[genmud]

That’s apples to oranges, more comparable would be a pi pico w, which is like $6, has better documentation, and is more likely to be available when you need one.

I have a bunch of pine devices, but if you think raspberry pi’s are difficult to come by, finding a pine device in stock over the last few years has been a challenge at least for me personally. Things have started to get much better though, it seems.

[klardotsh]

Not only are Pine hard to find stock of, but I've basically never heard of a well-built Pine64 product, and that's coming from someone with three of them. They're all buggy, flimsy, doorstops at this point. Whereas my biggest complaints about Pis are that (1) I broke a plastic case for one of mine while it was in a moving box, oops, (2) SD cards are a pain in the butt and fragile.

[abudabi123]

The smaller than a finger nail size ”user unfriendly SD card“ is replaceable with USB memory as boot device.