Building a New Computer: My Experience with MSI and Raspberry Pi 5

Cancer has been good, all clear. Still unemployed looking into doing something new. But, recently I am in need of a new computer. My old motherboard died. I am building a new one with a MSI micro ATX board. I came dead. I went through MSI to get it fixed and It will take over a month. Should have just went through amazon for the return.

But I am now writing this on my raspberry pi 5 and so far so good. I have even been gaming on it through xbox streaming. I installed discord and I am waiting for my usb audio jack dongle to arrive and I will be gaming and playing on my raspi5 just like I was on my desktop. Although I am missing my steam library. wish I was able to access that somehow. but my computer will get fixed eventually.

I have tried to go all linux many times over the years and always found that there was something that I couldn’t do. Gaming I have no need to do on this raspi5. here is my todo list for the software I would like.

Done

  • discord
  • office software (office.com on the web)
  • audio out (usb headphone jack dongle)
  • 3d cad (onshape on web)
  • email (yahoo and private serve web mail)

Todo

  • slicer
  • pcb (kcad – have used in the past. just have to install it)
  • more to come…

Cancer update

I just got back from my 2nd treatment of 6. Next one is on Oct 19th. I was diagnosed with mediastinal B-cell lymphoma. It has a high success rate.

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