• treesquid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I guess I better buy a new Pi before they quintuple in price for half the quality

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      10 months ago

      If you don’t need any of the Pi specific features. Then buy a sbc from another brand. You get way more for your money and more features

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          10 months ago

          There’s a huge amount variety between the alternative sbc providers, but I’m general:

          • some are simply designed not to have various bits of hardware like the camera 22 pin connector.
          • some fail to conform to the pis pin out or footprint, so hats won’t be compatible
          • more commonly, documentation and support is so poor that extensive dev/Linux experience is required to get existing hardware to work

          All of this makes it difficult to utilize alternatives without conducting considerable research into many different ones.