Love the fact community is already mocking the fact they have distribution issues. While I had Twitter account their PR team was going full force demonstrating how it can be used and promoting projects that use it... all the while it's out of stock everywhere, constantly. I would have number of sites "notify" me when they are back in stock, only to be sold out seconds after. Luckily kind person shared a site which tracks where it can be purchased and for what amount but the mere fact such a tool has to exist just shows there's a serious problem.

The project goal has never been a 'cheap small computer you can run your hobby electronics project on'. The whole point of the project is to build a small cheap PC to give away to school children to increase computer literacy, while making it attractive enough for normal people to buy to fund the charity side

Isn't the Pi 3B still available for that kind of job?

I'm not sure I'd call 5 watts "power hungry."

Zero and zero 2 have decent stock anymore.

I’ve used pine64 boards for this. They have a few more options and are always available.

You can buy beelink small form factor pcs from Amazon for around $150 with cases and power supplies included.

Was able to get rpi3bs easy...4 drops...never saw one that wasn't overpriced scalped shit.

That display out will be hard to match with an old optiplex or laptop, but I agree, the pricing is getting less absurdly low and more just moderately low.

Not to mention a used PC is upgradable and can run proxmox

Thank you friendly robot :) I couldn't stop assuming PoE meant Pillars of Eternity! 😅

Why wait?

Define "stock Linux."

They can, just need correct drivers. We have mainline Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu for them now.

Power is USB-C, but the ports aren't because most PC accessories are still USB-A

I’m running Emby with 4k content from an Odroid HC-2. If you have a 4k TV it should support the H.265 codec without transcoding so the resources for sending videos is low.