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I mean the Pi currently makes little to no sense to buy anyway. So locking down parts barely moves the needle. The value proposition is unbelievably bad at spen
by kingstnap 2mo ago
I mean the Pi currently makes little to no sense to buy anyway. So locking down parts barely moves the needle. The value proposition is unbelievably bad at spending upwards of $423 CAD for a 16GB Raspberry Pi. Which is literally just the bare board.
The 2026 financial report is apparently this Thursday on Sept 24. So will see how this played out for them. Their stock is all over the place anyway with low float.
- Palomides 2mo agoyou can buy a variety of pi models in the range of $50 to $15, so what?
- bluGill 2mo agoThe pi is useful because it is well supported. Either buy a x86, or buy pi - anything else and good luck keeping it working. You need to plan on spending your time writing/maintain the drivers to keep your system working. Even for pi, the real value is in industrial companies that don't want to hire their own maintainers.
- mschuster91 2mo ago> Even for pi, the real value is in industrial companies that don't want to hire their own maintainers. Reminds me of Adobe's history to be honest. They also were big on hooking the young to their ecosystem, including turning more than one blind eye towards piracy, and once they had a captive userbase plus a lack of competition, they enshittified.
- selfhoster11 2mo agoI have at one point faced the “should I buy x86 instead”, and decided low-power Intel CPUs make it viable. Guess I’m gonna pick the x86.
- bluGill 2mo agoThe latest low power Intel is very nice. ARM beats it for doing nothing, but when getting things done things are more complex.
- edg5000 2mo agoI think the Pi units have much higher margins on higher RAM versions plus RAM is expensive, so the 16GB is indeed a bad deal. For my workloads I heavily use all onboard peripeals, GPU and CPU, but need only 1GB RAM. So I get a good deal even compared to Chinese alternatives.