Building a freedom-friendly WiFi pocket-router (2021)

Re:Building a freedom-friendly WiFi pocket-router (2021) by nshkr on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:31PM (#38400416)

Pi knockoffs offer a unique form of supply chain and technical risks

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Re:Building a freedom-friendly WiFi pocket-router (2021) by megous on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:44PM (#38400469)

Which is completely irrelevant to hobyists, and this board doesn't look like any Raspberry Pi anyway, so it's not a knockoff.

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Re:Building a freedom-friendly WiFi pocket-router (2021) by Qwertious on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:53PM (#38400504)

>Which is completely irrelevant to hobyists

The article says that there was already an item that could fit the bill (one of the ThinkPenguin mini-routers) but was out of stock. Sounds like a supply chain problem to me.

>and this board doesn't look like any Raspberry Pi anyway, so it's not a knockoff.

This is false, all SBCs are RasPi knockoffs. /s

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Re:Building a freedom-friendly WiFi pocket-router (2021) by squarefoot on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:11PM (#38400581)

If the Orange Pi is a Raspberry Pi knockoff, then the Raspberry Pi itself is a knockoff of the Foxboard LX832 which predated the first Raspberry Pi by at least six years.

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Re:Building a freedom-friendly WiFi pocket-router (2021) by notpushkin on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:15AM (#38401975)

Well, for some projects supply chain risks are better than no supply at all, so there's that.

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