Technology

shittification of technology by the ai companies much less innovation much higher cost much higher inflation caused by ai NOT deflation as elon and trump promised by ai. more gas lighting more hot air. less and less productivity.

also raspberry pi is made for the DIY community else just buy a PC delusional doesn't even know what their product is and was built for. my how the new culture are so far away from its roots after getting popular. this is why never ever let them become too big to not care about their core like all fang stonks and nvda google meta apple microsoft amazon all need to be canceled culturally. have no loyalty to any of them unless they give much better prices and product the answer is no and lower your prices.

EnshittyPi.

Google have an imei checker for their phones. Google.

You could check that it is real and active.

Raspberry pi could allow people to check their board model on their site to see if they are getting the right amount of RAM. They could devise a method to allow checking the correct RAM is attached and not a recovered stick off another board of the same size.

They've completely lost the plot. Raspberry Pi was founded on the principle of hacking, education, and doing more with less. It's their DNA, but now it's clear all they give a shit about is money. They are corporate garbage now, like so many other organizations in the FOSS community that gave up freedom and openness for the Almighty dollar (or pound in this case).

Eben Upton can suck my soldering iron.

the measure is primarily intended to prevent third parties from buying lower-capacity boards, replacing their RAM with cheaper parts of uncertain origin and then reselling the modified hardware as a higher-capacity model. The company argues that such modified boards have not undergone its validation process and could subsequently generate support requests if unstable memory is blamed on the company.

The solution to this decidedly rare problem is authorized resellers, not an arbitrary block on a very technically demanding upgrade.

That's assuming this is the actual problem though. If the problem is actually "We want to make more money by charging extra for 'enthusiast models'" then this is the correct tactic to ensure that you aren't undercut by cheap labor.

might as well just buy a normal laptop(or something used) then or smth if i decide this restriction is not fine,
also RPI5 8gb ram for 150~ usd alone is not worth it anymore, 80 usd was fine.

Enshitification will continue until morale improves

Another win for mini PCs. Pis priced themselves out of the market since pi4-pi5 imo

I can get a second hand mini pc or Optiplex for much cheaper, and with quick sync

So do we own the pi that we bought or does Raspberry Pi?

This makes sense. Hear me out.

1. A CM5 is a device designed to be embedded into other devices. I believe most of their sales come from just that- companies that make other things, and build a CM5 into them rather than design their own control board.

2. As you go up through the model tiers, the price increases faster than the added price of memory. IE, if the 2gb one is $20, and the difference between a 2gb memory chip and an 8gb memory chip is $10, the 8gb unit isn't $30 it's $60. You pay RPi a premium for the high end products.

3. Desoldering RAM off a production PCB is something no hobbyist is going to bother with. BUT, a company buying 10,000 of these to build into their product MIGHT find it cost effective to setup a production line to do so. And they could probably resell the 2gb chips.

Point being- while I don't like this, and I don't like the ideas it represents, I also understand why they are doing it. It's not about us, the hobbyists. It's about the manufacturers that build compute modules into their products.