> Maybe I had bad luck, maybe I happened to get 6 (I had multiple of certain Pis) defective boards but they always felt "unstable" to me. I've never had bad bo

> Maybe I had bad luck, maybe I happened to get 6 (I had multiple of certain Pis) defective boards but they always felt "unstable" to me. I've never had bad boards but I've had similar experiences like this, it's always turned out to be a power supply issue, or a counterfit sd card. Can't say I know what your experience will be but those are the places I'd look at first before the board. > During COVID (maybe before as well) it came out that the company was prioritizing bulk sales over sales to individuals (or rather sales to companies that resold to individuals) which soured me. If you go watch some of the interviews on this, it was a combination of things: 1) Supply chain issues, like everything during COVID, they couldn't keep up manufacturing capacity. 2) They weren't favoring resellers, but were favoring "industrial" or "commercial" (whatever you want to call them) customers because of pre-existing contracts that they had to fulfill or it'd kill them since they'd have to pay fines or deal with contract disputes. Since it was more guaranteed revenue it also helped them keep the lights on without just shutting down at the time too. Still didn't feel great either at the time, but I'd say that the way you put it reads as mis-charactarising what happened as being a purely profit motivate thing.