<html><head></head><body>Wifi is for convenience. Like Google. <br><br><Cue giant slurping sound/><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 19, 2021 6:51:25 PM EDT, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 5/19/21 4:20 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">DJ-Pfulio,<br><br>So Ansible works great. I have an array of SBC from<br>Pi4/Jetson/Asus/RockChip, I use ansible on them to test. As long as<br>you can use Python3 on a distro/computer, Ansible is happy, between<br>them and my KVM Guest gives my AWX server a work out. Plus, keeps me<br>on my toes on how to make sure my playbook can work with different os> and releases.<br></blockquote><br>Don't know why AWX is needed with ansible. Never touched it. Never needed it.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">There are SBC out there that are designed to be an NSF server ( NAS<br>). Odroid do a lot of cool things. Arm boards come a long way. I love<br>to get Pine64 Phone, run openSUSE on it<br></blockquote><br>The non-Pi ARM systems have 10,000x less community, so be prepared to live with what it comes with. Getting patches and updates is a bonus, if that happens.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I have use Pi3 back in the for about 1 month at work for working on<br>my Linux Server, just needed a CLI. Remote Desktop was ok, but it can<br>slow.<br><br>I knew a lot of people that use Pi3 as Kodi servers, I did that and<br>it worked if media was local on hard drive. Over Samba or NFS<br>wireless killed it because it had to buffer a lot. I got around with<br>300MB wireless usb.<br></blockquote><br>Don't use wifi. Just don't. Over wired ethernet, no issues with NFS media or DLNA streams.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Java needs to die!!! That's coming from a MidWare Admin who has to> make Tomcat/JBoss.<br></blockquote><br>Agreed, but the people paying get to decide.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I will be honest there no $50 pi, by the time someone get a Pi, Power<br>Supply, Case, SD that alone is about $100, I tell my friend who one a<br>Pi, save your money go get Dell Optiplex you can like 9020 i7 8 Gigs<br>with 320GB HD for $100. Yes, I have more SBC that I know what to do<br>with most are collecting dust, but I love to torture myself, must be<br>my schooling.<br></blockquote><br>There are $35 r-pis, add in a $15 case+PSU and you are at $50. Don't people have microSD cards laying around? I do. Threw away 2 last week because they wore out sometime in the last year. The vast majority of MicroSD storage I have is load once, use for 3+ yrs. For the OS, a $9 Endurance Samsung microSD is fine. Just don't keep anything local that doesn't need to be local. We all have networks, right?<br><br>And don't use wifi.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Anyway, I tell my friend this when they talk about cloud computing,<br>just call me the Rain Master because I am of those guys working to<br>build out the computer they run on. Or to Leam point, I am the<br>farmer.<br></blockquote><br>Compared to Intel, a r-pi is a joke. We are paying for simplicity, silence, and low power. Performance is doubling almost every new Pi version, but it is still so far behind what a cheap Intel can do, it would be foolish to try an cluster multiple Pis. Setup a $200 Intel box with 5-15 VMs and learn clustering that way. It will be faster AND cheaper.<br><br>We won't get to take kewl-photos with blue lighting using VMs.<br>There are always exceptions, so some people might have great wifi. I've just never seen it. The desktop performance might be fine too. Just depends on the workload. OTOH, with an Intel/AMD with 3000 passmarks, we don't have to worry too much. It will work fine for most desktop needs. Video editing probably wants 10K-20K passmarks and 16G of RAM - about a $400 box these days.<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>