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    Boomer112 reacted to Bombastinator in Best budget Raspberry Pi starter kit for a noobie with 0 knowledge?   
    Maybe check Craigslist or a going-out of business auction or something. What you’re unlikely to find is multiple or over 1gb ethernet, or anything other than pcie, usb3.0, wireless N, or sata3.  If they were good for anything other than being put to use as a router or something they would be worth more money. Whatever they are going to be used for the will probably need a pcie card of some sort costing about $20.  An rj45, wifi, something.  The advantage they have is flexibility.  The disadvantage is size.
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    Boomer112 reacted to Bombastinator in Best budget Raspberry Pi starter kit for a noobie with 0 knowledge?   
    You can find old office desktops that aren’t convertible for gaming in the $50 range.  The ones that are are in th $300 range, but the ones that can’t are consideded trash grade.  A 7th gen 2/4 intel machine or something.  Decent power usage a lot more I/o and just easier to deal with in general.  Another option is pi actually got clones.  Ther is orange pi and banana pi and a bunch of others, and they DON’T have the scalping problem.  A third option is beaglebone which is a single board that runs on BSD instead of Linux.  They’re even cheaper, and I know for a fact that you can get mythTV to run on one with some massaging because my upstairs tenant did it.
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    Boomer112 reacted to Bombastinator in Best budget Raspberry Pi starter kit for a noobie with 0 knowledge?   
    What do they cost now then?  $150 is a scalper price for a pi cpm4.  If you want one off Amazon or something that is what they cost, but afaik the original sellers are bound to sell them at msrp (which is where the scalpers are getting them) so you sign up and wait.  If you got to pay $150 though. They’re an awful deal.  It’s a lot like the gpu market a year ago.  
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    Boomer112 reacted to manikyath in Best budget Raspberry Pi starter kit for a noobie with 0 knowledge?   
    and most that do run, generally run poorly.
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    on topic:
    if you're not getting into raspberry pi specificly FOR the platform, you have nothing to lose with raspberry.
     
    besides the obvious option of buying a second hand dell optiplex / hp prodesk, you can also buy something like an asrock mini-ITX embedded cpu board. for the full kit (i.e. including a case and an ATX power supply, bought new.) you're only looking at around 200 bucks, for a system that'll outperform the pi in just about every way, by leaps and bounds. oh, and these ITX boards actually arent all that much more power hungry than a raspberry pi.
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    Boomer112 reacted to Gokul_P in Best budget Raspberry Pi starter kit for a noobie with 0 knowledge?   
    For basic stuff  i think small pc will do the job watching youtube and stuff and raspi is pretty much overprized in all online retailers. If you can find one in stock at the msrp (50$) that is the only reason to buy it now. Watching yt and playing small games is well served by a dell optiplux like old office pcs  and they are cheap on everywhere you  want to add a ssd  if it didnt have one already and you have a pretty good machine for any basic tasks.
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    Boomer112 reacted to GOTSpectrum in Best budget Raspberry Pi starter kit for a noobie with 0 knowledge?   
    there is a massive shortage of R Pis atm and you will struggle to get one for anything close to a decent price. I would start by having a look at this channel. 
     
    https://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers
     
    he talks a lot about single board computers such as the pi 
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    Boomer112 reacted to Eigenvektor in Best budget Raspberry Pi starter kit for a noobie with 0 knowledge?   
    Be aware that a RasPi uses an ARM based CPU, so don't expect anything other than native open source Linux games to run on it.
     
    Not sure what the market is like in your area, but around here Pis currently seem to cost x4 from what they should.
     
    Maybe consider some small form factor x86 based machine instead.
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    Boomer112 reacted to Bombastinator in Best budget Raspberry Pi starter kit for a noobie with 0 knowledge?   
    Apparently the problem is pi production is slow, therefore ther are scalpers.  Since this is a hobby thing I suggest going to an authorized reseller that has them at a reasonable price but is out of stock and then get on their wait list.  It will probably take a few months but you’ll get it at a decent price.  I didn’t know about this one when I started and wound up paying scalper prices. My “starter” is a bliKVMHAT which isn’t a “learning” kit but is actually useful.
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    Boomer112 reacted to kokosnh in 5gb/s for a 6gb/s hard drive?   
    SATA III 6Gbps = 750MBps (with 8/10 encoding) = 600MBps real speed. 
    USB 3.0 5Gbps = 625MBps (with 8/10 encoding) = 500MBps real speed. 

     
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    Boomer112 reacted to alienpope in Special gaming chair for my wife (broken tailbone)   
    Possibly! The prices on those are a bit more reasonable though. Hoping they ship to Sweden haha
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    Boomer112 reacted to rice guru in Looking for headphones for a bass head like me   
    I would just make a new account cause those coupons expire in like a month
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    Boomer112 reacted to rice guru in Looking for headphones for a bass head like me   
    A nice bass head can I like to listen to if you can stretch that budget like $10 and use the new user coupon on massdrop is the meze 99 noir. Nice laid back but a really nice amount of thump when the song demands it.
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    Boomer112 reacted to Derkoli in Viper4Windows alternative?   
    Just ask for any help/guidance if you need any
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