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I quit waiting for them to come back in stock. I ended up getting a Libre Computer Le Potato. 30-40$ on Amazon and so far it works just fine. The OS is a bit of a pain to install, but if you're familiar with Linux you should be good
Oh, never heard of those. They look pretty much a like Raspberry Pi. How is it compared to a Raspberry Pi, in your opinion?
So far it seems faster than my pi3. The extra RAM really helps. It is missing the camera ribbon cable connection but I got an Arduino USB cam instead. I am just using it as a 3d printer controller running fluidd, so not really pushing the limits on the board.
The only issue is with their boot loader/BIOS. You can't power off the board unless you run shutdown -H now. Otherwise it will just reboot. Since this is an always on device I am not too worried about that. It was just a bit of troubleshooting for my automated shutdown scripts.
Not upset with my purchase and might get another one for tinkering
Honest question - how else would you shut it down? That's the only way I know of...
Oh thanks. I guess I'll try one too to see if a raspberry pi is even worth buying at the retail price.
Edit: Sorry scubbo, didn't mean to reply to you.
A few years ago I think they were worth it, but now there are so many options they aren't worth the mark up. Most of the clones work extremely well and have almost all the same features. The ribbon cable connections are the only thing missing that I have found
I normally use sudo poweroff I think it is an alias on most systems. I found it way back and just got used to using it