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Ouch: The Raspberry Pi 5 just hit an eye-watering $385 (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] offspec@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

With FEX and 16GB of ram you can probably play low power PC games without much issue now, it's just a computer

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It seems really antithetical to the whole point of raspberry pi. Like a lowered/slammed truck that can't carry anything, or a bicycle with 100 training wheels and a gas motor.

It's like they've lost the plot.

It would be one thing if it was done by a user for fun, or otherwise was the exception to the rule. But having a $400 raspberry pi is ridiculous.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You're not wrong but...

A whole x86 SoC for reading a dial and controlling some RGB LEDs and a dot matrix display is ridiculous. Microcontrollers are IFAIK still as cheap as ever.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

A whole x86 SoC for reading a dial and controlling some RGB LEDs and a dot matrix display is ridiculous.

I wouldn't use a Pi for that either as this can all be done with a $5 ESP32

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But for the same money you can buy a real mini PC and not have to emulate them...

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think I'd call FEX or proton emulation, but yeah

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think Fex is. They even describe it that way themselves.

Proton probably isn't. It's WINE with extra steps, isn't it?

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I mean there are definitely different kinds of emulation, I don't usually consider mapping library calls and dynamic/static recompilation to be emulation in the same way I think of like a ps2 emulator, but it's not inaccurate to say. I just wouldn't call them emulation personally.