Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers

Re:Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers by StrangeATractor on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:21PM (#35979959)

The only gripe I have about this is that it appears to be dependent on a microsd card for storage. Is there an alternative? I've been burned one too many times by corrupted storage on those to go there again.

Other than that, I want five of these.

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Re:Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers by sqfmi on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @03:32PM (#35980103)

Corrupted storage is a pain :( The Beepberry firmware can safely shutdown the Pi before disconnecting power, so hopefully that will help with SD issues. raspi-config also has a read-only overlay filesystem option now.

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Re:Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers by bityard on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:34PM (#35980926)

I started buying high endurance SD cards years ago and have never had a problem with them.

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Re:Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers by csdvrx on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @09:32PM (#35983274)

BTW are they more sensible to X rays? I've had one die early.

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Re:Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers by kajecounterhack on Thursday May 18, 2023 @03:39AM (#35985065)

+1 they're quite cheap now -- as of writing, $17 for a samsung 128gb, $15 for sandisk 128gb on Amazon. I have a fleet of Raspberry Pi that have been using these cards.

The other thing you can do is to buy two and clone your SD card (or back your card up as a `.img`).

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