Shield TV was good for what it could do at the time it initially released, but seriously, NVIDIA needs to update its specs b/c compared to other SBCs that contain the Rockchip RK3588S (like the OP5), it doesn't hold a candle. I actually have Android 10 installed on my 2GB Jetson Nano which essentially makes it akin to a Shield w/ a slight less I/O, however, I prefer to use that to watch YouTube, watch movies via VLC, and occasionally emulate some old school games. I still need to beat that GameBoy game Link's Awakening on it when I have time.Yeah, Kodi is nice. I have a Shield TV so it's just easier & quicker than turning on my PC and browsing for the right file.
I basically downloaded my entire IMDB watchlist, including around 200 shows, over half of it is taken up by shows. So I can watch anything any time I want. And also cancelled my Netflix
4K stuff is big. A single season in 4K is like 150 gigs, sometimes over 200.
I admit, I don't have any of this backed up. I backed up some important personal files to gdrive (that weren't on the server), don't think I can be arsed to back up 50 TB though even if I do have unlimited gdrive.
Were any of the other Orange Pi devices that successful? I looked at them years ago, back then they were still more powerful than Raspberry Pi. But they didn't seem especially popular, besides a few people raving about them.
I'm afraid most people will be hesitant to buy anything other than Raspberry Pi because the names are not as well known.
Wtf, lol... You literally download 4K videos?... Sh!t, I used to download 720p videos for ages until 2018/2019 when I started to pivot toward 1080p which I consider sufficient enough for my needs. 4K would be overkill for the amount of storage capacity I have available to make it sustainable.
I didn't even bother looking into the Orange Pi 5 until I saw one of ETA Prime's YouTube videos where's he's showing off its performance which had me impressed when comparing it to my Jetson Nano and being that there was a preorder pricing offer for the OP5 at that time, I immediately bought one and didn't flinch at the price since I knew it was going to eventually increase so it was better to get in early. The price I paid for it I feel was warranted for its performance and features I got out of it.
Even though it's not as popular as the RP4, there happens to be a decent size reddit community that's making some noise. I recently had some open dialog w/ a few of the members in the OP5 reddit subgroup whom I've been able to discuss questions I had related to getting it setup, troubleshooting and various OS support.
S/N: I sent you a friend request on Steam.
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@FAST6191 you def showing your age there, lol. I'm in my late 30s so I get your drift. Seems like you knew enough to be dangerous in your heyday I see, lolLost interest here.
Don't know quite where to point at in all this
I liked getting my full computer onto a TV back when flatscreen was the new hotness as opposed to the slight curve of CRT, though my electronics skills there were limited to 555 timers and basic logic and application specific chips rather than anything too programmable. Similarly serial ports were still a thing so could have my computer take in signals and light LEDs, something that pleased rather younger me at a visceral level (school had some little light gates to do boring things like take before and after speeds/timings to use in a spreadsheet to calculate speeds when you vary the angle of the track a cart ran down and it was right up there with explosives, mercury, vaan der graaf generators, lasers, radioactive stuff, liquid nitrogen, thermite and everything else you do if you want to catch a young boy's attention as it applies to chemistry and physics). Then went to original xbox (which had wonderful homebrew) and sought ways to get them into cars and whatnot without just buying an inverter (which I did also get involved in on the periphery).
Throughout that I was looking on and following the pogoplug/sheevaplug thing quite intently and got into hacked routers and mp3 players as well. I was less involved in programmable chips than some but still did a bit and learned things up to and including fiddling with FPGAs.
Arduino came along and were delightful little things to play with to do all sorts of things that previously were tedious logic setups or having to coax a microcontroller (I missed the earlier PLC and PAL world beyond what I read in books) or maybe CPLD into doing something fun. Raspberry pis came along where I followed it from early talk on tech sites to making the plunge with the 512 meg model B (still have loads around and in service).
For better or worse the pi left its powered by USB design goal and instead became a more boring version of the cheap and cheerful laptops I could hide behind a TV or something and use there. They still had some nice means of plugging in external devices but most were embedded Linux to display things or act as local network devices of various classes. I was not necessarily tied to USB power at the time (though even then most things would give you an amp rather than 500mA) but most of those that went beyond that never quite managed to get it together or were needlessly restrictive (this was before the rasp pi cores got properly opened up as well).
Today I still watch people online having fun doing various data collection or camera traps with complicated processing and external triggers, and am waiting with bated breath to see where both mod chip, flash cart and even wholesale replacement of serious components of hardware (that amiga stuff a while back where they faked a load of things from the CPU on down... wonderful). That said so much of it has been replaced by grabbing an old laptop, being a basic linux distro to install where the mechanical mounting and wiring is more interesting or indeed an old cheap tablet that does it all far better.
Other than them acting as a poor man's FPGA replacement/thing programmable by mere mortals I am having so very little drive any enthusiasm in me for things here.
So w/ the stagnation of features being included on the Raspberry Pi, is that what made you decide to give up being a hobbyist? Lol...
Do you still use FPGAs? If so, does it involve video game emulation? I was actually really interested in purchasing all the boards necessary to build my own FPGA, but due to current prices being more than what I'm willing to pay, I took a backseat on that project.
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