[object Object]Feb 28

things are going just great for raspberry pi:

- the only distro that ships the drivers for my display is raspberry pi os so fuck it, terrible it is
- I dd it to the microsd card
- I can’t kvm to the pi4 cause nothing uses microhdmi so I don’t have an adapter
- there’s no way to configure networking and SSH without imager cause all methods were removed in favor of fucking Canonicial cloud-init of all things, which they haven’t actually implemented
- my nixpkgs has a broken rpi imager

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holy fucking shit maybe it should go without saying that I’m not asking for help and I’m especially not asking for help based on something you got from fucking ChatGPT

raspberry pi community are you ok?

Show threadneoludditeFeb 28
@zzt @jpm They hired a UK spy cop a year or two ago and a lot of people left the community over it. Mostly the rPi community is just techno fascists and other morons now.
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@neoluddite @jpm buying this rpi was like pulling fucking teeth for me because of that, it’s an absolute last resort purchase I still regret

unfortunately, these fuckers have done the techfash thing and made themselves a broken ecosystem with no way out

not that most of their shit community will notice, they just want a digital picture frame that runs openclaw or whatever horseshit some rpi influencer told them they should build

Show threadI love this, so IFeb 28
@zzt @neoluddite yeah I absolutely get it. The other half of it is, RPi isn’t for hackers, it’s for industrial control systems. See who they kept selling to during 2020-2023.
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@jpm @neoluddite my favorite thing about the rpi is it started life as an extremely unsuccessful Broadcom set top box board

yes, that’s why it boots from the GPU and why the port layout is a fucking crime

you’d think they’d have undone any of that since then but as you said, hackers don’t use rpi, rpi uses hackers. decades of free labor and goodwill to turn a failure into a success

Show threadMoses Izumi
@zzt @jpm @neoluddite
If the Raspberry Pi company cared about hackers, they would've leaned way harder into the DIY portable electronics scene.

Imagining a world where every vaguely motivated user builds their own laptops and phones around standardized components (just like with desktops): instead of making gross compromises to get the features they want.
Feb 28 at 2:58pmWeb