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Raspberry Pi shortage impacts home media server replacement

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The author's Raspberry Pi 4, which was running their Kodi instance, appears to be failing. They temporarily replaced it with a Raspberry Pi 3 but are now encountering difficulties finding a replacement Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 due to a widespread shortage, referred to as the "RAMpocalypse." AI

RANK_REASON The item discusses a hardware failure and subsequent shortage of a consumer electronic device, with a tangential mention of AI in a hashtag, not constituting core AI news or significant industry impact.

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Raspberry Pi shortage impacts home media server replacement

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    It looks like the Raspberry Pi 4 that was powering my Kodi instance is failing. Fortunately I had a spare RPI 3 lying around so I was able to get things back up

    It looks like the Raspberry Pi 4 that was powering my Kodi instance is failing. Fortunately I had a spare RPI 3 lying around so I was able to get things back up and running temporarily without too much effort. Then I started searching for a new RPi 4 or maybe 5 to replace it, but…

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