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Natal@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoYeah, possibly, I might be a contrarian but I’m tired of cloud services, subscriptions, big corporations. I’m also tired of multipurpose devices that do plenty of things poorly. I just want a screen that shows me how to get somewhere, reliably. My phone from two years ago simply stopped being recognized by the car, bought a new one for that single purpose, and this fella already crashes too.
I didn’t go crazy on the budget but it worked initially and now it doesn’t at all so I’m tired of this bad tech. If I build my own, my hope is that I can make it more resilient and easier to repair/fix.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh I get it. I wasn’t trying to throw shade or discourage you. And I think the world of SBCs makes this a lot more doable than it was back then, but there may be less of a community to help than there once was though there are definitely still one-offs making it happen raspberrypi.com/…/diy-in-car-entertainment-displa….
I wish you the best of luck.
Natal@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I didn’t take it as throwing shade :) I just thought I’d provide more context, though reading it back now it looks more like a rant.
Another person here pointed me to the Crankshaft too. It looks cool but it still uses a phone. I’ll try to erase this silicon slab from the equation entirely. From my personal experience over the years, phones have become a hindrance more than a supportive gadget.
I think i’ll go ahead and give it a try. I just need to figure out a way to cool the device properly in a hot environment.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I admittedly didn’t look super closely at the projects that have been linked, but my guess would be that the phone can be replaced with SW on the Pi. Something like volumio that was linked, or Navidrome for music.
Mapping was always kid of a mess when I looked at this kind of thing in the past, and I don’t think it has gotten any better.
If it’s the phone hardware you don’t like, rather than the software, there’s always LineageOS on a Pi (konstakang.com/devices/rpi5/LineageOS22/) as an option. Then you can still use whatever SW the phone would have had on it.