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Yep, tried for months to find a Pi4 to replace an old Pi2 for home experimentation. I've only tried a few things needing the GPIO pins, mostly it's just an alw
by focusedone 4y ago
Yep, tried for months to find a Pi4 to replace an old Pi2 for home experimentation. I've only tried a few things needing the GPIO pins, mostly it's just an always-on computer I can proxy through and self host on. But the Pi2 was getting into swap all the time and needed an upgrade.
Found a Thinkcentre M600 on ShopGoodwill for $40 with an SSD. Added $10 of RAM and it's honestly a better fit for what I do with it. Crazy slow for a windows desktop but perfectly snappy running debian.
For someone just looking for an inexpensive PC, and with the way availability and markup are right now, the Pi just doesn't make sense. Used / cheap SFFs are a good way to go.
- rbanffy 4y ago> Thinkcentre M600 on ShopGoodwill for $40 These are, indeed, RPi killers if you don't mind the power consumption and the lack of built-in GPIO. I have a cluster of HP thin clients running... clustery things.