Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February

That's nice. Let me know when they're $30 again.

The Pi foundation showed their true colors. Don't continue to support them.

The 3B+ was probably the high of the raspberry pi. It is still pretty much unrivaled in terms of idle power consumption and energy efficiency (or at least i have not seen any other SBC that got below 0.5 Watts on idle) on the consumer market.

But i have trouble investing further into them.

1. They do not post any update guides for newer Debian releases and basically only support new deployments.
2. It looks like they are abandoning their older products. vcgencmd for example is still broken on the 3B+. Since they "fixed" it for the 4B. See https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1224

Are they still telling their users to suck it?

https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry-pis-incident-on-the-fediverse/

I think pi is on the road to mainstream. Probably time to shift to an open source hardware competitor to boost it. Not saying pi is bad, I have one and its great. Those like me who love tinkering should consider going the extra mile and „radicalize“ themselves to open hardware. The project I hear the most of is Banana-PI. https://www.banana-pi.org

Pi 5 sucks massive balls.

They now require a special power supply for it to work else it just crashes under load. Their use of USB C is insanely confusing because it doesn't work with any normal USB C psu.

This power supply costs 15 bucks which conveniently isn't included in the price. Also a heat sink that costs 6 bucks.

Also they stuck with micro hdmi which sucks. (even more special accessories needed)

The required accessories almost cost as much as just an old pi.

I hope the community jumps over to Rockchip based boards soon. Pi has taken the communities open source efforts and spit in their face.

Risc5 is also interesting but that seems to be a far bigger task since it need recompilation of a lot of existing stuff

If you're thinking about buying, be aware they removed the audio jack.

Ok, I can buy a quad core thin client for $30. The prices for these are too high for what they are.

I'm just hoping rockchip gets better kernel support. They are way better positioned on the CxB scale.

But you can get a used thinkcentre tiny mini micro on ebay for $80. Wtf would I spend 100+ on a pi?

Too many other options to be excited about their offerings anymore

The power button and RTC are my two favorite additions lol

$100 for no h265 hardware encoding.

Hard pass.

I need a lot of good CM4's. I hope they're still ramping those up 😞

Cool! More ewaste and destruction of the environment during a climate emergency!