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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by ajsnigrutin on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:17AM (#24966435)
Android phones are useles... no ethernet, no gpio, shitty cooling, hard to get an OS installed, hard to debug, and compared to RPI4, too expensive.

RPi4 is great... small cheap, basically a full pc in a small box, with low power usage, low heat production, no noise, and yes... with a shitty storage solution.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by gtf21 on Monday November 02, 2020 @06:09AM (#24966752)
I think the parent comment was just pointing out that the storage solution should work fine, given how many android devices use it.
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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by kingosticks on Monday November 02, 2020 @07:57AM (#24967643)
Some Android phones use (or used to use?) flash-friendly file system formats like F2FS, JFFS2, YAFFS2. I'm not sure if that's still a thing but it would be interesting to know the pros and cons of using one of those instead. Interesting I did find they are/were considering F2FS for the RPi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=2734...
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Re:Raspberry Pi 400 Desktop PC by Rebelgecko on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:22AM (#24969758)
Even with the cost of a $5 ethernet adapter, you can get Android phones significantly cheaper than a Raspberry Pi.

GPIO is a bit trickier, since most devices don't break it out, but for some purposes the audio jack is usable. There's also USB-GPIO adapters but they can be a bit pricey (although if you're interfacing with something like an ESP32 BLE works really well)

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