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Raspberry Pi

The only gripe I have with the RPi is that you need a full-time high speed internet connection to get one set up. For the rest of us, unless you can borrow someone's internet for half a day, the data charges can offset the low price of the hardware.
 
I got my install package from the Armbian website. Yes, you have to download about half a gig for an image, but after that, you're pretty much set. I just extracted the raw file and dd-ed if to a SD card. Booted right up.
 
Chuck(G) said:
I got my install package from the Armbian website. Yes, you have to download about half a gig for an image, but after that, you're pretty much set. I just extracted the raw file and dd-ed if to a SD card. Booted right up.
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Half a gig is what I'd like to limit all my usage to for a month. :)

I did download about that much one time only to have it not work and have to do it again.
 
1.8 GB is pretty light for nearly an entire month of internet usage.

I used 140 GB in May and 117 GB so far in June. My yearly usage is usually close to 1 TB.
 
Well, I'm setting up my OP PC to take the place of my Neoware slim client mailserver. I don't know if SD card is the right way to go for storage--I may move to a USB device. But it runs fine "headless" and streams Internet radio just fine and does pretty much everything else I need. Setup, as always, is a bit messy, but it wouldn't be any better with a standard PC.

And it uses less than 5 watts. That's more than I can say for the modem and router it's connected to.
 
Oh not this nonsense again. The only people who have ever used power-of-ten measures of computer storage are disk manufacturers with deceitful advertising. 1 GB = 1073741824 bytes, and "kibi/mibi/gibi" aren't real words.
 
commodorejohn said:
1 GB = 1073741824 bytes, and "kibi/mibi/gibi" aren't real words.
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Are you absolutely sure?

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[TH="bgcolor: #F2F2F2, colspan: 3, align: center"]Customary prefix[/TH]
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[TH="bgcolor: #F2F2F2, align: center"]Name[/TH]
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[TD]kibi[/TD]
[TD]Ki[/TD]
[TD]2[SUP]10[/SUP][/TD]
[TD]1024[SUP]1[/SUP][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1024[/TD]
[TD]≈ 1.02×10[SUP]3[/SUP][/TD]
[TD][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-"]kilo[/URL][/TD]
[TD]k[SUP][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#cite_note-wnwtd-16"][13][/URL][/SUP] or K[/TD]
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[TD]mebi[/TD]
[TD]Mi[/TD]
[TD]2[SUP]20[/SUP][/TD]
[TD]1024[SUP]2[/SUP][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1048576[/TD]
[TD]≈ 1.05×10[SUP]6[/SUP][/TD]
[TD][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-"]mega[/URL][/TD]
[TD]M[/TD]
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[TD]gibi[/TD]
[TD]Gi[/TD]
[TD]2[SUP]30[/SUP][/TD]
[TD]1024[SUP]3[/SUP][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1073741824[/TD]
[TD]≈ 1.07×10[SUP]9[/SUP][/TD]
[TD][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga-"]giga[/URL][/TD]
[TD]G[/TD]
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[TD]tebi[/TD]
[TD]Ti[/TD]
[TD]2[SUP]40[/SUP][/TD]
[TD]1024[SUP]4[/SUP][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1099511627776[/TD]
[TD]≈ 1.10×10[SUP]12[/SUP][/TD]
[TD][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera-"]tera[/URL][/TD]
[TD]T[/TD]
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[TD]pebi[/TD]
[TD]Pi[/TD]
[TD]2[SUP]50[/SUP][/TD]
[TD]1024[SUP]5[/SUP][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1125899906842624[/TD]
[TD]≈ 1.13×10[SUP]15[/SUP][/TD]
[TD][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peta-"]peta[/URL][/TD]
[TD]P[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]exbi[/TD]
[TD]Ei[/TD]
[TD]2[SUP]60[/SUP][/TD]
[TD]1024[SUP]6[/SUP][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1152921504606846976[/TD]
[TD]≈ 1.15×10[SUP]18[/SUP][/TD]
[TD][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exa-"]exa[/URL][/TD]
[TD]E[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]zebi[/TD]
[TD]Zi[/TD]
[TD]2[SUP]70[/SUP][/TD]
[TD]1024[SUP]7[/SUP][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1180591620717411303424[/TD]
[TD]≈ 1.18×10[SUP]21[/SUP][/TD]
[TD][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetta-"]zetta[/URL][/TD]
[TD]Z[/TD]
[/TR]
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[TD]yobi[/TD]
[TD]Yi[/TD]
[TD]2[SUP]80[/SUP][/TD]
[TD]1024[SUP]8[/SUP][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]1208925819614629174706176[/TD]
[TD]≈ 1.21×10[SUP]24[/SUP][/TD]
[TD][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotta-"]yotta[/URL][/TD]
[TD]Y[/TD]
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Well, commisions don't define words, people do (which is why the Oxford Dictionary simply updates its dictionary with what people say, not with what they think people should say). So in this I'll side with commodorejohn. When that's said, I've been using GiB etc. for years, but I've tired of it. I'm back in the original camp, and so are my coworkers and, by most of my customer's documents, so are a lot of other people.
But I'll write 1.44MB too, even though it's really not here or there, re. what Chuck(g) said. Becsuse it is what that format is known as.
 
In general I don't use the official symbols.

When discussing projects with people often they can't remember if it's "GiB" or "GB" that's 1024 anyway, or often don't know the difference, and if I emailed my coworker telling him about this new project I got with '8 GiB of storage!" he'd ask "WTF is a GIB?". So it just makes communication harder for very little gain. If I was doing electrical engineering, then I'd certainly go standards-compliant, but you know it'll all get tossed out the window when the marketing department gets it anyway.

My usage varies from 40GB to 150GB a month depending on how many new TV series my wife has found on Netflix HD - here in NZ we finally got unlimited internet plans that aren't painfully slow / throttled so we moved to one of those. You might be able to find people selling Pi's preconfigured? I still haven't bought any.
 
My recommendation for anyone taking up CJ on his offer that you send him a big USB flash or SD card and have him just download several distros--they're all a little different and it's nice to have a choice. PPAs also matter; the Arbian-define PPAs don't include WINE, for example, while the Orangepi.org ones do. (Win32 applications can run just fine on an OrangePi, as strange as it seems).
 
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