Recent content by farnell121

"The Prodigy chip can also run binaries for x86, ARM, RISC-V, and ISA". I'm assuming you meant POWER ISA, instead of just Instruction Set Architecture, as that would be redundant.

First off, this is the dangerous article in question that kills your OS: https://www.tomshardware.com/amp/how-to/raspberry-pi-install-steam The line where you tar the archive to your / (root) directory, in a nutshell, overwrites your /usr/bin folder and trashes root. Luckily all of my source...

Basically comparing a desktop to a cell phone, an under-powered cell phone. It's not fair to call it a Pi competitor. Why can't they let forums members like us write up some articles? I mean we actually seem like we've played around with these and know what buyers remorse some articles can lead...

If its faster than an old nVidia 9800 GT, it should run it smoother than an original PS2 in some games like Shadow of the Colossus. You're definitely good here, and can actually run wine or playonlinux if you really wanna get crazy thanks to it being x86.

Didn't think about TDP which is obvious now I think about it, this also translates to complexity for beginners making a device and affect battery life. There is a market segment for this but it comes off as Apples and Tomatoes are similar because they are both fruit.

Amen. The article writer obviously doesn't spend a lot of indepth time with SBC's and is focused on a market segment the Pi is NOT trying to target. If you want to hack together a device, use it like a powerful microcontroller, have it run small services, or get someone interested in the...

And this is 3x the size, not a compatible form-factor with Pi-like devices. And it doesn't seem to have Raspberry Pi compatible GPIO.. And it's approx. 10x more expensive as you said...

I may see them, but I will be AVOIDING them.

I personally use a J3455 based Celeron box with PFSense and my network couldn't be happier. If you want to use encrypted services like VPN's with good throughput you want a CPU with AES-NI, encrypt/decrypt instruction set. PFSense is FreeBSD based and has a solid network stack for these kind...

Why do they use the word VGA? Introducing the new EVGA 2080Ti BNC edition

I see most of these kind of articles from Tom's Hardware in my news feed, and a lot of it makes me upset because I know for a fact the article writer hasn't tested the hardware, just quoting specs. On paper and real-world are two very different things. Please see my previous quote but I agree...

I don't know if you are just learning about Single Board Computers, but there has been multitudes of solid, durability tested products since the original Pi has been introduced. Most people don't care about how fast a SBC's GPU is because 9 times out of 10 there are ZERO hardware accelerated...

This is the best time to switch to Linux. I am normally OS agnostic and find pros/cons in each platform, but after working in even the Medical Software industry I am horrified at how toxic these updates are becoming. I now use Manjaro and Kubuntu on all of my devices, I have Office 2016 and...

Yeah, those are the basic first steps I take. I just can't figure this one out.

As I said, I tried both on board DVI ports and then installed a dedicated Graphics card just to make sure it wasn't a display issue. Same with using a different monitor.