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As a shooting enthusiast, there are remarkably similar websites for finding ammo. Funny that we're facing similar problems...
The difference is, there's been an ammo shortage for like 10 years now.
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This, it baffles me to no end that people insist on using Raspberry Pis, which are almost comically slow and not really that energy efficient, to run things like K8s scheduled containers, sometimes even buying $200 backplane boards to do so, which also defeats almost any sort of price advantage. There has to be something about the Pi that drives this, but I can't figure out what it is. Yes, Raspbian is easy to get st…
What you're missing is that it's not about compute, it's about fun. Pi's are fun, because Pi cluster's have _real_ hardware redundancy and real risk of hardware faults. Clusters of VM's are boring (what's the point of having a cluster then?), and NUCs are too expensive to buy three or five of. Clusters of real servers are even more expensive, and living room incompatible. Energy efficiency does not matter: First, a P…
Also, this explains why I had such a hard time finding a RPi some time ago on Amazon by itself. I could only buy them as a package deal.
Will this get worse once Ethereum switches to proof-of-stake? (Compute power isn’t as much of a factor with PoS as it is for PoW) Also, this explains why I had such a hard time finding a RPi some time ago on Amazon by itself. I could only buy them as a package deal.
Are there any alternatives to RPs in the <$100 range that are more available?
Some barebones NUCs with little/no memory also come in under $100. Lower power, smaller size, still no GPIO.
If you need the small size and/or GPIO and aren't concerned about GPL violations, a 32 bit Orange Pi with 256MB memory starts at $20 shipped.
If you live near a Micro Center, they always seem to have them in stock. They sell them in-store only.
Are there any alternatives to RPs in the <$100 range that are more available?
Follow https://www.cnx-software.com/ for a while and you'll see them come out regularly. Or just click a few pages back into history.
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The Pis, and especially the compute module forms, are used for more than just clasroom toys and low power geek desktops. The CMs are a long term support item that, in recent forms, are FCC certified with wireless. Because it's a "module," with onboard wireless/antenna/etc, you don't have to perform the (quite expensive) certification tests for a wide range of products that can then have a perfectly good little comput…
Yeah, same. I have an ag robotics application that I can prototype with stock on hand (glad I prebought a few Pi Zero W now) but I won't be able to scale up my test fleet for the foreseeable future, and that's going to be a problem.
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The market must be trying to tell us that they're under-priced. People want cheap computers badly, and "cheap" might be as much as $200. I had a lot of trouble finding an x86_64 box for under $400 a couple years ago, and ended up settling for a no-name with a shitty firmware that wouldn't boot GRUB for half the distros I tried to install.
Honestly if your budget is raspberry pi levels you are better off probably buying some used dell desktop for as cheap as possible. Would be more powerful than the pi probably and a better platform for things like a home fileserver. People have built clusters out of those ultra low form factor dells.
I do appreciate the effort here; however, I suspect this is going to make it even harder to find affordable units due to how fast the scalpers scoop up any readily discoverable inventory. I’ve been struggling to come up with 35 for a class I teach in the March. I would typically have my students buy their own devices, but pivoted when I saw the writing on the wall. Until this tracker was published yesterday, the Pi H…
No one is scalping Pis. They simply aren't valuable enough to scalp. There is a massive electronics shortage, in case you haven't heard.
And that wasn't even an 8GB model.