They became an industrial staple and are now priced as such. The kids who wanna learn can stick it, I guess.
Ever since they hired a cop to develop copware and their social media genius told us to go fuck ourselves (and their non-apology) they’ve been dead.
Don’t forget about COVID-times when they stopped selling to consumers in favor of corporations. Or when they spun the commercial sector of the Raspberry Pi Foundation out into its own for-profit business.
I didn’t hear about that. Do you have a link with more info?
Orange Pi?
What are some alternatives?
Price? Tiny/mini/micro PC
Simple sensor use? ESP32
Complex GPIO? Arduino is still a cheap option if you dont need it too standalone.
Straight up pi-alikes? OrangePi is my preferred
Most of what I personally use is esp32s and tiny/mini/micro. TMM for servers and services, esp32s for sensors, interfaces, prototyping, etc. If I need something fully standalone thats going to go in a rack or whatever, needs to be small and have all the GPIO, thats where I’ll use an orangpi, clockwork, whatever. Ive even used a tinkerboard or a Jetson (client paying obviously, because screw those prices and nvidia).
At that price point, a mini PC. Look at Dell or Lenovo, they make super small form factor computers that will blow a Pi out of the water.
It looks to me like they have lost focus on their original purpose. Which was to provide cheap and open compute opportunity for education and tinkering.
Dont they still dothis? And subsidise it with higher spec items?
lol no
The Pi Foundation’s mission died when it was reborn as a for-profit organization, and that was years ago.
Demonstrated clearly during the pandemic when they prioritized sales to businesses over anything else.
