Basically more everything. 2x Cortex M33 cores with floating point, 520KB ram, more PIOs, bunch of secure boot stuff (I have mixed feelings about this), and can boot to a mode with risc-v cores instead of the M33s.
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Oh hey, Raspberry Pi still exists.
Did they ever fire that cop?
The Pico never really took off, honestly. I doubt this thing is going to fly off the shelves or anything.
How is this not considered spam?
This is literally just an ad for a product. It even has the price in the title for crying out loud!
And to top it off, it’s posted by an account that I’m pretty sure reported me for spam, because I posted a tech-philosophy essay where the site mentioned at the end that the essay was also published in a zine.
Lol, and just immediately downvoted. Lemmy needs that essay more than I thought! Too easy to be reactive without accountability on this platform, sadly
bunch of secure boot stuff (I have mixed feelings about this)
Is… secure boot considered controversial?
My usual experience with it is having to manually enroll a key on my laptop before I can install Linux or having to disable it entirely. Is the concern here that maybe this is a precursor to a more closed ecosystem?
I mean, there’s “secure boot” as a general concept, and then there’s “UEFI Secure Boot.”
The latter definitely had those concerns, especially around 2012 when it first became a thing and a lot of folks were concerned that Microsoft would try to use it to lock down devices to only run Windows. See also:
The level of concern seems like it’s died down a lot since then, not really so much because the Free Software community “won” but because Microsoft backed off a little bit and everybody kind of got used to it (and also because, at this point, we’ve got bigger fish to
fryjailbreak, such as Android devices and such). But that frog is still in the pot, and the water hasn’t cooled off…
As for the former, which is what this discussion is about since we’re obviously not talking about Microsoft or Windows, my cynicism is mostly about how secure boot is a feature obviously aimed at industrial/commercial users. In other words, it represents yet more distraction away from and neglect of the core constituencies – schoolchildren and hobbyists – that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is supposed to be serving.
I understand they want it to be a drop in replacement for the original Pico but I wish they upgraded the MicroUSB port to a USB-C port.
I guess third party for me again.
MicroUSB is absolutely one of the worst connectors ever designed, perhaps only surpassed by the SCART connector.
What was wrong with SCART? only thing I can think of is its bulkiness.
They broke all the time and you had to wiggle them often because of shoddy connectivity.
I don’t remember much problem with the connectivity with SCART. I do remember wasting many hours dealing with cheaply made cables that didn’t even wire all the pins however.
Which come to think of it is now becoming an issue with USB-C cables. At least with SCART the connector could be easily opened for inspection, which became a habit of many an AV tech.
