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Wtf who would pay that much for a fuckin raspberry poo
The entire point of raspberry pi is that they're like $15 bucks for a bunch of cheap components. That's why in every picture there's no housing or anything. It's just a $0.10 pcb and a few dollars here and there of components from the same mass produced factory that's still producing the same usb ports and microcontrollers from old motherboards in 1999
Are you sure $385 isn't for like two hundred of them? For like students?
I switched to ESP32 chips for my hobbies and then the damn Europeans imposed tariffs on AliExpress &co and now even those cost double now.
Makes me extra angry that I got one the year it first released as an xmas gift from my parents... then a week later when i went looking for it my wife threw it out because she assumed all the bags from the gifts were empty... I never got a new one and still bitter about that one.
You could get a framework 13 mainboard for this much and use it for the same fucking purpose but it would have way more functionality.
Everyone here talking about raspberry pi and I still to this day have no idea what I can do with one.
I have one setup as an ad blocker (pihole)
I was going to make a bookshelf with one to control the lights.
You can buy used sff/micro computers on eBay for half that.
I’m a big supporter of RPI, purchased many different models over the years to run various services in my homelab. At this price point it doesn’t make any sense at all. Its USP was very low cost hardware to run Linux. I hope this isn’t the beginning of the end for them.
Boards with single memory chips are hit the hardest. When you increase the memory you have to go with a much denser individual chip and the denser the chip the more expensive it is.
I bought my first Pi in (I think) 2014. It's one of the things that got me into IT. The low price was an important feature, since I was much less reluctant to experiment and take risks with hardware that cost as much as a family meal. But nearly $400 the juice ain't worth the squeeze.
I guess I'm lucky in that I got a pi 5 back when they were selling at MSRP. I have a couple Pi 4's, two 3's (one I can't find anymore sadly), my original Pi 1 model B, an also lost Pi zero W that I successfully soldered the GPIO pin headers to, and a Pi 400 I bought on a whim.
When people ask me about experimenting with Linux I usually tell them to either emulate it in virtualBox or buy a Raspberry Pi if they want a bare metal experience. It was specifically because the Pi was cheap and thus low risk if something did go wrong.
So what I'm gathering is I should set aside my wife's broken pixel phone to use as a low power server.
The Pi's were unattainable I got a Libre Computer ( https://libre.computer/ ), still working great years later. There's lots of other alternatives out there too.
