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by justin66 999 days ago
> At this point the hobbyist community has moved on to other things (shout out to odroids).

Some small fraction of one percent of "the hobbyist community" has done as you've suggested. You're in some kind of odroid bubble.
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KaiserPro 999 days ago
Yeahnah, I'm not moving to odroid, its a lot of faff and terrible support.

I have a N100, and some rp2040s for GPIO.

I have a project coming up that needs to drive a small screen, the raspberry pi is totally the platform I'm going for. There is no comparison for hardware and software options.

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Dah00n 999 days ago
So what did all those people that couldn't get a RPI do? Stop doing stuff or did they move on? I'm pretty sure the other brands saw a big uptick in sales but if you know otherwise please do share as I have no numbers to back anything up.
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justin66 999 days ago
It's true that the last few years have been rough for new users, but if they were already "doing stuff" with a Pi, why would they need to stop?

> I'm pretty sure the other brands saw a big uptick in sales

They probably had massive upticks in sales, which for them might have been quite significant but relative to the total Pi user base, not at all.

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