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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 02:24:08 JST goatsarah

   Finally got myself an official Pi 5 power supply, so hopefully the thing won't just randomly die under load any more.

   Raspberry Pi Foundation love making videos about their "not invented here" approach to power supplies, but guys, you actually suck at it and your continued inability to implement USB C Power Delivery (and PoE) sensibly is getting fucking old.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 02:28:46 JST goatsarah

     in reply to

     "I want 27 watts!"

     "This is a laptop PSU. It'll do well over a hundred."

     "No! Useless! I die now! Starved of power!"

     Fucksake.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 03:52:01 JST goatsarah

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     • joshie 🏳️‍🌈

     @6a62 Particularly because it ONLY works with their PSU. It will boot up massively degraded from anything else, but at less capability than a Pi 4 (like, it will disable USB boot and if you force enable it, it will randomly die from lack of power).

     And don't get me started on the PoE hats that scream and function as heaters when the pi shuts down.

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     joshie 🏳️‍🌈 (6a62@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 03:52:03 JST joshie 🏳️‍🌈

     in reply to

     @goatsarah oooohhh but if we implement USB-PD and use anything >5V then we would have to add another voltage regulation stage and ooooohhh woe is me

     i understand their "lets not add cost for a feature only 2% of users might actually want" philiosphy, but yeah no fuck off pi foundation. power delivery is not one of those things worth saving 12 cents a board on