Raspberry Pi does what Microsoft can't! 

Prices have skyrocketed in my country. Have seen it for $350. Dwfuq. :(

@@bitstream_ same here.. 284€ as the only offer I can find insanity

@@permagnusandersson6052 I'm writing down all the stores/vendors that have overpriced to not ever buy from them again. I understand the supply/demand balance for pricing, but it's just an abuse to do that, and more with something that was supposed to be affordable. Hope you get a decently priced one soon 🤙I need 8 :( waiting for a decrease in price

Just grabbed a raspberry pi 4 2gb model for $95 after a huge sale (initially $180). The base price for this model should be $65 CAD. They have raised the price 3x. Oh well they are sold out everywhere.

@@bitstream_ ya total scam atm

This is something I didn't touch on in the video, but I'm right there with you. I think that's one huge distinguishing factor between Pi and other SBCs-I still have that dreadful feeling of "oh my gosh I might brick this thing by not following step 7 of 24 correctly to get it running" Versus with my Pi's, it's been at least 5 years since I bricked one. Red Shirt Jeff found his own way to cope with the stability, though...

Amazing developments !

@@JeffGeerling Yes that's 100% true, the Pi team has removed a ton of those feelings, and it's an amazing spot to be in! I've considered other boards in the past, especially with the shortages now, but the user experience just brings me back. I can't say I've ever bricked a Pi, so maybe that's further testament to the platform as a whole. Red Shirt Jeff would be very proud of all of the linux installs I've bricked over the years however ;)

@@duke_ferdinand3758 Hhmmm maybe we need a Red Shirt Jeff and a Red Shirt Duke video comparison? Topics for the video could include ... who has bricked more devices .... who has bricked the most Pis and a bonus would be who has done more physical damage to devices ????? 🙂

Shhhhhh. Year of the Linux Desktop is here. Any day now. ;-)

If I ever find a Microsoft URL in a BIOS I'll take them to court!

And you've been able to do it on your own for over a decade if not decades too... It's not new in either camp.

@@1pcfred Any modern computer contains code and certificates from MS in the UEFI boot loader as MS is currently the only company who has set up a signing authority for secure boot. It's not that they want to be the only one with that ability, it's that no one else is willing to invest the money to set up an independent signing authority.

@@Hans-gb4mv I run Linux and use legacy BIOS.

Heh, though if you're running Windows, and you haven't spent a bunch of time severing those connections already, it might as well be on their internal network :P

@@JeffGeerling true, but not from factory... The raspberry mecanism is open source and os agnostic... I don't picture it on a PC bios, specially since the last time it was "improved" with secure boot, it botched any os that weren't Microsoft's for years...

@@darioampuy you have a closed source firmware from MS in your Pi tho

@@retrocomputing you meant the visual studio secret code microsoft injected into raspbian that sends telemetry to their servers? well, it doesn't come integrated in the firmware and you can avoid it by installing plain debian for example, something that can't happen if that code came in the "bios" of the board from factory

@@darioampuy nnnope, I'm talking about ThreadX

Happy automating!

@@Quickcat21MK Smartphones have locked bootloaders, don't support Linux in any convenient way if you manage to unlock it, and are quite lacking in I/O ports (and lack any GPIO pins,) all for maybe 3x the price of an equivalent Raspberry Pi.

Neither of those; have only done Pi, Hardkernel, Rockchip.

@@JeffGeerling Sorry my brain is already doing weekend 😀 Hardkernel Odroid C2 is built with S905 chip. It could be a good replacement as the raspberrys are sold out. Anyway my question was about something else. Do you have any idea why in general, stuff is that crippled? Like new notebooks that run at lower network speeds (hp omen), windows vs ubuntu when download off unstable 4G, or odroid c2 vs raspberry 3 iperf benchmarking? Or about audio_effects.xml on android phones (sound effects that make sound bad), spotify applying audio effects (that make it sound "good" for most people but strange for old tracks), really low sample rate configs or just about any system files that hide in plain sight (check total commander on android..)? Or about video playback and the loss of quality during "compression" (patterns on anything out of focus or partial and inaccurate screen refresh? Or about MIPI (something like HDMI but proprietary and needed for any modern screen above 800x600)? After using linux for some time, how come, even the cursor seems to lag on windows? If you still read... Use jlsounds sound card and order displays off alibaba "with hdmi to mipi board". It will be a big improvement. Also, install clean operating system, uninstall pulseaudio. Make it yours

I mean pxe boot is usually a feature of the nic, and so it has to be enabled in uefi, but like on my machines running chelsio offload nics, I can enable it’s pxe boot functionality directly from its uefi plugin. Either way though, I’m missing which part of this Windows can’t do? I work at msft and network imaging is literally how we install or setup EVERYTHING. They even have it worked out so machines shipped from OEMs boot into a tool to load the current image the first time after unboxing rather than shopping with an OS installed. Plus it’s always been possible to use other bootloaders to my knowledge. Either way tho, this seems more like hardware/firmware than an OS feature to begin with.

