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Raspberry Pi.
It's so bloody hard to find one that's below $100 and not a Zero model.
hard to find at retail price nowadays
I've been waiting for the availability to go up and the price to go down
I quit waiting for them to come back in stock. I ended up getting a Libre Computer Le Potato. 30-40$ on Amazon and so far it works just fine. The OS is a bit of a pain to install, but if you're familiar with Linux you should be good
Oh, never heard of those. They look pretty much a like Raspberry Pi. How is it compared to a Raspberry Pi, in your opinion?
So far it seems faster than my pi3. The extra RAM really helps. It is missing the camera ribbon cable connection but I got an Arduino USB cam instead. I am just using it as a 3d printer controller running fluidd, so not really pushing the limits on the board.
The only issue is with their boot loader/BIOS. You can't power off the board unless you run shutdown -H now. Otherwise it will just reboot. Since this is an always on device I am not too worried about that. It was just a bit of troubleshooting for my automated shutdown scripts.
Not upset with my purchase and might get another one for tinkering
Honest question - how else would you shut it down? That's the only way I know of...
I normally use sudo poweroff I think it is an alias on most systems. I found it way back and just got used to using it
The problem is you need a time machine and that's well over 100
Any SBC works, but yea even just for pihole alone it's worth it.
why should everyone own a Raspberry Pi?
I own a raspberry pi 4b that I use as a torrent client. Any suggestions for anything fun I can do with it? Feels like everything from c/selfhosted is critical and too risky to put on the pi.
I mostly host my projects on it. Though I guess everyone that has a raspberry pi should try out PiHole. It's awesome.
Not below 100$ anymore, at least not where I live. Do my vote for 100$ used intel nuc ๐