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A formerly amazing charity now abandoning their principles and going for an IPO. What a shame.
Raspberry pi’s business sector (aka Raspberry Pi Trading) has never been non-profit. That’s who is going for an ipo.
Raspberry pics community sector (aka the Raspberry Pi Foundation) is the non-profit, and will remain as such.
Edit: Here’s my source.
Things looked bad when they hired that cop and doubled down on his defensive BS. Now it’s arduino and esp32s for me
Orange pi and banana pi and other knock offs is good too… Yet, till they follow that path too
Aaron Swartz is probably spinning in his grave right now
Quick, bring the generator to harvest the green energy!
Is it time for RISC-V to shine?
Market Capitalism has poisoned the very core of humanity, civilization, and literally the COMMUNal environment we all rely on from one breath to the next.
Good thing the market capitalists are so fucking confident that the solution is… going harder on market capitalism. We’ll just merge, monopolize, and lay off our way into human happiness and equilibrium, won’t we?
That’s why the owners propagating this system are building luxury bunker compounds in places like New Zealand, because they’re planning to clean up their mess and have confidence in a bright future!
Can you link to these NZ bunkers ?
Also you know that NZ is basically a giant volcano. Lake Taupo, is a scheduled to blow and will wipe out most of the north island.
It isn’t some magically island paradise that the rich can runaway from the world.
They’re also building quite a few in the heartland of the US. Although honestly I think they’re one big scam by the people actually constructing them – fully stocked luxury bunker for you, your family, friends, etc all on some billionaires’ dime. If shit hits the fan and you don’t let them in what’re they gonna do – sue you about it?
The billionaire doomsday prepper mindset is ridiculous when you think about it for 30 seconds. Physical control over the resources around would be all that mattered, not how much Monopoly money you had in the before times.
Not to mention that billionaires are fancy lads and lasses expecting to be waited on hand and foot. When their operations and Security people, people much more generally competent then them in every conceivable real world way, no longer has use for them or their paychecks, they will become their bunkers very, very quickly, especially because wealthy people don’t know how to share and will treat them as staff and not people, let alone friends.
I can’t imagine them finding security that meets their standards for employment that also lacks opportunism. You don’t agree to protect Bezos from the hoards of Bezos’ victims without being selfish to begin with.
And for what reason exactly? IPOs are either for owners to cash out or for the company to gather investment money. RPi doesn’t really need money, they sell an extremely popular product. They literally can’t produce enough product to quench the Pi thirst.
I don’t expect people to see any change in how we do things.
When companies say this, they’ll usually do the exact opposite later down the line.
Stating outright that you don’t expect the obvious thing that always happens to happen… bro you’re already giving shareholders a reason to say you’re an incompetent manager and replace you with someone that will gut the company for stock growth.
Exactly that’s just bullshit to make people think everything is gonna be fine. It’s the stock market. People with the most shares demand you make them more money. That’s how it works. So everything will be turned upside down at some point.
When you hear this from any company, get out. Sell whatever you have in it immediately. Even if you take a loss, you’ll take a bigger one waiting it out.
Enshittification be like
Going public will fuck them up. Every corporate move will be tied to the stock. It will inevitably destroy them.
Which, at this point, I’m here for. Although I do miss the days when they were a force for good. Or at least nerds. Ah well. Sayonara, you insulting bastards.
Raspberry Pi 5 is the first model that had 0 hype online. It seems people have already started to move on.
A couple years of not being able to buy them anywhere close to MSRP did enough damage I guess. Plus it exposed people to some alternatives.
Plus the Pi5 sucks.
Can you elaborate why? I’m curious
Too high power draw and very expensive. 25watt is basically the same as a mini PC but with less performance and worse software compatibility.
The price with all the required “accessories” puts it around 90-110 bucks. Awfully close to the mini PC as well
Jeff Geerling recently made a video about it
Considering I could order an Orange Pi with 32gb of ram and still cant get a Rp5… yeah the king is dead.
The RPi was always very overpriced. I think they knew they were selling a lifestyle product from day 1, you know, “here’s the new toy for the tech crowd that has too much money anyway”. Sometimes I cannot believe what ridiculous sums of cash people give out for SoCs with custom cases that are definitely not worth the pay-up, ex. the whole clockworkOS computers which got abandoned by the manufacturer few months going forward, and the massive financial hurdle to become a part of the user community means the community/fan crowd just implodes as soon as the tech bros find a more shiny device to waste money on. Then all you got is abandoned hardware with no community support.
The pi at initial release before all the supply chain problems, and Pi’s focus on corporate customers was $20.
There was nothing like it which is why it deserved the hype.
But now it’s $75 and needs a custom USB c power supply. So it’s pointless for most uses. As another pointed out, an N100 on the high end and esp32 on the low end make it a tiny niche.
Of all the things I expected to enshittify during 2024 I certainly didn’t expect we’d start with the Pi.
Pi was just the first. There are so many tiny hobbiest computers out there now. Not gonna sweat it.
Pi was the third and some decimals. But your point stands.
Oh no, the tipping point for enshitification. First it was selling all the stock to corporate clients, now this.
Enshitification of Rasoberrypi. Didn’t see that coming.
is there any comparable risc-v option?
STAR64? Don’t know how they compare on benchmarks, but Pine64 has a few products that are risc-v.
Afaik the StarFive SOCs used in SBCs are a lot slower than current ARM offerings. Part of that might be because software support is worse, so maybe compilers and related tooling aren’t yet optimized for them?
Hopefully development on these continues to improve though. The biggest nail in the coffin for Pi alternatives has been software support.
It’s also a super new architecture and completely open source. Development will simply be slower. There’s enough “mainstream” Pi competitors with risc-v offerings though that I’m confident that it will happen.
Gross.
Anyone wanna start up a 501c3 to fill in the void?
RIP Rasbery Pi. IPO is good for investors, not for consumers.
RIP Raspberry Pi. Whenever-2024
2012, I think… that’s why I got my first Pi. I guess the enshitification will begin :(
ahh shit…here we go again
AAAAAAAAA I HATE ENSHITTIFICATION
WHY DO YOU ALWAYS NEED MORE FUCKING MONEY
FUCK
Its been coming for a while tho. They abandoned the affordable market long ago. Buy banana pis or other knockoffs, those have been better than the raspberry versions for a long time anyways…
uh oh.
rpis are gonna be a subscription service now.
Who’s the competition at this point? We need a competitor now.
- Radza (make RockPi)
- Pine64
- FriendlyARM (NanoPi)
- Orange Pi
- SinoVOIP (Banana Pi)
- HardKernel (Odroid)
- LicheePi (for RISC-V lovers)
I guess I better buy a new Pi before they quintuple in price for half the quality
If you don’t need any of the Pi specific features. Then buy a sbc from another brand. You get way more for your money and more features
What are some examples of pi specific features which other brands don’t support?
