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    1 year ago

    Sold out… remarks saying pre-order for next batches to ship in Dec or later. Yay…

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        Yeah, my credit card was charged for pre-order almost a month ago - no updates

        My local store is expecting initial stock in two weeks and are NOT doing any sort of pre-sales

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    1 year ago

    We are continuing to increase our production rate, with the aim of fulfilling all backorders, and getting Raspberry Pi in stock at all our Approved Resellers, by the end of the year

    I feel like I’ve heard that last part a few years in a row.

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      1 year ago

      They changed the board design to be much faster to produce by Sony, who manufactures them.

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        They work pretty well. The upside is they are always available. The downside is less support for software like the pi foundation has invested into. But they do a great job as a Linux board and if you use a well supported distro, you should be fine.

        At one point, we had to do a project with 40ish of these things. Worked out well and we couldn’t get a pi, because since 2019 they are basically impossible to order in number.

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        It’s an Armbian distro. Down side is you can’t install Pi images for specific things, you need to build them manually, but other than that no real issues. Also you can run Android (that was trickier to setup as it needs a windows only tool to flash it to the SD card.

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      1 year ago

      Scalp their own product and sell it for a markup just like how Nintendo does it with amibos and mini consoles.

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        If it’s going to get scalped anyways, I would prefer we did it in the open auction style the first half year, with the RPI foundation getting the proceeds.

        These scalper bots are adding nothing of value. Fuck em.

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        As an educator, still pretty hard for us to get them, too.

        But it’s not them, it’s silicon in general. It’s why car prices have gone up, too.

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    1 year ago

    Does anybody know if they addressed the issues with WiFi and Bluetooth interfering with each other?

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    Hi, can someone point me to a good resource where I can ask for DIY solution of home speaker.

    I need home speakers that can play music and messages from home machine.

    Target music is something like jellyfin, messaging is not decided.

    Goal is to have a speaker per room like Apple speaker, but controllable from Linux.

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    To bad that Raspberry Pi lost its cool, when they began to “cooperate” with Microsoft, and grant Microsoft access to your device.

    Edit:
    As answered to another user about the issues of the Microsft repo:

    The raspberry pi came preinstalled with a Microsoft developer tool, which resided in a Microsoft controlled repo.
    Now Microsoft has root access to your system, whenever you make any kind of upgrade, and can change dependencies for that tool to anything in their repo. Basically granting a third party control over your raspberry pi.
    The worst is that it’s very difficult to prevent, you may look up guides to prevent Microsoft repo, and even these solutions have shortcomings.
    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/raspberry-pi-os-added-a-microsoft-repo-no-its-not-an-evil-secret/
    On top of that, this enabled telemetry which is borderline illegal in EU.
    It also means you ping Microsoft with every use of your package manager, granting Microsoft very useful information on a competing OS, plus giving them information you may not wish to give them.
    You may consider all these issues as non issues, but I do not.

    Edit:

    It did not come preinstalled.

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      Can you support your claim? Raspberry py offers a Linux based computer and you can install whatever the hell you want on it.

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      Lots of things to criticize rPi foundation for, but this is just goofy BS.

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      There was also a Windows 10 IOT build for Raspberry Pi. Basically a stripped down Windows without a desktop for embedded uses. Nobody was forced to use it and probably very few people ever did.

      As for this repo it looks like a build of VS Code which is just a popular text / programming editor.

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      Just read the article. That’s bad.

      I don’t care that I can remove the repo, I’d still have to block MS to prevent an RPi update from re-adding a repo that can replace core files.

      What kind of BS is that author peddling? The bottom line is “if it can be done, it’s a bad thing”, that goodwill argument is a bunch of whitewashing.

      Plus, I don’t WANT VS on my Pi. The “help learning students” argument is also BS. VS is difficult to install because it’s not native, and this is a reality for tech users. Better approach would be clear documentation on how to install VS, explaining the how’s and why’s along the way. If it’s “too hard” to write such documentation or for students to follow it, then that person is clearly not qualified to write it.

      I’ve written TONS of docs just like this for enterprise app deployment. It’s SOP there. If a test unit fails to successfully rebuild a system using my docs, it’s not the tester’s fault, it’s a fault of my docs not being complete or clear enough.

      Every enterprise has teams that document everying to the extreme for disaster recovery - the idea being that anyone technical can walk in and rebuild an entire system from your docs.

      Thanks for the link.

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      Based on that URL, this only applies to RaspberryPi OS but you’re in no way required to even use it.