Notes on the Raspberry Pi 3 B

• You should probably buy a Pi 4 at this point.
• I have a 64GB SanDisk SD card. It's kind of painful to get it working with the Pi because the Pi wants it to be FAT32 and FAT32 isn't too happy with more than 2^32 bytes. I ultimately had to use EaseUS to format it, be sure to set the partition type to Primary.
• The MacBook Pro let me down, it couldn't recognize the SD card. Tried with a 2GB and 4GB SandDisk, it recognized those just fine.
• I could not get n00bs to work. Kept getting an error that it couldn't resize the FAT partition. Ended up using Win32DiskImage to write the Raspbian image to the SDCard after formatting it.
• If Raspberry is going to be so stinking picky about the power supply, the Pi should ship with a genuine one. I tried many, many cellphone USB adapters. Ultimately, that wasn't the problem (and I haven't retried them yet), but once I solved the real problem (SDCard) I powered it with the MacBook Pro USB-C to USB genuine Apple dongle and it still gave me the insufficient power lightning bolt in the UI. I ordered a genuine Raspberry power supply but Amazon doesn't guarantee delivery for a week! Of course, Hurricane Dorian is causing some disruption.