the device is now fully worthless ignore it and tell them to fuk off.
- make it impossible to replace board components or solder new RAM
- increase prices
- profit to boost your 2025 $21 Mio net income even higher
Yeah, don’t buy an overpriced Raspberry Pi; instead, you should buy a more reasonably priced…oh.
$78 for a 2gb pi is insane, you can get a massively more powerful used nuc/mini-pc on eBay for like $5 more.
Yeah, the best way to go is to have purchased a few of them 3+ years ago!
A Teensy is like 50 dollars now.
The
AristocratsCapitalists!Just get a used low power computer off ebay
Turns out, 80s cyberpunk movies were spot on. Soon all affordable consumer electronics will be based on vacuum tubes again.
Thermionic Valves or Pneumatic transport pipes?
So…any good alternative? Specifically for hosting. Rpi has been very expensive in my country since the start as here we don’t have any dealer, so price will always be 60% to 100% more expensive than MSRP. I don’t mind chinese brand, there should be a shit tons of chinese brand.
WYSE 5070
Keep an eye out for any thin clients that can’t support Win11 that businesses are getting rid of. You might have some luck with them.
I’m looking at old optiplex, it’s significantly cheaper than rpi5, bigger in size though. I wonder how much power it will consume while hosting cloud storage, jellyfin, and home assistant.
Yeah, I need to get a meter so I can see what the power draw is on mine.
https://github.com/Mr-Bossman/pi-pico2-linux (Yes, I’m kidding)
There are a few popular options, but i haven tried them personally yet:
- Orange pi
- Banana pi
- Odroid (coworker is a big fan of these)
- Rock64 (i think this ones very old)
OrangePi support is terrible. Maybe it’s better with the 5, but the 4 I’ve struggled with getting a library to work with the GPIO pins, documentation on the NPU is limited, and I can’t get it to recognize a standard serial camera.
It’s possible I’m just trying to do weird things, but it’s a much worse experience than I’ve ever had with a raspberry pi and I regret not spending more to just get the pi. I’ve lost probably 10+ hours just trying to deal with some things I’d consider basic, and had to create weird workarounds that hurt performance in other areas.
I just checked and at least the Orange Pi ones are maybe 50% up in price.
Just shared my experience on the post you replied to, but basically the support/documentation for the orangepi isn’t great and has cost me a lot of time and forced me to use workarounds to get some things working (GPIO, NPU, cameras, etc.)
It costs 50% more than it did at launch… if you can get one at MSRP, which you can’t, because they are immediately hoarded by scalpers and resold at exorbitant prices the moment an authorized reseller gets any stock.
Meanwhile their business customers can buy direct in bulk at a discount.
Raspberry Pi hasn’t been for consumers since before COVID.
Yeah, I haven’t been able to find a Pi Zero W anyfuckingwhere and it’s really annoying because I have a dedicated task I want to set one up for but I don’t want to use my Pi4 for it because I have other plans for that.
I’d also like to get a Pi5 for the PCIe connectivity but fuck they’re expensive these days…
And that is…?
Edit: apparently, the cost had jumped from $55-$78. Still, at least $100 less than what it cost in 2016 when I was in school for an RPi 2. I’m having a huge amount of trouble finding scaler comparisons between RPi and standard server set up.
Genuinely asking: for the Rpi fans out there, what’s it actually capable of nowadays? Can I run a Plex server off of a single RPi?
I am looking to replace a 2011 iMac (i7-2600) as my Plex server, I’d like to know if a modern RPi could handle the load.
Advice, please?
Get a usff thinkcentre, like the m910 tiny. Insanely simple, upgradeable (nvme + 2.5", 2 sodimm slots), lots of usb and other connectics, supports 3 screens if you need that, low power, super small and can be found for cheap.
Yeah, I saw an eighth generation i5 OptiPlex SFF that I thought was kind of tasty. Refurbished for under $500. I was just wondering if a modern RPi could actually handle the load. I used a few in school about 10 years ago, but I’ve heard they’ve become really far in that time.
BTW, I put in a request for quote on a refurbished ThinkCentre. I’ll let you know what they tell me. Here’s the link to the machine.
https://www.pcliquidations.com/p27443-lenovo-thinkcentre-m91-usff
The ones I use are like this even my daily driver is a 6500T like that (m910q) where I do programming and stuff.
Good luck!
Is this denominated in strips of gold-pressed latinum? Because I don’t understand these numbers
I don’t understand your post 😅 it’s an ebay link (works for me).
How entitled of you to think that I am responsible for your stupidity And ignorance. And how fucking dare you try to blame me for it.
Read the fucking book
child
You said “advice please”, advice was given. No need to become aggressive, touch grass man.
If you don’t need an rpi specifically (i.e. for the built in CEC) you’re better off with something else.
But hey lets celebrate the fact that RPi Holdings managed to secure a large stock of memory chips at pre-inflation prices before the AI craze quadrupled those prices, and that they’re TOTALLY not ripping off their buyers right now!
Yeah, their earning report was really something. Raising prices due to “shortages” while reporting a record margin on their products.
(and let’s be honest here: The recent price increases do kind of kill the product line. Most people are better off with a cheap, maybe used thinclient for their homeserver needs. They are not those cheap thingies you can tinker around with anymore)
I’ve hit a goldmine with my work upgrading all of the PCs.
I now have two Dell Optiplex 7050 and a 3020 micro pcs, all with 8gb of replaceable RAM. Two of them came with 130gb M.2 SSDs, one with a 130gb SATA SSD. All told they cost me nothing, because the company can’t use them (they don’t support Win11), and there’s another 50 machines that can be sold if the boss can be arsed.
None of them will set the world alight, but they’re perfect for little things I want to do at home.
I spent yesterday setting up one of the 7050s with an M.2 NIC, then slapped Proxmox and OpenWRT on it and am now free of the shitty Linksys my ISP gave me.
Next up, I need to whip the two drives out of my 2014 Mac mini Debian server so I can replace it with something that can accept more RAM than the soldered 8gb I’m currently stuck with.
It’s fun!
The Pi 4 & 5 are no good for tinkering anymore, but the Pi Pico microcontrollers still are. I just hope they don’t screw that up too.
I knew them going public was a mistake.
The Foundation did great work, because it was by enthusiasts, for enthusiasts.
The private company, I can understand - after all money has to come from somewhere and for proper salaries etc., you need a company.
But going public was just inviting shareholder control, and we all know shareholders only care about short term profit extraction. This is perfectly visible - earnings good so stock goes up, shareholders enjoy dividends and sell high, company crashes and goodbye RasPi.
IIRC Arduino did the same and the only reason the brand is still alive is because Qualcomm decided to buy them up and enshittify the brand even further.
This is it. 100% Shareholders = enshittification.
