The Raspberry Pi Thread [6]

Still, killing nage screens, and picking away at custom customizations. About the only good thing I can say is, it's been a while since i last had to do this.

I have had my Raspberry Pi 5/8GB since December 8. I boot using a 64GB USB flash drive.

Sometimes I like to use the RealVNC viewer to connect to my Pis. Unfortunately, it doesn't work with the new Bookworm OS for the Pi. However, there is a workaround. To get it to work I have to switch from Wayland to the X11 mode. I will use that until there is a RealVNC viewer that does work with Wayland.

Pi OS 12 Bookworm, has really shaken things up, software wise. And you have no choice but to run it on a Pi 5. Fingers crossed mine ships any day now.

alphanumeric said:

Pi OS 12 Bookworm, has really shaken things up, software wise. And you have no choice but to run it on a Pi 5. Fingers crossed mine ships any day now.

Where did you order the Pi 5 from, when did you order it, and when do you expect to get it?

I just happened to find out about the Pi 5 on the day it launched September 28, 2023. I pre-ordered the Pi 5, official P/S, and official red/white case the same day as that. I didn't get it until December 5.

BTW, when I place my order, it was only supposed to take 4-6 weeks. That turned in until almost 10 weeks. Keeping my fingers crossed didn't help.

The order took so long for two reasons:

1. Most of the first shipment went to people that paid for subscriptions to either The MagPi or Hackspace magazines. I was unlucky that PiShop.us was designated as the seller handling distributions to these magazine subscribers in North America. I had to get in line after them.
2. PiShop.us didn't ship partial shipments. The order was held up for at least two weeks waiting for the official red/white case.

I ordred mine from Pimoroni on Nov 5th. I didn't have the cash on launch day. I'm in Batch 2 of their Pre-orders, which are shipping any day now. It just depends on where I am in the que.
I ordered an 8GB Pi 5, Official Cooler, Pibow Ninja case, power supply, HDMI cables etc. I also have the NVMe base with 500 GB SSD on Pre-order that is also shipping any day now.

NVMe Base for Raspberry Pi 5 - NVMe Base

What a PITA Windows is for getting it how You want it.
Anyway, a reinstall was long over due. Now to put the SSD I swapped out to good use.
I think I'll set it up as the boot drive on my Pi 400. It's already all set up hardware wise, with a monitor, keyboard and mouse.

My Pi 5 order status shows as "Picked", Preparing for shipping.
It goes, Created , Paid, Picked, Packed, Shipped.

I code from my PC and or Pi using the Thonny IDE. As we know the code is run on the actual Micro Controller. I never knew you could do the same thing with a Pi though?
My brother in law is big on VS coding. He worked for the Canadian Government coding up GUI type stuff for them. I have zero skills with VS.
There was something Microsoft put out for a Raspberry Pi that was VS studio based. Dammed if I can remember what it was though? Very limited and I struggled to get anywhere, and just gave up. I would have pushed on but it wasn't what I thought it was when I went down that road.

Python was the go to for Raspberry Pi stuff when I bought my first one, so that's what I learned to use. And most of my add on displays are Pimoroni SPI Breakout Garden so I go with their drivers.

Being a glutton for punishment, I went back to an SSD on my Desktop PC, and one again reinstalled Windows 10 from scratch. I bought a bigger better faster SSD. The other one had been formatted anyway.

The "Video" SATA drive ended up being slower than a standard SATA Spinner drive. It's optimized for sequential read / writes and sucks at random read / writes. Not what you want for your OS drive. It will make a good drive for doing backups, once I buy a nice USB 3 or USB C enclosure for it.