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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 22:19:33 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:


>    $40 ? Are you buying in the USA ??? Pi's are EXPENSIVE,
>    check Amazon US. Pi5 + CanaKit box, PS, fan ... you're talking
>    minimum $135 depending on options.

$40 more than the 8GB version. That is the Canakit I bought. It wasn't 
Black Friday but there was some sort of sale and I paid $136. I had been 
thinking about getting one but the sale pushed me over the edge.

This Ubuntu box is a Beelink SER4 that I bought in 2022 for $389. It has a 
Ryzen 7 4700U 8-core processor with 16GB of memory. Beelink has expanded 
its offerings since 2022 and I don't recall what they had on the low end. 
The SER4 has virtually the same specs as my Acer Swift 3 laptop so I knew 
it was capable.

I've been concentrating on the Pico Ws, comparing CircuitPython, 
MicroPython, and C but I did hang a DHT11 temperature/humidity sensor on 
the Pi to test the GPIO using Python.