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   On a sunny day (Fri, 23 Aug 2024 07:09:03 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Lawrence   
   D'Oliveiro  wrote in :   
      
   >On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 06:19:06 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >   
   >> In the old days I had to buy a decoder key from Raspberry to even look   
   >> at mpeg!   
   >   
   >Presumably that was only to activate the decoder hardware. Otherwise   
   >FFmpeg, VLC etc could play it just fine, just with a bit more CPU usage.   
      
   I would not play smooth.   
      
   PS:   
   Maybe good to look around a bit:   
    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/what-i-learned-when-i-r   
   placed-my-cheap-pi-5-pc-with-a-no-name-amazon-mini-desktop/   
      
   My core I5 Samsung laptop, now > 10 years old, is soooo much faster   
   browsing with Ubuntu and firefox.   
      
   ARM is not a solution to everything.   
      
   Sure GPIO is cool,   
   but I have PCI cards with parport for I/O in my normal PCs..   
   So maybe for I/O applications just use a <10 dollar Pico2?   
   (at least it also has a RISC core?)   
   Have not ordered one yet... Not in the online shop here yet last monday.   
      
   Or if no extreme speed is needed I use Microchip PICs:   
    https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/pic/index.html   
     You do not need a filesystem if you have only one 'subject' that needs   
     storing data, just write sector by sector.   
      https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/quadcopter/index.html   
      
   Too much bloat these days and Linux with all the rathead shit is becoming a   
   nuisance.   
      
   We went to the moon in the sixties of last century and came back   
   with computing power less than a Raspberry.   
   Now astronuts  get stuck on the ISS with billions of dollars and sup[p]er   
   computers to do the work.   
      
   Back to basics guys!   
      
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