For Mac's I believe they have a "mini shell" built into the BIOS that lets you do basic things like format and secure erase disks, plus install the OS. It is possible that this "mini shell" is stored on a partition on the disk though and maybe takes up so little space (like under 100MB) that it's not noticed when you format or look at the disk space free after formatting as most people probably assume it's consumed by the file system (as you do lose a percentage of your total available disk space on average to the file system, regardless of file system: FAT, EXT, NTFS, etc).

@@amnesia5490 confusing names: NetBoot vs Network Booting. As I understand it: NetBoot is PXE, and you’re right it depends on the on NIC. It pulls typically (always?) from a server on the local network. And you can determine which server it pulls from and configure what it’s going to pull. In my understanding, this doesn’t install the OS locally although from what you said it seems that might not always be the case. 🤷 Network Booting is pulling the OS from across the Internet and installing it locally after which it runs entirely from the local storage on that machine. As implemented on Raspberry Pi and macOS, the server it pulls from is specified in the motherboard firmware and it can only pull from that server. It is absolutely not user configurable. So it’s a another way to get a standard image from the computer manufacturer installed on the local storage. It doesn’t permit you to specify any other image including an image that you have created.

@@HR-wd6cw a Mac can start the process from a completely blank unformatted brand new disk so it’s not relying on something storied locally on a disk. It’s firmware based.

Same sort of thing here. I have the additional problem that none of my monitors have HDMI, so I either have to plug it into the TV in the living room, or find my adapter for VGA. You know, if I'm setting up my rPis as "headless", perhaps I should name a couple of them "Mami" and "Tomoe"? Yeah, bad joke.

Why is deployment a problem at all? Micro SD cards are really cheap. Just prepare any OS and prepare SSH or VNC. Then clone that. The clone will work the same but they get another ip address. You can keep some spares and just use the one you like

@@alexruedi1995 It's not a problem. They are just making it even easier by not needing another machine....ever. For me though I don't use SD cards. They usually crap out in about a year with all the reading and writing my deployments do.

@@JustinEmlay Yeah my sd cards do not live long neither.. Just tried to help..if you setup vnc you can see the screen on your ipad. not sure how or why it is advantage to not have to use another machine. My "other" machine is much faster, even at writing to sd cards, always running and the tool to use (whenever i need a display). Always use your advantages. In your case maybe some script that mounts your ssd and copies from sd card. Anyway, those two commands will be faster on my main computer and the installation includes this. So even in best case, it will take me longer

The local MC manager told me they get shipments every now and then... they're just sold out within minutes every time. You did, indeed, get lucky! Hopefully it won't take luck though as we get further into the year. This shortage has been painful!

True, but what I mean is the install target (at least on most of the newer M1 macs) is the internal soldered-in storage. On the Pi, it's pretty agnostic as to what you install to (NVMe, USB device, eMMC, microSD).

Most routers come with an Ethernet port (despite Starlink's new one not including it), and most include an Ethernet cable in the box. There are always exceptions, but every router I've bought in the past 20 years was that way. Even the cheapo ones ISPs send have it.

@@JeffGeerling not to mention if your main is down or otherwise occupied lets you keep rolling on other projects.

@Jesus has given you all. Repent or die. He preparest an sd card before me in the abscence of mine network cable.

@@JeffGeerling i think that was about access to pi for people who don't have computers for example, many people don't have wifi and would want to use pi to tinker around (including me). But atleast there's still the older way of using another computer, and usb tethering is helpful too

There’s nothing glossed over. It’s another option. It’s not like you can’t flash an SD card anymore or buy an SD card already flashed. But more than that, with the exception of Starlink as Jeff mentioned, every router that I have seen in the last ~30 years has had at least one LAN Ethernet port. And every single one of those included an Ethernet cable. So who do you think would want to use this but is going “darn I can’t because it doesn’t work over Wifi”? It’s right up there with complaining that someone who doesn’t own a car has no use for a spare tire.

Would be nice, though I'm not sure if they have the space available for that (I've heard there's only a few dozen KB left in the EEPROM at this point... might be enough but they don't want to fill it).

I didn't intend this to be something negative towards Microsoft, really-it's pretty much an impossible situation due to the way their OS is structured (officially supported on dozens of different manufacturer's systems). But I think it is important to highlight some of the benefits of the more vertical integration Pi has (while still being very OS agnostic; you can easily install any other OS compatible with the Pi through their own installer).

@@JeffGeerling LOL I was watching "This Raspberry Pi controls ANY PC (BliKVM)" when I saw the notice you replied.