Re: New Pico2

On a sunny day (Fri, 23 Aug 2024 07:09:03 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Lawrence
D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <va9cif$qu2h$3@dont-email.me>:

On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:19:06 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote:
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In the old days I had to buy a decoder key from Raspberry to even look
at mpeg!

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Presumably that was only to activate the decoder hardware. Otherwise
FFmpeg, VLC etc could play it just fine, just with a bit more CPU usage.

I would not play smooth.

PS:
Maybe good to look around a bit:
 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/what-i-learned-when-i-replaced-my-cheap-pi-5-pc-with-a-no-name-amazon-mini-desktop/

My core I5 Samsung laptop, now > 10 years old, is soooo much faster
browsing with Ubuntu and firefox.

ARM is not a solution to everything.

Sure GPIO is cool,
but I have PCI cards with parport for I/O in my normal PCs..
So maybe for I/O applications just use a <10 dollar Pico2?
(at least it also has a RISC core?)
Have not ordered one yet... Not in the online shop here yet last monday.

Or if no extreme speed is needed I use Microchip PICs:
 https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/pic/index.html
  You do not need a filesystem if you have only one 'subject' that needs
  storing data, just write sector by sector.
   https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/quadcopter/index.html

Too much bloat these days and Linux with all the rathead shit is becoming a nuisance.

We went to the moon in the sixties of last century and came back
with computing power less than a Raspberry.
Now astronuts  get stuck on the ISS with billions of dollars and sup[p]er computers to do the work.

Back to basics guys!