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How much computer power do you actually need 2024?

The Raspberry Pi 5 (Ubuntu)

Since I seem to only publish one of these podcasts per year, I return with another one and a brand new Raspberry pi to do it on.

I am going to try and only use (except for printing) my Raspberry pi 5 for all of my day to day computer use, that includes;

  • Emails

  • Research

  • Podcast planning and writing

  • Session planning and writing

  • Audio recording, editing and publishing

  • Logo and image design and publishing

  • Story writing

  • File management

  • Show broadcasting

All of these task can be performed on a Pi 4… slowly, so on a 5 it should be a little easier but we will see.

For my work set up as mentioned in the podcast, I will still continue to use my Pi 4 with Android and carry out my working week there.

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The Christmas lights that guide us so

It’s got to be a favourite time of year.

All hail the jolly fat Man

The purpose of this post is , I cannot at the moment go out and hike, I am too unwell. I went for a walk today and did 21000 steps. I was encouraged by the mic on the OnePlus Nord phone, it’s not amazing by any suggestions but good enough to get me out of trouble should I forget the Tascam, or run out of batteries, we know that has happened before, several times.

The next podcast or the one after will be coming from CORNWALL! The long awaited big hike, that I feel I am now not ready for, yikes!!!

The Featured image was taken by my Sister Fatifleur.

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Midway through the week

Here is an update for I don’t want to say downgrading my computer but it kind of looks like that. I have been using the Raspberry Pi 400 as a my main computer since Sunday, so far I have;

  • Written invoices with ‘Gimp’ – no problems
  • Recorded, edited and published a podcast – no problems
  • Built a new page for the website using terminal and studio – no problems
  • Edited photos – no problems
  • Surfed the main and deep webs – no problems
  • Played youtube tutorials – slight video lag but audio worked well

Not all is good however the problems are minor;

  • Now that I have upgraded my home screen to look modern, I don’t have an off function other than through the terminal
  • Audio is not a problem at all for podcasts and music, video I suspect will be a problem
  • Upon boot it doesn’t like my USB3 extender to be plugged in
  • Connecting to a new wifi was a problem and I had to add add new wifi to the task bar

Yesterday I took it to work to use and discovered the above wifi problem, in the end it wasn’t the 400, it was the signal from my phone as a hotspot in the building where I work was poor. The 400’s performance was great, I didn’t get anything done though.

Conclusion (so far)

It is looking like a capable computer for everyday use, reminds of a laptop from 4 years ago with it’s 4gb operation. I did buy this Pi with the intention of using it as a regular computer and now I have spent time setting it up, I believe I will continue. However, there are still 4 days left of the experiment.

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