 4 or better