Anyone use a Raspberry pi or Credit Card sized pc as their main pc?

You can compile elsewhere with ARM as a target, you know?

I've always wanted to but never had a reason. If I wanted to spend money on a Pi, I could spend an equal amount on an old Core2Duo laptop and have equal specs and better portability.

Just use that machine as your daily driver then.

I don't think servers make good daily drivers.

Nu-Jow Forums gives me brain cancer.

If I could find a blobless SBC that actually functioned, I would seriously consider it as a daily driver.
My usage fits with the specs of an rPi just fine, I just don't like all the boot/gpu binary horseshit.

>daily driver

kys

lol

>daily driver

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No, I uses a Gigabyte server board with a Hexa-Core ARM CPU.
Onboard SATA and PCIe, open source Radeon drivers work great.

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I have one that I fucked around with for a bit. ultimately made it into a games emulator for use with my TV but then valve was selling steam links for $5 so I dropped it completely. it's in a drawer now, not really sure what to do with it.

is it this? b2b.gigabyte.com/Server-Motherboard/MP30-AR0-rev-11#ov

I was thinking of using a trinket as my main PC
0.5 KB of RAM
8 MHZ processor
intel btfo

disgusting

Look for an i.MX6 ou i.MX8 based SBC

ssssssssssssssllllllllllooooooooooooowwwwww

Be me
>Take mac mini home from office for project taking 3 weeks
>don't want to be without desktop at desk(Use iPad Pro as physician at point of care)
>Throw raspian on old pi3 I was using for KODI
>Works great for surfing web, youtube
>Even works as desktop because I either use rdp to log into our electronic health record server or hospital server to look at exrays
>patient's think ur a genius because can show them their CT scan on computer smaller than their iphone
It werks man

Yeah

Be Me part 2
>Realize that a pi is all any of the staff(20-30) employees needs to rdp into our server which does all the heavy lifting
>Every employee uses big ATX box as a thin client at a $ of 1k/unit
>Tell office manager I can save practice 20K over next 5 years(all ATX boxes are old and dying from things like PSU's going bad and running win7)
>She's worried about viruses, meanwhile no one can get outside our local network
>show her pi doing job with linux and free AV software
>getting paid on side as doc for IT to set her up and image for RPI with simple bash script to customize rdesktop for each user
>retiring at 46 in 2 months to go sailing full time
C ya Jow Forums

Nice LARP faggot.

Are you saying that rdesktop doesn't work on a linux box?

Back when I was a complete poorfag and my PC broke down I used my BananaPi as my main computer for about a year.
It sucked. Web browsing was painfully slow and limited to at most 3-5 tabs due to memory limitations, searching through a PDF file took forever, and basically any graphical application was too slow to do serious work with.

I don't recommend using it as a work environment for anything that requires more resources than writing code in vim/nano and compiling small programs.

It did keep my electricity bills appreciably low, however.

How much "resources" does an rdp use? Not much, making a pi the perfect device for such a use. Stop and think about it for a sec. Any small business you go into(even my pool store) uses ridiculously over spec'd pc's as thin clients to connect to their(usually underspec'd server). No, I would never use a pi for a serious computer. But then again, I would never use a Maserati as a daily driver to travel 5 miles to my place of employment.

Sure, works great, use it all the time. Why add all the personal details.
>retiring at 46 in 2 months
>I'm a doctor

Case use scenario I never considered before last week. I hate all the pi bashing and Jow Forums is really shortsighted sometimes. I love the high end builds too, but every computer is a thing a beauty and has a niche. The Raspberry Pi not only got me into linux, it also got me into PLB's because it allowed me to control electrical relays for $35.

>How much "resources" does an rdp use?
it needs a fucking server, for starters.
>Any small business you go into(even my pool store) uses ridiculously over spec'd pc's as thin clients
Well that's the Eternal Boomer for you right there

BTW, at the moment my cable internet is down and I'm using my BananaPi as a router to connect my other machines to the internet via an old UMTS dongle.

