General discussion • Re: Language Woes
I set up a Pi5 with Pi OS for a friend today, and got quite annoyed with the language/locale settings. What I want is to have a switch between English (US) and Chinese. I can get the system changed to...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Which RP would be best for my needs?
I've been running a convention registration system on Pi4B-4GB since not long after the came out. To that has been added Apache2 to provide a GUI interface for those entering data. I haven't had any...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Verdict on Pi 5 gaming
Seems that the CLI is the only way to go to avoid tearing - vsync doesn't get rid of screen tearing under X/wayland.My verdict for 1920x1080 gaming is, too laggy under wayland, good if you can live...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Raspberry Pi5 Benchmarks Thread
Here are my expectations of what you can get from gaming on a Pi 5: viewtopic.php?t=363706.There are probably many SDL games that would run well but it would depend on the game's...
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General discussion • Re: Verdict on Pi 5 gaming
Here's an example of something that pushes the Pi 5 to it's limit but stays smooth:The FPS font is too small but it reads 70 FPS. That's 1920x1080, just over 2 layers of drawing (including steam) and...
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General discussion • Re: PiLFS and SARPi
For original Raspberry Pi B:PiLFS: Super light, complex setup, no GUI.SARPi: Easier install, some GUI, less lightweight.NetBSD: Stable, diverse packages, steeper learning curve.Consider DietPi or...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Apple Macbook Pro Power Adaptor to run RP5?
Looks like that power supply will default to its lowest output 5.2V 2.4A which is below any recommended spec for the Pi5.Recommended is the official Pi power supply 5.1V 5A, however a power supply of...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Raspberry Pi 5 Firmware Network Download to SD Card
I have this feature on my RPi 4 where if I have a blank SD card installed, the firmware supports downloading a special version of Imager and then I can install the OS on the SD Card from the RPi...
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General discussion • Re: RPI-Clone & Bookworm
I've used the built in SD Card Copier to copy my two Pi 5 Bookworm installs onto NVMe drives and they went without a hitch both times (I did select the 'New Partition UUIDs' option to ensure I had no...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Raspberry Pi 5 Firmware Network Download to SD Card
I have this feature on my RPi 4 where if I have a blank SD card installed, the firmware supports downloading a special version of Imager and then I can install the OS on the SD Card from the RPi...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: STICKY: PINN - An enhanced version of NOOBS.
It appears that access to any Bullseye distribution is now lost. This is really terrible, as we often need to do testing against older versions of the OS to find bugs, etc...Is it possible to add them...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Solid State Hard Drive
I obtained another Pi 5 at the same time as the 5 amps power supply and active cooler. I had overstressed the original board creating a irrecoverable hardware failure. This occurred on plugging in a...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Raspberry Pi 4 OS getting corrupted on every boot (power...
Hi all,I am new to Raspberry PI 4.My Raspberry PI 4 having the issue as followsAfter every Fresh installation of OS Desktop is coming, All USB ports are inactive (not detection Keyboard, mouse lights...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Prevent hdd from turning on during shutdown?
It's just the head parking to one side or another in the drive.In the past, heads sticking in the drive used to be a thing. This was especially common with drives that were on for long periods of time...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Trouble with SSH on a raspberry pi 4 & a Rpi 5
Greetings, this is my first post on this forum, and its a doozy.I am having problems with ssh. The following is what I have done, pretty much in the order I did it.- First off I gave the raspberry pi...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Feeding single Raspberry Pi 4 with two power cables
It's not likely to break the Pi, but it might damage your power supply. No two sources are going to provide the exact same voltage. This will lead to the higher voltage supply trying to drive to lower...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: https is it my domain or apache's configuration
Apache can be set to redirect http requests to https. You'd do that on the site configuration file(s).Domains (DNS) usually just deals with IP addresses and server names. They don't bother about ports...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Installing Audacity is not working - what am I doing wrong?
Hi everyone,I'm new to using raspberry Pi and linux in general. I am trying to install the software audacity, but it doesn't seem to be working. Here's what I do:Go to: Prefrences > Add / Remove...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Installing Audacity is not working - what am I doing...
GUI software such as the "Add / Remove Software" application does not always tell you what it is actually doing and if things go wrong.Luckily everything that interacts with apt writes to a particular...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Free HW for development purposes (OpenWrt)
OTOH plenty of people did seem to get given Pi 5 pre-launch, for beta testing, to ensure their software was working, and to ready their reviews for launch. I would class some of that as marketing...
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