Idle consumption is truly horrid on the Pi 5, even with all the hacks and turning absolutely everything off and hobbling the SoC to 500 Mhz it's imposible to get it under 2W. I'm convinced that the Pi Foundation doesn't think battery powered applications are like, a thing that physically exists.

Just another Raspberry Pi HAT ;)

It's funny that we're not even considering native but like, at all.

In the EU it costs $200 more so it's more like a low to mid range laptop.

I have a feeling these are aimed at the same sector as the Framework 12, school provided laptops for kids meant to be bought in bulk by institutions. But there they're competing against $150 Chromebooks and neither is even close.

In the EU, you don't need to buy an extended warranty, since existing consumer protection laws require the sort of extended repair coverage Americans have to pay extra for.

Taxes are also included in the EU price, but not the US price.

The lack of reflection indicated by "US prices are so much cheaper! Why are our electronics so expensive?" vs "What do you mean, you can't take it back to the store where you got it for an on-the-spot replacement a year and a half after purchase if it breaks?" has amused me for quite some time. Not that both come from the same person, but don't they ever talk to each other?

Yes but be aware this only goes where Apple is the actual seller. If you buy it in another shop you only have Apple warranty for one year and the shop has to sort out the second one. So buying from Apple directly is better.

But sales taxes are significantly lower and easily lowered or even avoided by driving a half hour.

No one does this, because they're low enough to begin with.

After factoring in sales tax, paying 25% extra for a moderately nice two year warranty sounds like it would be an awful deal for me.

I always wondered why nobody's ever tried to reach me about an extended warranty despite it being such a meme. I guess that's why, pretty fucked up ngl.

"Man spends hundreds of dollars a month on API tokens, claims coding isn't worth it anymore."

Onion articles really write themselves these days. I for one would still rather keep the money and write 25% of it myself.

In fact forget the claw!

Eh screw the whole thing.

Do the peripherals work reliably? Wifi and GPIO especially. It does seem like a very capable board but this is always so hit and miss.

I can't really say as I don't use them. This is a host mostly working as a CI worker connected via ethernet.

I just scanned for WiFi networks and that worked fine. I also see that GPIO is not enabled for CIXP1 devices in Debian's kernel; I'll ask the kernel team to enable it.

> but it feels empty

> Everything feels hollow

> antidepressants

I presume you already know this, but it may be worth reminding that the typical effect of antidepressants is to make people feel blank. It erases the negative, but also the positive.

> go on GitHub or the manufactuer's support website to hunt down an OS image

If you're lucky! Most of the time it's a questionable Google Drive link.