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Re:Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone? by bambax on Saturday November 14, 2026 @05:47AM (#50495924)
> RaspberryPies and such are commodity hardware. You can buy one, two, ten, twenty, a hundred, and it just scales along.

Not my experience at all. Pies are hard to find, get more expensive each week. Some are impossible to find (Pi zero).

The most fragile part of a phone is the screen. If you don't care about breaking it, then access to the battery becomes pretty easy, and therefore easy to replace.

Re:Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone? by afgrant on Saturday November 14, 2026 @06:46AM (#50496240)
It seems very regionally dependent.
Re:Why get an expensive Pi when I have an old phone? by setopt on Saturday November 14, 2026 @07:04AM (#50496366)
Same here. The last times I tried to get a Pi — three times in three years — the ones I wanted were completely sold out and waiting to restock.