Life at 800 MHz

Re:Life at 800 MHz by DwnVoteHoneyPot on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:41PM (#29937463)

What is the allure and purpose of going back to 800 Mhz? I mean I did it myself this week, but was frustrated enough to think it's a really dumb idea, waste of time. I can't even articulate why I did it in the first place.

I used a Raspberry Pi 4 (1500 Mhz) as a daily driver for 4 days. Struggled with hidpi scaling, no Signal Messenger, overheating CPU, Youtube at 360p, HTML Gmail.

I went so far to upgrade Pi to SSD, plus heat sink. Considering adding active cooling... but the said nope, back to Macbook Pro. Why do we even try?

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Re:Life at 800 MHz by freebreakfast on Friday January 14, 2022 @02:48PM (#29939400)

Change your workflow. You cannot expect a less powerful system to perform the same as a more powerful system.

Rather than watching YouTube directly, use youtube-dl with VLC. Rather than using HTML Gmail, use IMAP and a native email client. Rather than using Eclipse, use vim.

We all fall into patterns. We grow to find comfort in those. But, we can't expect to maintain those patterns when circumstances change.

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Re:Life at 800 MHz by DwnVoteHoneyPot on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:26PM (#29939939)

Thanks for the good suggestions. I'll try them out if I ever find a reason to try again!

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Re:Life at 800 MHz by MisterTea on Friday January 14, 2022 @02:01PM (#29938672)

> Why do we even try?

Depends on how hard you want to try or compromise on.

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