Old computer challenge 2024 - Day 4
So I figured out why the graphical Desktop on my Raspberry Pi did not work anymore: There were some obsolete settings in config.txt that I had put their some time ago. Removing those, everything works fine again. With new new bookworm OS, browsing is now much faster, too.
Interestingly I catched myself turning on the mid-end PC just by habit; but then I remembered what I actually wanted to do, and used the raspberry pi again.
After some experimentation, I now can say that the raspberry pi is enough for:
- Watching Videos in UHD (2560x1440)
- Writing
- Reading most ebooks. PDFs that are heavy in graphics, e.g. where every page is scanned, take seconds to load (every single page).
- Organizing files
- Listening to music over bluetooth
What I want to try in the future is listening to brain.fm over the 3.5mm headphone jack. I read on the cheapskate guide that the audio quality is supposedly very bad, and I don’t know if the raspberry can actually handle streaming music from a bloated website.
Another thing are small programming projects. These have probably to be written in a specific language; C++ and Rust are out of the question, they already take too much time to compile on a regular PC. The language of choice might be C, Python, Lisp or maybe D.
tags: old-computer-challenge