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Raspberry Pi alternatives for headless self hosted applications (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Since rpis have been almost impossible to find, I've been looking around for alternatives for some local self hosted services like home assistant. A lot of boards seem to talk about GPU, GPIO pins, etc. But I really just want a single board, fanless (low power), decent CPU and RAM, ethernet.

Any recommendations?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why are rpis hard to find? Are they not making as many anymore?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Still feeling the effects of the Chip Shortage of 2020-2022. They are still making a lot of pi's, but they have a huge backlog to work away. Large contracts get priority over distributors, unfortunately, so they are very hard to find.

https://rpilocator.com/ scrapes the web and displays available stock. Managed to get a rpi4 8GB a couple of weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Chip shortage, then scalpers happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Chip shortage combined with scalpers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had no idea either they were getting scarce - is it just the really decent ones or the older ones too I wonder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much all of them unfortunately. Although claims have been made that the situation should get better in the second half of 2023. It's about time tho, all pi models have been out of stock for at least 2 years at this point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WHAT wow... And here I am using my little 4 to display a dakboard :/ I had a B+ and gave it away since it was so slow but that was 2017 hah

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using one for my brewery as a controller. If that one dies I'm in trouble.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Chip shortage really hit them hard... At some point I even had a Firefox extension that would send me a notification when they were available somewhere.

It's supposed to get better by the end of the year though.