Raspberry Pi just released a new $15 Pi Zero 2 single board computer

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Bet I still can’t buy one. The only places I’ve ever seen them for sale limit quantity to 1 and have absurd shipping prices. We don’t all live next to a microcenter, after all.

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I was thinking, “just pick one up at Microcenter” as I read your post. Oops, sorry. Want me to mail you one?

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Lol! No, but thanks. I’ve got plenty of other systems and I’ve never ran into a project that I couldn’t solve better with what I’ve got.

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For what it’s worth, a PI4 will make a lot of the retropie games run quite nicely.

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I just (as in last night) configured a Pi Zero to run Pi-Hole for the in-laws. Even on the old hardware, it barely taxes the processor. Powers from just the USB port on the router.

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I got my Raspberry Pi 4 in the mail today. I’ve used older versions for projects in the past, but I was really impressed with how polished the tooling is now. Whenever I need to put a disk image onto a card I usually end up using low-level tools that come with the OS. The Raspberry Pi Imager seems to be cross platform, is really simple, but still seems to have enough options to cover most people. The first boot went right to a desktop with a wizard to fix the last few things.

I remember a lot of implied steps that are now done for you or asked up front (growing the partitions to fill the card, configuring wifi, downloading an image and putting it on the sd card). Things that would have taken much longer or would cause people to set the whole project aside.

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Me too! I think I have 2 of the Pi Zero still in the shipping package!

I just ordered one of the new ones from buyapi.ca. Allegedly in the mail in the morning.

I may have a problem.

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[Later, in Startup Central, someplace:] Yeah, once we moved the teams off slack and SalesForce and CRM and R to Barbarian, things moved much more smoothly.
[Passes more onboarding neophytes dressed as Volta.]

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