• cosmic_slate@dmv.social
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    1 year ago

    Why the doom-and-gloom? Have you tried ordering any in the last several months?

    https://rpilocator.com/?cat=PI4

    I ordered 4x Pi 4 8GBs a few weeks ago for a Kubernetes cluster without any issue. The stock problem cleared up a few months ago.

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      1 year ago

      No it didn’t. The stock problem will be considered “cleared up” when you can wander into a Microcenter any day of the week and grab one, and that is very much not the case yet. At my local Microcenter, they’re still selling out within hours of receiving a shipment (and they’re only receiving like one shipment a month).

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        1 year ago

        That mostly depends on the thoughts on profitability by the microcenter, not necessarily on general availability.

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      1 year ago

      Sadly not so much on the CM4, which is what a lot of people are after these days.

      Seem to be plenty of special-purpose bring-your-own-Pi carrier boards (like the Home Assistant “Yellow”) that people haven’t been able to get CM4s for in going on a year at this point.