And, another shortage.

Raspberry Pi boards - the kinds that run Linux, not the Pico - are mighty scarce.  Like, most flavors seem to be out of stock everywhere, or only available from scalpers at wildly inflated prices.  Did everybody get one for Christmas?

I was contemplating some sort of Pi board for a household project, but perhaps that has to wait.  Or I can borrow a board from another project, maybe.  Got a crazy idea involving a bunch of BLE devices scattered around the house, and a RasPi or similar to listen for status and issue noises and/or UDP broadcast packets.  Some BLE modules for proof-of-concept should be in today's mail.  I guess initial testing can use a desktop PC, though that's highly suboptimal in terms of both RF noise and location.  Hey, as long as the Bluetooth stack is there, I can do initial software testing that way and worry about range later.