I was under the assumption that Raspberry Pi was a US based company, but I just found out they are European and almost all made in Wales.

It’s probably the most European computer you can buy, with a massive following of enthusiastic developers creating alternatives for all the cloud services we are trying to stop using.

This has confirmed my choice to try and replace the US based cloud services my family and I are currently using.

  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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    1 month ago

    I’m curious what you’re doing on an SBC that explicitly requires x86, though?

    Not parent, but I used ARM SBCs for a bit, and while it was nice, my x86 experience with a nuc has been much, much better. HW acceleration works on some RPIs, and sort of worked on my Orange Pi 5+, but only when using an ancient kernel which had some hacks (like, kernel debug messages saying “DISABLE THIS FOR RELEASE!”). And afaik RPI 5 doesn’t support hw encoding (not to mention no SSD support).

    Basically, my experience was that the hardware was neat if sometimes limited, the energy consumption was great, but the software/kernel support…ugh. YMMV of course.