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| james_s:
The RPi itself is fantastic, I use them for all sorts of things and have had very few problems. The community, I don't know, I've never tried dealing with them, I just buy the hardware, set it up and use it. Doesn't surprise me to hear that the community is useless, let me guess, do they use a Discourse based forum? I found the same thing with the Home Assistant community, the product is great but the community is completely useless, they're not interested in any form of criticism, constructive or not and they'll berate you for daring to do so. "It's free, what do you expect? If you don't like it write your own" seems to be the prevailing attitude. The documentation is complete garbage too, it looks nice on the surface but when you try to actually follow it you realize there is almost no actual information. Even the most basic tasks were a struggle when they don't have to be at all, and the forums are filled with people asking questions and very few answers. I found a handful of youtube videos by unaffiliated home automation enthusiasts to be vastly more useful. So many forums today are a great illustration of why this forum is so good. The moderators here by and large are not rude, and they do not do what I see so often elsewhere, where a moderator just HAS to get in the last word, say something rude about someone and then lock the thread so they can't respond. I think part of it is inherent to the way Discourse ranks posts and participants, it creates a toxic environment. |
| bd139:
Oh I am glad to see this one. I have been banned twice too. What did I report? Well the first was related to the brown out issues on the original RPi 2 leading to SD corruption. Apparently the issue is entirely me. Secondly there was the poor power conditioning on the RPi 3 leading to crashes. I had to run the thing off a bench supply which was approximately 100x the volume to get any reliability out of it with a couple of USB devices plugged in. How dare I complain that I bought a piece of shit and got screwed :palm: :palm: :palm:. Decided never to buy any more amateur crap like that when you can get a second hand Lenovo mini PC and an arduino and slave the damn thing off it if you want a proper computer with digital IO. As mentioned these guys are Broadcom in disguise. I still talk to someone I used to work with years ago. He spent 3 years working at BCM on the SoC stuff, mostly software and suggested to use his words: "I wouldn't let electrons near that crap". Edit: oh and I could write an essay about BCM ethernet controllers which gave me nearly a fucking decade of misery on HPE stuff arguing back and forth between them, HPE and Cisco over who's fault it was when shit didn't work. It was BCM in the end! |
| Halcyon:
Oh well, at least you have the EEVblog forum, where just about anything goes. This is why I left the Whingepool forums long ago. You get your posts removed there for having a valid opinion, but if it differs with a moderator, you're in trouble. |
| eti:
Their whole “cutesy” vibe makes me cringe. Look at all the usual suspect list of “go-to” YouTubers and academic types that you see hovering around pi “community” as a whole (wider than just their forum), it’s almost as if they’re paid shills or given free stuff. I was given a free pi 400 by a well known supplier, to review, and have used it as my main Desktop for three months (I promised one month for my review), but now I just wanna snap it in half and throw it in the bin - I don’t want to drive any more sales their way tbh, and it’s an utter mess for a daily PC. Last month their updates broke Bluetooth, which in a system like this is a rather major fault. That’s been at least three weeks now - have they fixed it - what do you think? Their official response on the forum was to ask their ✌️“community”✌️ to try various versions of a Bluetooth package which caused the issue, and to report back which one worked… It’s a good thing they only make toys and not actual industrial or military grade equipment, they’d be sued so hard they’d go bust in half an hour. Wow. Incredulous. PS: Whoever accepted this icon as the one to go with for the pi ✌️“foundation”✌️must be visually impaired, or lack any design sense at all. The fact that the ruse is that this thing is for children, doesn’t mean that a child couldn’t have done better 🤣 - it’s HIDEOUS!!!! |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: bd139 on September 03, 2021, 09:40:03 pm ---Decided never to buy any more amateur crap like that when you can get a second hand Lenovo mini PC and an arduino and slave the damn thing off it if you want a proper computer with digital IO. --- End quote --- How much power does that mini-PC burn? One of the main benefits of the RPi and various similar devices is that it draws only 2-5 watts or so depending on the version. The lowest power mini-PCs I've measured draw around 20W. |
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