Subj : Re: Steampunk Pi To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Sun Aug 09 2020 11:52:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! Chris has a new video comparing various OSs for x64 RPi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80CU1j36Q6s He's a bit behind on KDE vs XFCE, tho -- there's no longer much difference in resources required (about 100mb RAM), and KDE is a lot better optimized. I still love how his punky pi looks! > > When the wheel needs repair you're not going anywhere! > KM> True! unless the horse runs away with you... > > Just keep repeating to yourself "it's an adventure! It's an > adventure!"!! Adventure: somebody else, having a difficult time, a long ways away. > KM> My criteria are easy to navigate and easy to work on, and doesn't > KM> make my eyes bleed. Others' eyes may vary, especially since the > KM> color scheme on the Twilight Asylum is purple, green, red, and > KM> yellow. > > I'm thinking I might know where the 'asylum' part came about! Hahaha... actually it's an album by Oscar, a 1970s glam band. When I was DJing, I played it all the time. Glah, pretty hard to find anything of theirs on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZlWlFpO13U Ah, here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsixwhtb-5c > KM> IBM used to have some wonderful Dilbertesque ads... still looking > KM> for their BS detector ad... > > I did a quick look also but didn't see anything; 10 MB HDD for $3398! Those data recovery outfits that work for legal firms, they'll pay anything... > Which reminds me of a good lesson: don't have your waste basket next to > the table being used as the computer work bench! Ah yes... I know people who have suffered from this... I don't need trash, I just need to lay something down and it's never seen again. > KM> The best was from before green screens, tho... 1960s, KRTV in > KM> Great Falls MT, studio was up on a hill and sat in the sun all > KM> day, no air conditioning and it got HOT in there. So since in > KM> those days they sat at a desk to read the news, they'd wear the > KM> suit jacket on top... and just underwear below. One night no one > KM> noticed that when they got up to file out of the studio, the > KM> camera was still live.... > > Oops!! Similar but not quite as good was a male anchor on WBZ-TV > (Boston) was 'made' to get out from behind the desk at the end of the > news: suit jacket, shirt and tie on top - shorts and sandals on the > lower supposed-to-be-hidden bottom. Well, at least he was fully dressed! they'd come in fully dressed but due to the oven-like qualities of the studio, had shucked their pants... > And locally (WOC-TV) a klutzy lanky meteorologist. At the time used a > wall panel map and the Iowa/Illinois portion was pushed out to > emphasize. He crossed over and was a little too close so got pushed by > the map section, lost his balance and fell of the platform! That took talent :D > > Yup! ...Because of the past experiences with slow loading/booting and > > the file system barrier I've pretty much have stayed with 32 GB and > KM> Applies only if you're using FAT32, which I can't imagine why you > KM> would in this day and age. Default on most flash drives now is > KM> exFAT. exFAT looks like FAT32, but is its own thing. Older > KM> Windows will need an exFAT driver to see 'em. > > OK, thanks. Have a bunch of older flash drives in various physical > formats. Know some are FAT32 and they're fine except when copying large > video files -- only get the first 4 GB! At the time 4 GB would be > everything but the last ten or fifteen minutes of the show -- what > the...!!! Yeah, FAT32 has a 4GB limit, and the copy will either fail or truncate at that point. I always just reformat 'em as NTFS, that way no such limit and they work with everything (except DOS, but DOS doesn't do USB gracefully anyway). > Back to the 'stay with 32 GB' comment, wasn't a capacity issue but > loading speed. Not recalling or even sure if I know the format of the > 64 GB cards but the problem was it took f-o-r-e-v-e-r to load (boot > time), and I think also bring up the file utility (Thunar?). Could be > more of an issue with the old Raspberry Pi's -- slower processor, etc. I think there's a hardware incompatibility in some USB3 drives, at least vs middle-aged PCs; it seems to trigger at old capacity boundaries. I've had problems with flash drives larger than 128GB, where they get so slow they look hung (it may be reverting to USB1 speed, because if you wait long enough -- like 15 minutes -- eventually the copy finishes). Some BIOSs had a 64GB barrier and might behave similarly with larger flash drives. Don't know why there'd be an issue with 32GB, other than the FAT32 issue, but an old USB chip might have any number of peculiar ideas.** Might just be the old Pi's 32bit ARM processor, which was no speed demon and may have had limits that don't apply to the rest of the computing world. Chris did a speed test of 32bit vs 64bit Pi OS, and the 64bit was about 2.5 times faster on the same CPU-intensive operation. (Per my benchmarks on random PCs, I find 64bit OS runs about 40% faster than 32bit OS. Definitely an advantage here!) ** Such as the AMD boards that have USB2, but during boot it only functions as USB1. Slower to boot from flash than from CD or floppy! Never seen this with Intel, but several times with AMD, so probably a defect in the associated and often crappy chipset. > KM> Can't keep up with the too many things I seem to be interested > KM> in, especially during baseball season (Tarnish and one of the > KM> Dells are busy displaying Angels and Dodgers games as we > KM> speak...) > > The husband of one of the store managers was really into sports: she > said he had several TVs and they'd be on different channels so he could > watch them all at once. Scheduling games at the same time, what were they thinking??! > > KM> ...must remember that Project Farm has a new product comparison > KM> vid I want to see (tho I don't remember what product!) > > The 19" Pixer CRT to the 20" Samsung CRT!! You really need to trim that > list!! Which one makes a bigger pop when used for target practice? Let's find out! > > > > .. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. > KM> What did we just say?! > I didn't say anything: I was typing! 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