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The Register: Revamped Raspberry Pi OS boasts Wayland desktop and improved imager tool

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The Register: Revamped Raspberry Pi OS boasts Wayland desktop and improved imager tool. “You might have missed it in the excitement over the announcement of the Raspberry Pi 5 at the end of September, but a couple of weeks later, the Raspberry Pi Foundation also updated Raspberry Pi OS. The new release is quite significantly different from previous versions, so we thought we should take it for a spin.”

Raspberry Pi 4 vs. Raspberry Pi 5: 14 Key Differences (MakeUseOf)

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MakeUseOf: Raspberry Pi 4 vs. Raspberry Pi 5: 14 Key Differences. “Launching in late October, the Raspberry Pi 5 offers numerous hardware upgrades compared to the Pi 4. Wondering which board to choose for your next project? Read on for a detailed comparison of these two single-board computers’ specifications and capabilities.”

Engadget: The Raspberry Pi 5 uses the company’s own chip designs

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Engadget: The Raspberry Pi 5 uses the company’s own chip designs. “It’s been four years since Raspberry Pi 4 was released, and since then, the company has only rolled out minor upgrades, including doubling the RAM for the base $35 version. Now, the company has officially launched Raspberry Pi 5, which is the first full-size computer from the brand that uses silicon it built in-house. It offers double or even triple the CPU performance of Raspberry Pi 4, with better graphics capability, thanks to its 800MHz VideoCore VII GPU.”

MakeUseOf: Navidrome Is the Perfect Self-Hosted Music Server for Raspberry Pi

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MakeUseOf: Navidrome Is the Perfect Self-Hosted Music Server for Raspberry Pi. “Streaming music is a feature of modern life, and most people are used to the convenience of services such as Spotify and YouTube. If you have a large, privately owned music collection, you can instead use Navidrome to stream your favorite tunes to your mobile devices and listen to internet radio.”

The Register: Tinker Tailor Soldier Pi? Asus’s ‘NUC-sized’ SBC aims to out-Pi the Raspberry

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The Register: Tinker Tailor Soldier Pi? Asus’s ‘NUC-sized’ SBC aims to out-Pi the Raspberry. ” Asus has released a new addition to its Tinker Board line of Arm-based single-board computer (SBC) systems, giving hobbyists and embedded developers another design option with a plethora of ports.”

MakeUseOf: Immich Is a Great Google Photos Alternative You Can Host on Raspberry Pi

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MakeUseOf: Immich Is a Great Google Photos Alternative You Can Host on Raspberry Pi. “Google Photos is the dominant photo storage and backup solution, effortlessly spiriting your images from your phone into the cloud. But if you don’t want to share your personal photos with Google, there are alternatives. While there are many self-hosted solutions you can host on Raspberry Pi, Immich stands head and shoulders above most competitors. It offers machine learning, multiple users, automatic image classification, facial recognition, native Android and iOS apps, and a host of other features.”

Hackaday: Recreating The Golden Era Of Cable TV

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Hackaday: Recreating The Golden Era Of Cable TV. “[Irish Craic Party] has gone to great lengths here to recreate the feel of cable TV from decades ago. It has recreations of real channels like HBO, Nickelodeon, and FX including station-appropriate bumpers and commercials. It’s also synchronized to the clock so shows start on the half- or quarter-hour. Cartoons play on Saturday morning, and Nickelodeon switches to Nick-at-Nite in the evenings.” Wow.

MakeUseOf: Memos Is a Simple Self-Hosted Alternative to Google Keep and Evernote

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MakeUseOf: Memos Is a Simple Self-Hosted Alternative to Google Keep and Evernote. “Cross-platform note-taking apps that allow you to sync and interact with notes and images across devices are essential if you want to stay organized. Synchronization needs to be handled by a central server, which means that your jottings are controlled by a third party you may not fully trust, and which can monitor or delete your content at will. By running Memos on Raspberry Pi, you control the server, and can take the privacy and security of your notes into your own hands. The article focuses a lot on privacy, but this will also work for those of you worried that Google will cancel Keep at any moment…

Tom’s Hardware: Raspberry Pi Turns Truck into Giant Dot Matrix Printer

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Tom’s Hardware: Raspberry Pi Turns Truck into Giant Dot Matrix Printer. “The printing process works by dropping splotches of water onto the road while the truck is driven. The water is dropped carefully to shape letters and form custom messages. The system is mounted to the back of the truck and controlled from inside the cabin using a web interface. As a message is parsed, a series of tubes direct water into position and activate precisely to create shapes much like a dot matrix printer.”

Make: Using ChatGPT and Raspberry Pi To Build A Never Ending Story Book

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Make: Using ChatGPT and Raspberry Pi To Build A Never Ending Story Book. “Most people will agree that the biggest and most common problem with a good story, is that it ends. This project, put together by Erin St. Blaine for Adafruit address that with the unending capabilities of ChatGPT and a Raspberry Pi.”

Slashgear: This Awesome Raspberry Pi Project Can Track The International Space Station

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Slashgear: This Awesome Raspberry Pi Project Can Track The International Space Station . “Around the web, there are various tools that allow users to track the International Space Station’s orbit. The European Space Agency, for instance, shows the station’s approximate location, as well as where it was 90 minutes back and where it will be an hour and a half in the future. An enterprising Raspberry Pi user, however, has been able to emulate the effect of this high-tech software using a humble ePaper display and some Python coding.”

Review Geek: Raspberry Pi Debuts a Code Editor for Young People

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Review Geek: Raspberry Pi Debuts a Code Editor for Young People. “Python is the preferred coding language for beginners (particularly young people), as it’s the most intuitive language utilized by professionals. For this reason, Raspberry Pi’s Code Editor uses Python (specifically the standard library and P5). Support for web development languages, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will arrive at a later date.”

The Verge: This AI clock uses ChatGPT to generate tiny poems that tell the time

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The Verge: This AI clock uses ChatGPT to generate tiny poems that tell the time. “ChatGPT has been one of the internet’s favorite toys for months now, but people are still finding novel and fun ways to use the AI chatbot. Case in point is this rhyming E Ink clock created by designer and blogger Matt Webb. It uses ChatGPT to create a short two-line rhyme that also tells the time for every minute of the day.”

Ars Technica: You can now run a GPT-3-level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi

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Ars Technica: You can now run a GPT-3-level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi. “Things are moving at lightning speed in AI Land. On Friday, a software developer named Georgi Gerganov created a tool called ‘llama.cpp’ that can run Meta’s new GPT-3-class AI large language model, LLaMA, locally on a Mac laptop. Soon thereafter, people worked out how to run LLaMA on Windows as well. Then someone showed it running on a Pixel 6 phone, and next came a Raspberry Pi (albeit running very slowly).”