Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: New Pi 5 (Diversity - good or bad ?) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:00:03 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <9uo3ojpd83jm9ngmlhera3nvi00pl9ajeb@4ax.com> <3w-dnT3j2Mwylx76nZ2dnZfqnPadnZ2d@earthlink.com> <7f643264-8754-c536-97a4-04269434c456@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="8323328-1555058000-1736888405=:3211" Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3619125"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:64355 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-1555058000-1736888405=:3211 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Mon, 13 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > On 1/13/25 4:32 AM, D wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: >> >>> On 1/12/25 1:42 PM, D wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, root wrote: >>>> >>>>> Lars Poulsen wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Yes, but then I'd have to find or make an enclosure that fits the board >>>>>> SET. >>>>> >>>>> An enclosure is purely cosmetic. I attached my Pi5 to a piece of >>>>> cardboard with zip-ties and hung it down the back of my desk. >>>>> >>>> >>>> My other TV computer, a radxa zero, dangles off the hdmi cable, and I've >>>> attached it to the back of the OLED tv with some tape. It's lived happily >>>> there for a year or so at the moment. >>> >>>  Try Velcro or double-sided tape ... works great for >>>  sticking a Pi to whatever  :-) >> >> Once my wife complains too loudly, this is _exactly_ what I will try! My >> estimate is that the next time the tape let's go, and it sort of sticks out >> from behind the tv, that is the time I will be going down the velcro or >> double sided tape route. ;) > > I think it was rbowman I was talking to - the > boss wanted 'muzak' for the office. So, I took > an old Pi-1/256mb and a few long muzak tracks > from 70s shopping malls and sneaked the wiring > into the PA system. The tracks rotate every > month. Worked for a dozen years and likely STILL > does - so long as none of the muzak haters FIND > the thing. > > There was about an inch behind where the PBX system > was ... so I velcroed the unit to the back of the > PBX box where it's almost perfectly invisible :-) > > Proper muzak - you shouldn't actually HEAR it unless > you TRY. Keeps some little corner of the brain occupied > and, according to some, thus actually improves performance > on other tasks. > It could very well become the last piece of operating machinery on planet earth. Could you imagine the sun expanding, swallowing the earth while your little muzak machine plays the perfect muzak for the event? ;) --8323328-1555058000-1736888405=:3211--