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SSchickyesterday at 10:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not everyone earns tech bro salaries and can sustain a thousand cuts. Many hobbiests are scraping and saving money to acquire hardware. For some it very well msy be the end of their world.


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dangusyesterday at 10:17 PM

We are talking about brand new latest gen hardware here. People with low budgets are always scraping and saving for deals and don’t need to buy something brand new from a pricey brand name like raspberry pi.

You can still jump on eBay and buy all kinds of dirt cheap used pieces of hardware.

My buddy just bought a used ThinkPad T14 with 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage for about $500. You can get by with a whole lot less.

In this context, I will also present the idea that Rasperry Pi has represented quite poor cost value for many years now.

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