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Thanks to the SBC distro I've been brought back the the light & powefull LXQt DE. It's a breeze and a whif of elegance in blistering speed to work on the Raspberry Pi5.
I will install LXQt on my X86 system also so that machine can Fly like an Eagle

Thank you for the excellent work programmers!

@LXQt

#LXQt#DE#WM
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@kurt
That is quite a bummer. I wonder what the reason might have been for the programming team to revoke that possibility.

The current ways of preparing the Headless Install through customization, are of no value to you because your OS / computer cannot run the imager, which brings you in a chicken egg situation

#SBC#ARM#Pie

Another plus point for the Raspberry Pi5
The machine works very gracefully with extremely slow USB sticks

Of course is the kernel specifically the kernel modules which do the Magical Work, but it's so beautiful to see how the buffers are dynamically changed to compensate for the extremely slow device

#SBC#ARM#Pie

One program that was written very well, with both the beginning and the master user in mind is this one

Raspberry Pie imager. If you barely know how to move in a graphic user interface you will still be able to make the image.

If you're a seasoned POSIX operator like me, the imager will still do exactly what you want and give you the proper results

#SBC#ARM#Pie

As long as I make sure that the clients that I want to run on the Raspberry Pi5 don't need anything more than what Wayland can offer in the graphics environment, everything runs smoothly

This setup is achievable if I get a PCI Express extender for the SBC and put in a PCI Express Graphics Processing Unit.

At this point in time the SBC only has two GPU outputs one to center IPS LED panel the other two displays are driven by other machines which of course have Dual display outputs running.

Now I need to check which project I will run as the first one. I'm thinking of a simple flip flop circuit, with discrete components and then with the Raspberry Pi as the controller and the Crystal oscillator, all from the GPIO

#SBC#ARM#Pie

Because of careful planning, sheer {un}luck and Quantum Entanglement, I can add significantly important components to this present that I have gotten, a very short while ago, to boost the functionality of this very nice, made and produced in the UK, Nano computing system of which you can see the name in the photograph {Alt text included}

I can go from the basic storage that was provided in the present 🎁 all the way up to Two Hundred Fifty Six GB. I even got a very nice Red White enclosure with an important cooling fan for the system, with the inclusion of cooling blocks!

I also got a neat 27 Watts USB-C power supply for the system.

The only things missing are the two Micro HDMI to HDMI cables.

That also means that I cannot power up the system and see what actually goes on.

What I can see however, is that the moment I apply Power to the system, the status Led goes from dark to red stays a second or four at that state, then becomes green which means that the POST has executed successfully.

#NanoPC #64Bits #microHDMI #LPDDR4x #8192GB POE #PCIe #HAT+ #GPIO #TRXcom #Cam #NCC #NTC #CMIIT #IFT #Abrocon #AMATEL

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The #ArgonOneUP to me has some PineBook vibes but abusing USB-C for a #GPIO connector is not just cursed but dangerous as in "Do they have some protection circuitry to protect it from stupid plugging it into a #USBc charger?"

  • Instead of going exteme on the "#thinn-ness" they could've chosen to just have some magnetic-attaching pogo pin thingy that gets plonk'd into an #IDE 40-pin / 44-pin - style connector instead. (as that has way less chance to get intermixed with a real IDE device!)

Plus I'm shure they could've made it cheaper, last longer on battery and be more hackable if they used like 18540 or 14500 cells instead.

  • To me it looks like someone took a generic "#LincPlus" "#Ultrabook" and widened the "#SSD hatch" to accompany a #CM5 as well as an M.2 SSD...
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@blog thx for the #HonestWords.

To me that touchscreen sounds awful.

Most 3rd party products that aim to compete with any established brand at least get the #price lower than the established players if they can't be assed to at least have the same level of #documentation, #quality or #support than i.e. #RaspberryPi.

  • At that insultingly high price I can get a #Pi0W2, an #HDMI + #GPIO / #USB touchscreen of the same resolution and still have change for a decent microSD and Power Supply, and that can display anything.

For €100 I can get some 1080p screen if not a decent #touchscreen if I snipe the right corners and ain't afraid of returns and refurbished parts.

  • At that price point it's absolutely not acceptable that they didn't put even a DSI connector on and included a HDMI driver board in the box. Espechally when it's not an #eInk screen!