Jeff GeerlingOn April fools, Raspberry Pi price increases are no joke — my thoughts on the slow demise of the hobbyist SBC market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeX22LnKdFY
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Baggypants@geerlingguy 1GB pi5 is still under £50. 'Hobbyists' who need 16GB are not short of options.
@Baggypants the problem is under 2 GB gets really tight with Pi OS and a lot of applications.
Sadly... it used to be easier on 32 bit OSes with native apps that cared a smidge about performance and efficiency. Maybe we can get back to that!
Edwin Jones@geerlingguy @Baggypants 2GB is the bare minimum even for things like xmbc these days in my experience. I don't know how I managed on 512MB before but I imagine 32 bit played a big part as you say.
@edwin I'm clearly not talking about people and their high seas pursuits, they have a large number of other options.
@Baggypants neither was I.