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    From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 14 11:02:59 2023
    Is the GreatGlobalPiShortage now at an end?

    I looked in the PiHut and most boards seem to be back in stock...


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    futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into,
    we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a
    power-directed system of thought.”
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  • From A. Dumas@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Tue Mar 14 14:39:21 2023
    The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Is the GreatGlobalPiShortage now at an end?

    I looked in the PiHut and most boards seem to be back in stock...

    I guess they got a good batch. Now though, I see only one model (A+)
    available at one dealer https://rpilocator.com

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  • From Brian Gregory@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Tue Mar 14 16:32:14 2023
    On 14/03/2023 11:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    Is the GreatGlobalPiShortage now at an end?

    I looked in the PiHut and most boards seem to be back in stock...

    Are you sure?
    There's almost nothing there now.
    The shortage seems worse than ever to me, now that the scalpers all know
    about rpilocator.

    --
    Brian Gregory (in England).

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Brian Gregory on Tue Mar 14 18:32:09 2023
    On 14/03/2023 16:32, Brian Gregory wrote:
    On 14/03/2023 11:02, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    Is the GreatGlobalPiShortage now at an end?

    I looked in the PiHut and most boards seem to be back in stock...

    Are you sure?
    There's almost nothing there now.
    The shortage seems worse than ever to me, now that the scalpers all know about rpilocator.

    My bad, I mistook the green colour that is nearly the same as 'in stock'
    which actually says something else.

    Why didn't they make it red or orange?
    --
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established
    authorities are wrong.”

    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Tue Mar 14 20:49:31 2023
    The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Is the GreatGlobalPiShortage now at an end?

    I looked in the PiHut and most boards seem to be back in stock...

    If you were to take a trip into Cambridge I gather the Raspberry Pi store in the Grand Arcade is said to be better at having stock.

    (I haven't verified this personally)

    Theo

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Theo on Wed Mar 15 08:56:07 2023
    On 14/03/2023 20:49, Theo wrote:
    The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Is the GreatGlobalPiShortage now at an end?

    I looked in the PiHut and most boards seem to be back in stock...

    If you were to take a trip into Cambridge I gather the Raspberry Pi store in the Grand Arcade is said to be better at having stock.

    (I haven't verified this personally)

    Theo
    Trip into Cambridge almost impossible now due to traffic/parking
    restrictions -
    usually costs me a fine of on sort or another. Cambridge doesn't want motorists. I oblige.


    --
    If I had all the money I've spent on drink...
    ..I'd spend it on drink.

    Sir Henry (at Rawlinson's End)

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  • From Ahem A Rivet's Shot@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Wed Mar 15 11:48:23 2023
    On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 08:56:07 +0000
    The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]d> wrote:

    Cambridge doesn't want motorists. I oblige.

    I grew up there, then moved away and revisited thirty years later,
    it had become an awful, crowded and over-controlled place.

    The fines were still turning up a month after I got home!

    --
    Steve O'Hara-Smith
    Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/

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  • From Paul Hardy@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Wed Mar 15 15:07:03 2023
    The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]d> wrote:
    On 14/03/2023 20:49, Theo wrote:
    The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Is the GreatGlobalPiShortage now at an end?

    I looked in the PiHut and most boards seem to be back in stock...

    If you were to take a trip into Cambridge I gather the Raspberry Pi store in >> the Grand Arcade is said to be better at having stock.

    (I haven't verified this personally)

    Theo
    Trip into Cambridge almost impossible now due to traffic/parking
    restrictions -
    usually costs me a fine of on sort or another. Cambridge doesn't want motorists. I oblige.



    I went into the RPi shop in Cambridge yesterday as I was walking through
    the Grand Arcade. No stock of naked Pi boards. Only starter kits. I asked
    when reasonable supplies were expected and they said July.

    Access to Cambridge was fine. Drive to Madingley P&R in 8 mins. Plenty of parking space. Wait 5 mins for bus ( every 10 mins). Get off at Round
    Church 10 mins later.

    Easier than driving into town to park, similar time taken, cheaper, better
    for the planet and for quality of life in Cambridge!

    --
    Paul at the paulhardy.net domain

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