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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 448 points 2 months ago

Well, so much for that I guess

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 136 points 2 months ago

Yeah its really too bad. I used to love the company but now I just don't see them making things for hobbies. Anyone know of some good alternatives? Ive heard good things about lepotato?

[-] bluGill@kbin.run 61 points 2 months ago

They were never about hobbies. We were a niche that they were happy to have, but they never cared. Origionally it was about education (which has a large overlap with hobbies so they served well).

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 232 points 2 months ago

A moment of silence for the company that once connected hobbyists with affordable hardware. It was never perfect, but the profound impact on makers and industry is undeniable.

I will remember you for what you once were, not what you came to be.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 156 points 2 months ago

Change name from RPi to RIP

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 26 points 2 months ago

RaspberryBye.

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[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 135 points 2 months ago

Garbage. They started this in order to provide very poor people the means to program and create things.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 121 points 2 months ago

It was a fun run.

I hope someone else comes up with a similar product soon.

[-] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago

Similar products exist, but I don’t think any of the others have quite the same level of official and community documentation.

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[-] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

I’m pretty sure there are a lot of similar boards out there

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

OrangePi comes to mind.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months ago

Banana Pis are great

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[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 119 points 2 months ago

2024 is going to be the year of ~~the Linux Desktop~~ enshittification. When anything you love goes public, you won't be loving it for much longer.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 57 points 2 months ago

And thus begins "why isn't the profit line going up?" phase of the company

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[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 88 points 2 months ago

Eh, the only thing that made RPi better than the alternatives was the size of the community and the amount of testing done for their hardware.

RIP.

Looking forward to whatever SBCs the community migrates to in the next year or so.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 months ago

The new ones are power hungry expensive monsters anyway. There are cheaper clones out there and I had pretty much decided never to pay for the gucci brand anymore.

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[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 87 points 2 months ago

Begun, the Clone Wars have.

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 85 points 2 months ago

Remember today when you reflect on what was stolen from us.

[-] thesmokingman@programming.dev 46 points 2 months ago

I’d argue it was taken from us several years ago when Raspberry made the decision to prioritize business customers over education and hobby during the chip shortages.

[-] Stitch0815@discuss.tchncs.de 83 points 2 months ago

Friendship ended with raspberry pi Now Pine 64 is my new best friend

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[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago

So that settles it. I have to get one now before they enshittify the new models.

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 months ago

The 5 is already somewhat enshittified. The Non Standard USB power that makes you buy a propietary PS is one example (which I found out after buying one for my son).

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[-] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago

The end of a beautiful era - hats off for all the folks who made the pi what it is, the folks who will now be forced to make us sorrowful for what it will become.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 2 months ago

I'm glad they came out as what they already were.

It was clear that they did not feel as a non-profit foundation for many years now.

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 30 points 2 months ago

For months it was impossible for me to get any Pis at MSRP and then my employer suddenly bought 30 of them to use for signage around the office. That's when I knew the non-profit hobbyist/enthusiast org was gone.

I'm not worried about it though. In the meantime a lot of other stellar SBCs have emerged on the market.

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[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago

Raspberry Pi Holdings has always been a for-profit company. This isn't some sort of new news with them going public.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a separate organization that has not gone public and continues to operate as a nonprofit. In fact, the IPO was structured to raise some funds for the foundation's global impact fund.

I am not saying that the IPO is a good thing, in fact I'm pretty certain it isn't, but it's worth knowing that Raspberry Pi is two different organizations with two different missions.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 months ago

Goodnight, sweet prince.

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago

This hurts.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 61 points 2 months ago

F

Time comes for us all.

[-] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 months ago

They've already gone downhill since 2020 when they couldn't keep up with the demand and focused on B2B sales. This really isn't a surprise to me

[-] fatalError 40 points 2 months ago

I thought they started from the idea of creating an affordable device mostly for people that need and can't afford a proper computer... I guess money gave them amnesia

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[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago

That explains the Pi 5 pricing. They started the enshittification early.

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

Shit. I guess my or anyone else's loyalty hasn't mattered. I've bought two competing products during the drought and now we are going to have maximum suckage from them since the investors will be driving the bus now. How long before they intentionally hold back functionality and hide it behind some bullshit subscription?

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Outside of a few small local businesses that actually care about doing right by people, loyalty hasn't mattered for decades dude. Companies don't give a shit about any of us. Why even bother thinking in terms of loyalty, it's completely misaligned with how they operate.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago

So on an unrelated note, what's the best alternative available right now?

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[-] shadow 35 points 2 months ago

Well, shit.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 months ago

pis have gotten less exciting over the years.

for those who are purely using the compute side of the pi is not as interesting anymore due to the flood of both 3rd party options, as well as used dirt cheap micro pcs (e.g Optiplex 9020 micros, 7040 micros, thinkcentre 710q)

and for those who program , they have to split based on usecase. for pure robotics and less compute, there isnt much of a reason to use a pi over an arduino. for IoT, using ESP32 are more useful for device to device communication, so pis sat in this weird spot where you needed it for basic compute (e.g. some object detection) or you needed the community behind pi. but since pis are being bought out by corpo, doong hobby work on a pi is too expensive nowadays. to me, pis died after their pricing tiers for memory not really being great (2019)

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

Booooooooooo!!!!! Boo I say!

I SAY BOO!!!

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 months ago

Gotta buy a share just so I can write angry shareholder letters

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago

Loved the Pi for hosting small services around the house. I've just replaced my Pi4 with a N100, 16GB, 512GB SSD mini pc which is so much faster, not to mention cheaper than a Pi5.

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[-] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Guess I should stock up while I can huh?

I’ve been a RPI fan since the beginning and have used their boards for all sorts of projects and tinkering. But it’s hard not to feel like it’s losing sight of what made it attractive in the first place: low power and low priced computing. It had its charm in buying a Pi Zero and just chucking emulators on it and handing them out to folks who might want to have a go.

But with the more expensive, more powerful hardware you just can’t really use them for things like that anymore. Just too expensive and too much oomph for the use case.

We’ll see if the company finds its way. But this usually isn’t a good sign…

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