There are a lot of less complex pi channels on YT. My point in sharing was the Pi is more than just an SBC these days - they are a lot more versatile and expansive. Someone told me on Facebook the other day that the Pi is a “child’s play thing” — which is so very far from reality. You don’t have to “fidgit”. I use one Pi to block ad networks (image can be recorded to a MicroSD in a few minutes and it’s running in less than 15), another to tell me if my four flower pots are too dry, another tells me if the AC in the data center at work has failed (which it does twice a year and we never get notification in a timely manner so now we have a Pi do it). I have another Pi that runs my 3D printer. They are excessively versatile. You can turn a Pi4 into a Plex server. You can use the 3.5mm jack as a Wi-Fi (AirPlay) receiver and turn your old stereo into a wi-fi based one that can even stream things like Pandora and Spotify. Using IFTTT you can have it turn lights on and off when you leave home and forgot to do it yourself. Check out MagPi: https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/ <https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/> — Ryan > On Jan 12, 2021, at 9:47 PM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the great link to a guy doing what I'll always be clueless about. "Kubernetes, clusters," etc. > > As a now old computer hardware fidgiter, I like the new plug in micro hard-drives on Raspberry-Pies. But my fidgiting days are over. > > I'll dig into your great link. Again, thanks. > > > Ryan Coleman wrote: >> Yep. There’s a lot on YT about what you can do with them. >> >> Jeff Geerling does some of the crazier things with the CM4, too. >> https://www.youtube.com/user/geerlingguy >> >>> On Jan 12, 2021, at 5:57 PM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: >>> >>> I get emails from "Opensource.com" that I often follow up. This link was interesting >>> >>> https://opensource.com/article/20/11/raspberry-pi-400 >>> >>> The article describes the Raspberry-Pi 400 kit that boxes the Pi CPU board in a keyboard, with mounted connectors for other I/O. $100. >>> >>> I wish I knew 1/4 what the other articles are even about. Programming languages, cloud storage, duh duh duh. But a new cute little PC running Linux for $100 beats even FreeGeeks. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20210112/357d68b4/attachment.htm>