“a little tricky to assemble and insert the memory card with fat fingers but went together correctly after a few tries
connected to a TV network, local hard drive, wireless mouse and keyboard straight away
started up okay but you need to be very patient while it installs and does uptakes (beware screen blanking fooling you into thinking it has crashed or completed)
once it was all done a dumb tv is now a smart tv with video streaming from my server, the internet and local drive”
“A useful kit for the new Pi user. The SD card takes a few minutes to configure the operating system when you first power up the Pi, but its really useful to have everything set up automatically ready for use.”
“I am very much a novice at computing and manipulating packages+hardware. However, the Pi platform in tandem with the online resources makes entry-level projects very accessible to those wanting a first try at building platforms without buying rafts of hardware. The Pi platform is very versatile and, specifically, the Pi 4 is very powerful. If I had a gripe it would be the absence of a second ether port. All USB3-eth dongles I have tried are proving problematic/unusable. But router-on-a-stick using OpenWRT has been a doddle to create.”
