Back in stock, haven't seen the 4gb for a while.
And before the inevitable not a deal comments, these are selling for nearly $200 preowned on ebay (not that I'm encouraging scalping). This is therefore by far the cheapest way to get one of these right now.
This anygood for pihole? I'm wanting to try my hand at this but worried about the specs.
Unbelievable overkill. A Pi Zero is more than enough.
Great thanks for letting me know.
Yeah any other Pi will do for this. The 3b is in stock at a lot of places at the moment, grab one of those instead. You can run it on a Pi Zero, but this way to might be able to use it for other stuff as well. e.g. https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi-3-model-b.html
Great feedback thank you. Will try look for this 3b.
Wow
whats the problem here?
if you think cops are the only people making Rpis into surveillance equipment I have a bridge to sell you. at least hes honest about it.
(fwiw Im as ACAB as they come but clearly he has the skills and experience to build cool shit to promote the brand)
What are some better alternatives in this respect? Ie. privacy respecting, non-proprietary?
I was looking into the Pine64, which have an excellent philosophy regarding the above but can't vouch for their single board computers as I simply don't know enough yet. (link below)
nothing has changed about Raspberry Pi as an organisation or as a product. Their products arent suddenly less secure or something.
They hired a guy who was using their products to catch high level drug dealers in the UK. Regardless of how you feel about police as whole, I think we can all agree that criminals of that level are fair game and what the cops should be trying to catch (side note: legalise it. problem solved)
the fact the dogpile started on Mastodon of all places tells you all you need to know about it. it was blue-hair outrage for the sake of it, more than likely misplaced thinking that all cops are some USA beat-walkin' minority murderin' cowboy, in which case the outrage would be fully justified.
reminder that a popular use of raspberry pis is using them to spy on birds. the only thing different between birdnet and the cops job was the subject being surveilled, and anyone with a brain can join the dots on how one might repurpose the hardware to better spy on people.
Your smartphone is spying on you right now, if you needed a reminder that surveillance is literally everywhere.
ACAB? lol
LOL
Thanks OP, just about to delve into my attempt at Homebridge, I am not a fan of having to buy from them with their history but these don't come up often enough.
Using this with 128gb sd card from last 6 months….happy plex user
Couldn't help myself… I'd rather a CM4, but they are as rare as unicorn poo.
100%. Replaced my pi with a refurbished mini pc a few months ago, maybe a couple of bucks more than this deal. Came with an SSD, 8GB of ram and a windows pro license (which worked well for me). Unless you really need the tiny form factor, I can’t see a reason for getting an rpi these days.
Can I use this one with pi-hole and have ad blocking network wide?
Yes but you can get a Pi Zero that costs 75% less, uses less power and will do an identical job. I run it on a Zero and barely hit 10% CPU and memory usage.
Or an older pi you may have lying around after upgrading 😉
Yes that's what people do
You can.
Another option however is to run a free Oracle Cloud tier server which has more than enough capacity to run PiHole or AdGuard Home with Wireguard as a tunnel solution. You can then use that solution both at home and when you’re out and about, and it costs nothing and no need to open up your own network.
https://github.com/IAmStoxe/oracle-free-tier-wirehole
Some other cloud providers also have free offerings that can be used, but I played with Oracles myself as you can select Australian data centres on the free plans where some other providers would have limited free plans to overseas.
Thank you guys for the input, will look into those cheers
Interested in getting one to setup an ADS-B receiver.
Is this just like a PC? You connect keyboard, mouse, monitor to it, then setup it up the way you wanted, disconnect the peripherals, access it remotely.
You can setup remotely. Use raspberrypi imager, turn on ssh and if you are using wifi prefill details in the imager settings.
Thanks, new to this.
Speaking of image, any VM can emulate Raspberry Pi?
Tried VMware Player and VirtualBox, they don't seem to work with the image I want to install.
No. Raspberry pi is ARM and you are likely trying to run on x86
shocking price, what is this 2022?
Jaycar too expensive. Never use it
Overpriced af
I'm a Raspberry Pi fan and have a couple of older models.
I've been looking at the 8GB pi 4 for a media server but once you add a power supply, sd card, case etc is well over $200.
I was thinking about getting a 2nd desktop computer instead for around the same price. The only thing that concerns me is power usage. Any tips for getting one that won't cost a lot to run 24/7?
What kind of media, videos and audio?
Could have a go at setting up PiCore Player (Squeezelite and LMS), think it's only for audio.
What about a NAS - will be at least $400 though I believe.. anything bigger than an ad USB or SSD hd you'd need to provide extra power to the pi anyway.
Seems a bit old school these days when most people just stream everything, but could use for backups too.
Was thinking about installing OMV with some old USB hard drives so no additional cost.
Will be running Plex/Jellyfin with Sonarr/Radarr/Jacket for downloading/streaming movies.
Probably only need it for a few hours a day so want to make sure it doesn't use a lot of power when it's idle…
Yeah i wouldn't mind something like that, already got a Pi4 B 4gb but it's used as a music server (Volumio).
Was thinking of mapping a drive from the USB folder of the connected SSD to place roms/videos but would quickly exceed the space, but more of a temporary place to save plugging a usb into the TV. Suppose that would work with Plex.
Something dual use be alright,
Edit: retroarch can see the new mapped drive (but couldn't get \volumio.local\USB folder to show so mapping is the go.
Will check out OMV sounds ok.
ps. Could just plug an ext hdd caddy into the Pi (or similar) and turn on the power when needed. A nas would be best i imagine though, just never cheap.
If you are looking for cheaper alternatives, LTT literally posted this video 2 hours ago: I Can Save You Money! – Raspberry Pi Alternatives
Thanks, some decent options in there. I still think an old Thin Client desktop might be better value though, just need to find the right one…
I'm not going to downvote but Pi is underpowered, so the selling point was always that it was cheap as chips. Now that it hasn't been cheap for the longest time, there are often better alternatives for a little more money, especially if size is not important.
I kind of agree. What alternatives would you recommend though?
A PC or laptop to NUC/mini-PC will give you more power. Some good 2nd hand bargains to be had.
Negative vote for Jaycar and their blatant cloning of this guy's arduino kit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW8K9D9u5aI
I 100% did, and thank you for getting the joke
So many other SBC options that are significantly cheaper and or significantly more powerful.
Orange Pi 5 ftw
Hey all, this is going to sound wierd, but I'm reading through this and, well it sounds mighty interesting, and something I would love to learn more about, but the only pi i know about is the one people eat..where would be a good place to learn/start? TIA.
Google/YouTube/ChatGPT.
Search "Raspberry Pi"
Nope. And you got full function machine.
The raspberry pi was designed to provide cheap alternative pc .