@travisdh1 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@dafyre said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@travisdh1 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

@DustinB3403 said in Installing Amazon Alexa on Raspberry Pi 3:

So this isn't something @travisdh1 would want to build and leave around?

Maybe in someone else's house. I haven't jumped on the automated assistant thing yet, I'm still quite leery of having something like that in the house.... yes, I know I carry one around in my pocket with the phone. Doesn't mean I use it.

Also doesn't mean you want yet another one reporting everything you say to the NSA.

@dafyre Are you sure you don't wear a tin foil hat as well? 😉

*quickly whips something shiney and metallic looking behind his back*

Who? Me. Never! *coughs to cover the sound of crumbled up tin foil landing in the trash can*

@DustinB3403 said in Asus Tinker Board Takes on the Raspberry Pi 3:

I would actually invest a decent chunk of money into SBC if the use cases weren't so fringe. (at least for me they are)

Raspian doesn't really do much for me, I suppose I need to find a decent use for these and then I'd use em.

But otherwise they're really low cost computers with an odd use case.

Debian and Ubuntu, I believe, are already set on this board.

@johnhooks said:

@Dashrender said:

I thought the Zero had no connectors, you had to soder on anything you wanted to connect

It only has 2 micro USB for data and power, and a micro sd card slot.

@johnhooks said:

@Dashrender said:

I thought the Zero had no connectors, you had to soder on anything you wanted to connect

It only has 2 micro USB for data and power, and a micro sd card slot.

Thanks, I should have looked before posting.
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Yes, after a decade of trying to buy these, suddenly the low power, low cost SBC market has exploded. Now you can get x86, AMD64, MIPS, ARM32, ARM64, FreeScale and more for cheap!

And SO tiny!!

@Dashrender said:

Does it run a flavor of linux that allows it to run all linux apps, most importantly GUI based linux apps?

That's what a full OS is. That was the point that it's not a phone OS but a full desktop.

@ajstringham said:

Would they look a little and feel a lot different on a touchscreen device? Yes. But for initial stages that would be awesome.

What benefit do you see to Android on a non-handheld device? It's a handheld focused OS. It's purpose is mobility. Putting it on a desktop just seems like a horrible desktop experience. What's the draw?