I installed libreelec on my Raspberry Pi 4 the first day I had it. The CPU immediately started (while playing 1080p video) to heat a lot to the point it stalled. Since I haded a motherboard chipset heatsink that I had laying around on the CPU it worked flowlessly. (I keep it without any case)
This was exactly my intended use case - as a gift for relatives - the problem I've had is that I need it enclosed to prevent tiny little fingers from getting hurt/destroying the thing. Tried soak testing it one night and experienced the same thing :/
Currently I'm hoping that I can modify the case this weekend to fulfill my needs.
As something intended to be used by kids to learn about computing I do wonder how many are going to get hurt fingers from the heat output by accidentally maxing the cpu and/or touching the USB ports, etc.
> As something intended to be used by kids to learn about computing I do wonder how many are going to get hurt fingers from the heat output by accidentally maxing the cpu and/or touching the USB ports, etc.
Sounds like one of the unexpected lessons will be heat dissipation :)