Otherwise, I still use it sometimes when I feel like dicking around with ARM assembly (I could just run an emulator on my main machine, but that would cost more electricity).

>pkshhhh

That was my point. Small businesses get ass raped on shitty servers and then go for round 2 when the company sells you a core i5-i7 for thin clients. Our EHR company wants us to use Fujitsu Lifebooks for physicians to rdp into server at $3K per physician. Each doc has 2 exam rooms X 5 docs = 10 clients. 5 docs X 3k = 15 K. A pi, hdtv, keyboard and mouse for $200 per room X 10 rooms costs 2K and does the job every bit as good. Doesn't take 30 min to reboot win 7 either.

I'll give another example that has nothing to do with me because I am starting to see case use applications everywhere I go. I am on vacation right now and went to a restaurant today(Crab Shack, Tybee Island, GA). Fortunately they had fans and water misters because it is hot AF and miserable. I looked at the misters when they kicked on and wondered how much the restaurant got ass raped for to install them by some company that specializes in misters when the average Jow Forums tard could have made the same system with a water pump, pi, vnc interface, a simple relay controlled by said pi and a shitty bash script. The restaurant would have saved money and the Jow Forums tard would've made money.

I wanted to set one up as a digital notebook to take with me to class so I didn't have to shell for a laptop or waste paper.

great case use idea. I played with kali on a headless pi setup. Similar for u. Set up pi with ap for private network and run in ur backpack on battery. Connect to pi with phone/tablet via vnc and download notes in ur room with simpleHTTP. Automate process with a bash script.

My desktop is turned off all the time and I just use a comfy combination of this box with an Android TV ROM with a 50in TV, and my phone.

Does that count? The box uses like 4w.

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Fuck yes. The key is not using overpriced specs for a job that should cost $75-100. Everything has it's role...

I think at least one of the crazy old british guys who post on riscosopen.org/forum does it.

Yes and no
Not my main work of personal computer, but we do have a lot of computers powered by raspberry pis at work

If I wanted to use an underpowered computer with old as fuck hardware I would just use my shitty phone with 1gb of ram and a shitty mediatek processor.

Holy shit, why aren't these more popular?

Yeah, he’s probably an IT monkey who set it up for the doc he’s pretending to be.

Why the hell would you need a laptop for each room? You DO know that laptops are portable, right?

Whats the boot like on these things? I wish there was a nice box like that which just had a UEFI and i could roll my own distro instead of these images with patched kernels and wonky ass bootloaders.
You can get low ass x86 boxes which are ok but an arm64 with those mali gpus would be nice n comfy

Nope just a geek who missed his calling. Remember when you graduated HS in 1990 Doctor was a sure thing. It was not. I wish now I went the other way. Follow your calling Jow Forums, words of advice from gen X

My explanation was not complete(I expected you to get it). If we use lifebooks it's 1 per doc(5) at a cost per unit of 3K = 15 K. They travel with the doc. If you do the pi setup it's $200 per room X 10 rooms for a total of 2K(versus 15K for lifebooks) total. I didn't even mention maintenance in costs(goes my way not yours young jedi)

You can roll your own distros. I have not had the time or patience or need but kali has a good tutorial which can be applied to Debian in general to get you started

No but I would fully be able to.
Web browsing wouldn't be a problem on a lightweight web browser, programming using nano/vi(m), and any heavy stuff I can just ssh into aws or some shit

>ordinary operator
>preferred personal computer
>handpicked hardware

I tried a first gen pi as soon as I got it, it couldn't really surf the internet very well. I'd imagine the pi 3 is fast enough to check your facebook, maybe even play youtube/pornhub, and if most of what you do is over ssh then it'd be pretty good.

I am using it right now. Works OK if you don use much RAM.

>Daily Biker

No, because:
1. I am not poor
2. I actually want to get shit done

holy fuck, that does seem comfy
also
>kde
god tier taste. I've been thinking of getting an odroid xu4 for general use and keep my gayming pc on windows for when I want to play gaymes

fuck fuck it's lxde
looks real close to kde tho sorry