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I got an email yesterday that a solid year after signing up for notifications I can finally buy the pi 4 lol. It might have been a longer wait than my steam deck.
I’ve bought two on eBay in the last year. Got the last one for around $135 and it was a kit.
I've been wanting to get one or two for some projects, but because of the prices and scarcity, I ended up just buying an old mini PC. It was like $60 and I can do a lot more with it than a pi (at least for home server projects).
Yeah, there were ways to get them if you had to have them, but I wasn't committed enough to keep up with checking and paying a premium. The reality is that I have more older ones than I use already, along with multiple other devices that could be used as servers if I had a use for everything.
It's really just because I have a silly need to buy tech for no reason (and yes, I bought one when I got the email).
Me too, I have three of them now plus an old chromebook that I rooted and installed linux on when the price of a PI was skyhigh during the pandemic. The chromebook set me back $40. Installing PeppermintOS on it was pretty easy.