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Re:Orange Pi 800 Keyboard PC – A Raspberry Pi 400 alternativ... by NonNefarious on Monday June 06, 2022 @09:31PM (#31648803)
The other is the ridiculously shitty micro-HDMI ports. Why did they cripple the 400 with this junk?

Micro-HDMI should never, never be used unless the device is so small that a regular HDMI is impossible to implement. Even then... you should probably just make the device bigger.

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Re:Orange Pi 800 Keyboard PC – A Raspberry Pi 400 alternativ... by ahartmetz on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @03:10AM (#31650820)
Ah yes... to explain: they require adapters, and these adapters are mechanically fragile - tugging the cable can break them. Ask me how I know...
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Re:Orange Pi 800 Keyboard PC – A Raspberry Pi 400 alternativ... by NonNefarious on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @08:18PM (#31661691)
The ports themselves are mechanically fragile. You're not just breaking an adapter; you're breaking the device itself.

Which why one should also not buy Canon's "cinema" cameras (R5 C) that are similarly crippled with micro-HDMI (but astronomically more expensive).

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Re:Orange Pi 800 Keyboard PC – A Raspberry Pi 400 alternativ... by ahartmetz on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @03:22AM (#31664330)
I thought of it - I can be happy that the adapter broke, maybe they are weak on purpose.
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