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mikerr

It will work ok, but relatively slowly.

Expect 2-3 megabyte/sec speeds,
compared to 10 meg/sec if using an Ethernet based pi model.

mikerr

Tried it on a PI3 (stretch, updated) in chromium and the CPU is pegged at 97% even while just idle /dragging blocks. Sluggish, but usable for making a test script. Big problem is the stage doesn't show - but the script is running as I can see the sprite x/y values changing. Pi3 under firefox-esr the...

mikerr

You can do this with qemu, and it's workable, but not that fast or efficient:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_jcBBLnJHU

maybe Pentium 200Mhz speed

There's a quick guide for setup here:

viewtopic.php?t=117228

mikerr

Should be able to install it on other OS from the source at

https://github.com/raspberrypi/piserver/

mikerr

I wonder if this is over thinking the issue and comparing flash SSD to SD cards - which are different. SSDs do a lot of idle time wear levelling, I'm not convinced SD cards are the same as they are specifically removable devices. Nearest I could find from sandisk themselves: https://web.archive.org/...

mikerr

Where are you getting stuck? Have you followed the guide here:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/piserver/

mikerr

I generally take the view of "if its permanent, solder it" - I've seen plenty of problems with single dupont wires becoming disconnected - not from vibration, but from user handling ! I've not seen any problems with the full headers though - take a bit more force to remove, so more secure, maybe sol...

mikerr

There's an instructable for this using a digitspark attiny85 :

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11 ... gispark-At

that uses a relay, but you could use a FET

mikerr

I can not find the screen brightness settings on this system. I think it's supposed to map to the function keys ( and this is a common issue with LXDE it seems from a google search) You could also install xbacklight: sudo apt-get install xbacklight xbacklight -set 50 But that didn't work on my 2009...

mikerr

Do we really need these unhelpful posts every single time someone refers to "raspbian x86" ?

mikerr

Do we really need these unhelpful posts every single time someone refers to "raspbian x86" ?

mikerr

zero run a whole day on a 2600mAh pack IME the lowest you can go to is 65mA on a pi (by [url=]turning off usb and hdmi) https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=127210 That would give 40hrs of "standby" with a 2600mAh pack. (2600 /65) Reduce that time for active use, and non perfect ...

mikerr

Thanks everyone for your replies. I will do as jbudd says and buy from a British reseller - probably one recommended on this website. Originally I was just expecting to pop down to my local Currys and get one! If walking into the high street shops: Currys / PC World do sell them, but I find they do...

mikerr

little on how the Foundation is spending its money on its actual goals, who's getting support, which projects are being funded, etc. [..] it would be nice to know where the money was going [...] what good causes are benefiting. A lot of that sort of info will be found in accessible form in the annu...

mikerr

I suppose you could do this with g_ether and VNC ?

mikerr

Sigh. After 2 hours of messing around, I find that wpa_supplicant.conf headlessly is totally broken in Stretch (or at least, the previous wpa_supplicant is completely incompatible with previous ones). Why?!!? Stretch now requires the ctrl_interface line, whereas Jessie allowed you to omit it - see ...

mikerr

Glad you got it sorted, but for clarity my default unaltered sources.list reads like this: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free # U...

mikerr

The old "pixel" version of the PC Desktop didn't have an installer, but the new one does, download it here:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/r ... i-desktop/

mikerr

I very much doubt you can do any damage by undervolting - maybe sd card corruption at worst ?

mikerr

The PC running PiServer needs internet access - at least for first setup.

Try typing that command in the terminal:

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sudo apt-get -q -y install dnsmasq openssh-server nfs-kernel-server slapd libnss-ldapd libpam-ldapd ldap-utils gnutls-bin

mikerr

hmm not on the WH page: https://thepihut.com/collections/raspberry-pi-zero/products/raspberry-pi-zero-wh-with-pre-soldered-header https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-zero-board-379/rpi-zero-board/raspberry-pi-zero-wireless-pre-soldered-header (prev offer of 20 per customer: https://www...

mikerr

Oddly that blog announcement doesn't mention what should be the MAIN point :

Zero WH is available without the 1 per customer restriction ?

( the pi hut and modmypi pages now don't mention any restriction for the WH version
and previously modmypi was selling up to 20 qty of Zeroes with header)

mikerr

Many usb devices will still continue to work at 3.3v

From experience I've used pi zeros with usb wifi dongles running at 3.3v with no problems.

mikerr

For a PC install, the download page is at:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/r ... i-desktop/

256MB RAM is quite tight though...

mikerr

As always with solar, you'll find you need MUCH much bigger panels than you initially thought....

http://pi.qcontinuum.com/project.html
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=11563

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