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<div dir="ltr">I have one thanks to Christmas - I enjoy playing with it. I’m more used to ‘headless’ Pi though with serial consoles.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I’m having difficulty getting the HDMI setting right for the Samsung quad hd ultra wide monitor I have.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On 22 Jan 2021, at 21:53, Mark Wickens <mark@wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Has anyone tried the Pi Keyboard?
<div>I like the idea of it, but not sure if it would be good?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 21:44, Keith Halewood <<a href="mailto:Keith.Halewood@pitbulluk.org">Keith.Halewood@pitbulluk.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">USB 3 and true gigabit Ethernet on the 4 makes it more like trans warp, compared to 2b :)</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On 22 Jan 2021, at 21:29, August Treubig <<a href="mailto:atreubig49@charter.net" target="_blank">atreubig49@charter.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"> Then from 2b to 4 is like warp speed.
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<blockquote type="cite">On Jan 22, 2021, at 1:47 PM, Mark Wickens <<a href="mailto:mark@wickensonline.co.uk" target="_blank">mark@wickensonline.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Raspberry Pi is fine, it was the SD card that had failed.
<div>However, the difference between the original Pi and the 2B in terms of boot speed is quite noticeable!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 18:57, Dave McGuire <<a href="mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com" target="_blank">mcguire@neurotica.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 1/22/21 1:18 PM, Paul Koning wrote:<br>
> SSDs can fail, though, especially at modern densities. I recently saw a 256 GB microSD card; that boggles the mind. I wonder what the life expectancy of one of those is.<br>
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Not long. They get away with it because they're primarily intended <br>
for the consumer market, and with the throwaway mentality that salesmen <br>
have cultivated, combined with today's short attention spans, nobody <br>
even seems to care when they fail.<br>
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> Modern politically correct solder can be problematic too. "Lead free" processes are less reliable than real soldering. For years, maybe still, lead free solder was not acceptable for space applications. Perhaps that has been cured by now, I don't know
and don't care. (I was told quite directly by a professional "if you are required to use lead free solder, do so. If you aren't required, avoid it.")<br>
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I myself do care, as I do commercial design and manufacturing. Lead <br>
free solder is still awful by every meaningful metric, and that <br>
situation is not likely to improve. Fortunately, "lead free", when <br>
applied to an assembly, only means "contains less than some percentage <br>
of lead by weight", so most PCBs can actually be manufactured with <br>
lead-bearing solder. I assemble mine using lead-bearing solder.<br>
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Remember the Toyota Prius accelerator failure that killed all those <br>
people? That was caused by lead-free solder.<br>
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> I do like SSDs. My home firewall, DECnet router, and Subversion server is a fanless (heat sink cooled industrial type) SSD based PC running Linux. Unlike its plain consumer PC predecessor, it has no objections at all to spending its life in a dusty basement.<br>
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I've found SSDs to be a lot less reliable than spinning disks. I <br>
still use them for reasons of speed and power consumption, but I do more <br>
frequent backups.<br>
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New Kensington, PA<br>
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