My "desktop" computer

a year ago by Hellfire103 to c/battlestations

SubArcticTundra 3 points a year ago

I love how Raspberry Pis can just be the main computer nowadays. Although I do miss the days of rig building

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Valmond 2 points a year ago

What's the external GPU or what?

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not_woody_shaw 3 points a year ago

I was gonna say "that's obviously a printer," buy actually that thingie north of the mouse pad is kinda intriguing.

The mouse looks really uncomfortable tho. My thumb extends from the side of my hand, not the middle of my palm. I actually tried one that shape years ago but I had to return it due to hand pain.

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hellfire103 5 points a year ago

The thing north of the mousepad is the computer. A Raspberry Pi 5, to be exact.

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not_woody_shaw 1 point a year ago
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Valmond 1 point a year ago

Oh yes of course!

No enclosure ?!! /j

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hellfire103 2 points a year ago

I just put one on after posting this. I had it off because I was taking the SD card in and out a lot while trying to find the right OS.

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hellfire103 2 points a year ago

I don't have an external GPU, although it would probably be a good idea for games.

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Valmond 1 point a year ago

How's it holding up to gaming?

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hellfire103 2 points a year ago

17 fps in Minecraft (though that's on 1.21.1, and I can probably tweak my mod setup to improve that). Usually a lot higher in older versions.

The other games I play tend to be either retro (e.g. Wolfenstein 3D) or pixel-based (e.g. Terraria), so they run fine. I use Steam under Box64 for that. I haven't tried games like TF2 or GMod yet, but I'm told they should be decently playable.

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Valmond 1 point a year ago

Yeah Minecraft is java hell 😁 cool for the rest!

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hellfire103 2 points a year ago

Actually the exact same hardware as in this post; just tidied up, with a new printer, and in a different room about 112 km away.

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Kolanaki 2 points a year ago

What's the thing just above the mouse that's plugged into like 3 or 4 other things?

Is your whole machine just a Raspberry Pi? :O

I didn't know windows could run on those. Unless that's just a Gnome/KDE skin to look a bit like Windows? I can't read anything on the screen to tell for sure. 🤣

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hellfire103 1 point a year ago

So, the thing above the mouse is the Raspberry Pi. As for the OS, I'm running Linux with IceWM, using the NanoBlue, DarkCold, and Oxygen themes.

The distribution started out as Raspberry Pi OS, but I made some modifications and also upgraded to Debian/Raspbian Trixie, so it's really more Debian now, only with the Raspbian repo added.

There is an aarch64 version of Windows, designed to run on those Snapdragon-based laptops, and some people do run it on their Pis; but in my opinion, that's a wholly unethical waste of that sort of hardware. /hj

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