• thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it’s impossible to get a pi4 now for msrp. Maybe they should work out their production issues before launching a new device.

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      1 year ago

      Chances are pi 4 availability will be back after this. Since everyone will be wanting to buy the new one.

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          1 year ago

          They’ve generally not been that scarce or unaffordable when I’ve seen them. But I haven’t purposely gone out looking for them. Haven’t really needed to look for them. I still have my original pi’s 1,2,3,and 4s all in working order. But even the back in the depths of 2020-2021 and 2022 when Raspberry Pi 4’s were almost impossible to come by. I would still regularly see two and three’s for sale.

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            1 year ago

            I was trying to acquire Pis from 2020-2022, and I was on every waiting list from every supplier, and if I was even 10 minutes late after getting the in stock email, they’d be out of stock. I had to wait like 9 months for digikey to fill my 3b+ order in 2022.

            The only way I could get one was to buy them from scalpers.

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              1 year ago

              We were lucky enough to have a MicroCenter in the area so that probably definitely helped a little bit.

              But all of that is part of the reason why I’m actually more excited for some of the new risk V Systems coming out. I think they are probably going to end up filling in what the pi used to be. But only time will tell. We still have yet to see how open the device trees and full driver support will be. But the idea of being able to get one and just slap any binary compatible version of Linux on there and not having to track down the proprietary drivers is a very desirable outcome.

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                1 year ago

                There are dozens of SBCs out there now that are as good, if not better than pis and are actually available. I’ve never heard of or had to install proprietary drivers on any of them.