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root42 1d ago

Fuck AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeX22LnKdFY
#dram #raspberrypi

This is no joke: the SBC hobby is dying

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Nazo 1d ago

@root42 That's the excuse definitely. But it doesn't cost that much for the amount (and especially the lower grade) of RAM they put in there.

They were already getting ridiculous long before the current shortages. When they started going over $100 IMO that's when the hobby was already dying. RPi used to aim for a $35 device and that was what gave us a cheap, minimal, plentiful general computing device. But then they just sort of lost sight of all that.

It's not just price. They started just treating them as if they were some kind of full blown PCs. They stopped doing a super minimal, super optimized setup with specialized packages and configurations to make simple things doable in 256MB of RAM. Now you need 4+GB to use them well...

Raspberry Pi was killed by... Themselves.

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root42 1d ago

@nazokiyoubinbou I slightly disagree. The Pi (and all of its clones like the Orange Pi etc) got so powerful due to better CPUs that they naturally approached the performance of regular PCs. At least marginally.
You still can buy a $35 Pi 4 with 1GB and use it for TONS of projects. So the 35 buck SBC still exists. And it still has 4-8x as much memory as the FIRST Raspberry Pi (128 in its first incarnation, 256 later). A seven fold increase in LPDDR4 WILL hurt the bigger Pi though.

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@nazokiyoubinbou e.g. for a PiStorm you don't NEED a 16GB Pi5 (in fact I am not even sure the Pi5 is supported), but a Pi Zero 2 will completely suffice and cost only $15.

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/

Hence I would say the Pi nowadays scales much better, with Pico as a $2 MCU, up to the Pi5 as an almost desktop class SBC. And the latter are hit by the DRAM price gouging, enforced by shitty AI craze.

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