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Revised Raspberry Pi 5 chip comes with unexpected power savings (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Does it still require the stupid 5V5A power adapter?

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah wrf was that? Even the risc64 visionfive2 used usbpd properly.

It's 2024 and we live in a society.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

Seems to be a constant problem with the Rasbperry Pi Foundation designs. They've often screwed up their power design.

Not that using shitty old phone chargers was ever going to work, but it should never have been as picky as it was.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Pi 5 doesn't require 5v 5amp. You just get limited power on downstream USB devices (like max 1 or 0.5 amp, not really that bad). It will run just fine on 3 amp PSU.