@vurpo @baalroga I'm not sure the ex-cop bit was even entirely the problem, some people would probably always have been put off by it but I suspect in-and-of-itself most people wouldn't have cared much.

The issue came that their ‘maker background’ wasn't ‘weather stations are cool’ or such, it was ‘well my last job, as a cop, was to make wildly unethical and possibly actually illegal devices and rpi was handy for that’ …and like, rpi thought this was somehow good.