16 GB model goes up by $80 to $385, more than triple the $120 it launched at in January 2025
The price hikes of the Pis has made me get into microcontrollers. I got the CP/M 2.2 operating system running on the Pico.
Short of China taking an absolute dump on the market (though I think they’d tarrif it back up there) I doubt I’ll ever own a new computer ever again. It’s eBay and fb marketplace for me the rest of my life.
i think when those mythical nvl72 sitting in warehouses turn on and there is no more demand, the prices on hardware/wafers will probably crash, which is something jensen knows and cautiously advocates using local llm if you really want to protect your predatory corporation privacy, to get another market. is there really a demand for 10x llm usage, 100 bucks per each american a month, 360 billion per year? i very much doubt it, government can spin this a little bit further, but not forever.
why would you need panopticon for americans, so that they would buy more nike shoes? conversely, nsa already has what it needs (well unless those bugs were theirs).
America is moving from a consumer economy to a prisoner from home economy.
to a prisoner from home economy.
You say this half jokingly, but it’s quite literally Deleuze’s Society of Control.
Oh, no, I’m not joking about this at all. Some years ago (early 2010s?) Geo Group started investing heavily into house arrest related tech. While ICE is still keeping a hefty amount of folks as onsite slaves, they’ve also been sending a lot of them home with ankle bracelets and other monitoring solutions. The neoliberal psychological enslavement project is being sunset and US
are shifting America back into old fashioned slavery as fast as they can get away with.
seem to be happily consuming as ever
Nike owns converse, so it is entirely possible to
buy more nike shoes? conversely
Idk whether this was intentional on your part but either way good bit.
i just like the word conversely
Unfortunately, after looking it up to see whether it was true, I will probably now remember that Nike owns converse. That space could have been used to store a less useless fact.
It really is a shame to see all this RAM on RaspberryPis not being used in data centers…
in the most sympathetic interpretation of mr. altman, raspberries do work 24/7 and thus not a waste (as opposed to ideal gaming pc which works 2 hours a day). but, of course, he owns more than one car, so the core idea is bad faith anyways.
China is going to eat the entire tech market in due time. I just hope I can still buy tech from them in the long run. Eventually they will have solid SoCs for cheaper than anything else. ESP32 is already gaining massively in the lower-end DIY market.
They also just recently announced ramping up of new DRAM production and are quickly building capacity to produce solid state storage.
With esps you don’t need a pi anymore unless you need the form factor or need a specific hat or accessories.
Just use any old PC and if you need a micro controller just use a micro controller. You can get USB gpios too so there’s little reason to get a pi
It already wasn’t a good deal at 120€.
but now it costs ps5
Retvrn to picking up a zero w on a whim because it was five dollars in the microcenter checkout line
I was trying to find a zero 2 for some scripts but can’t find them, even at the 15/20 dollar mark.
I’m still running an original model B for pihole
Yes they were cheap, but 512MiB of ram was still insulting.
Not as insulting as 16GB for $385
i get used laptops for free from my family to do shenanigans on. theyd normally go to a dump. last time i was at goodwill i saw some decently specced laptops going for 20-50 bucks, they were 6 years old tops. who is this even for now? people that need extreme power efficiency and compute for the cost? idk if a raspberry pi is even good for that over say an old used pixel running a linux kernel now
embedded systems projects, in particular robotics people seem to like using entire prebuilt SBCs
Just buy any old computer lol. Are they really selling enough to make this worth it?
I imagine the main customer are companies building shitty appliances that use a raspberry pi. I also have a 3D printer that is powered by a raspberry.
For a home server used PCs should be an easy choice. I guess a lot of people might still fall for a raspberry pi at least once.
For networked electronics there are so many better choices nowadays.
Even 10 year old second-hand PCs are going for ~$200-$300 now it’s insane. Tried to bid on a few during the Radio Free Asia HQ liquidation auction and I was baffled by how much people were bidding on crap that would be worth $40 a few years ago.
Liquidation bidders are a bit unhinged sometimes (especially if you factor in that it’s usually more annoying to get you shit than on eBay). But yeah I also noticed that used hardware has gotten more expensive.
my first home server was a rasp pi 4b 8GB which ran me abour 120 quid after getting all the accessories for it. I didnt buy a 5 back when they launched mainly because it was slower for media transcoding (it doesnt have a hardware transcoder at all!) which was all I would see when I researched it for homelabbing
It’s unfortunate that most of the other ARM aren’t easily usable outside of poorly supported vendor image
rockchip seems to be getting some of love, mainly due to ugreen and orange pi, but i have high hopes that next gen and price crash will make for nice upgrade, and probably software will be close to reasonable
For networked electronics there are so many better choices nowadays.
Old digital signage PCs. If you can find one with a PCIe slot, you can even put 10G network cards in it. I got a fanless one that was an i5 with ~8GB of ram and 500GB of storage for like $200 (I think it was actually $80 at the time, but it would probably be $200 now with 8GB of RAM).
Also had 4 built in nics and like 4 HDMI ports for controlling the displays.
Wait until Sam Altman hears about this
