They are at war against ownership (not raspberry pi org, but the general oligarchy). It's the next step coming after "every software is a cloud service subscription". We are heading towards the "you can't own a computer, just rent one from the cloud". In this day and age, computers are necessary, for everything, for education, public services, employment, entertainment. Once we have to pay taxes to the Lords in order to have access to our mean of substance, we are essentially in a new era of feudalism.
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One could call it "technofeudalism".
That's exactly where this is headed. Modern day slavery. They take away the usability of offline devices so we only use their devices to use their apps and work for their companies, and anyone trying to circumvent this (VPNs, refusing Age Verification, Piracy, FOSS) gets visited by the technofeudalists' friends at ICEstapo.
yeah it's the "war on computation" that's the other term Cory Doctorow coined apart from "enshitification"
I'm not too worried about this. It sucks for the time being, and who knows how long they economy will suffer when the US fully collapses. The silver lining is that the actual cost of producing the hardware doesn't match the inflated evaluation of it. The drivers of this won't be able to sustain the hoarding. Don't get me wrong, it's bad. Anyone with a time machine would probably chose to give Peter and Sam a visit.
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To be fair, who needs 16GB of RAM on a Pi? The hell are you running on it that needs that? Are you trying to use it as a desktop?
Considering the 3 only had 2GB of ram, and the 4 only had 4GB of ram for the longest time, it's probably better to compare the 8GB model. Which is still $135.
Even the 1GB model is $50. Fucking ridiculous.
I have the 8 GB one.
I agree the 16 GB one is useless (especially how weak it is)
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Are you trying to use it as a desktop?
Why not. It has enough power. But you can easily consume all that RAM if you run Minecraft server, or crypto software
But why would you do that on a raspberry?
I mean if you have one already go ahead do your thing! But here we're talking buying a new one.
At that price it's really pointless.
But at normal prices, you can slap passive radiator on it, and have perfectly decent server for these things taped to the wall behind your desk. Zero noise, minimal power consumption, works reliably 24h
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I didn't believe it, i mean they were pricey as hell but this is taking the biscuit now 😞
I got mine 4 months ago for 120€ (including Power Plug, mini HDMI cable, Case and a Cooler/Fan)
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$270 of the price is for the RAM.
We went from cheap hobby computer to luxury item with emotional damage real quick 💀
I read a headline yesterday that said the rpi price increase was "eye watering". I believe that's called journalistic understatement.
Fuck me, I thought it was an exaggeration
No more cheap portable control stations for DIY projects for now. 😢
That's what you get for trying to have fun instead of gaining value for shareholders.
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wtf is even happening
End stage capitalism.
It'll get lots worse before it gets better.
We are in the early stages of post capitalism. Capitalism has finished, the major players have won and there won't be any new major players emerging. Post capitalism is where economic systems no longer operate under traditional capitalist principles. It's about the shift away from labour being the foundation of wealth.
Read up on it, the world is quite clearly transitioning
The old world is dying.
The new world struggles to be born.
Now is the time of enshittification.
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I hope one of the effects will be that people stop building 5gb websites and apps on some weird js framework to show a tweet or sth. Efficiency is one of the things we can improve
I miss when technology would get cheaper and better.
bu-but youtube tech newsies told me ram prices were going to drop any day now...th-that OpenAI was going to shut down while ignoring they fact they just raised $122billion...
Idk who on YouTube told you that but you need to refine your news sources. Most people want that to happen, but they know the reality is that it wont
Raising 122 billion in IOUs is not what you think it is. AI (LLMs) are here to stay, but it's a bubble just like the cloud shit was.
There is a reason both of these companies keep pushing back their IPO... gotta cook the books more to make it seem like they're what they claim to be worth.
Also on ram prices:
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I really should sell all the optiplexes I have instead of recycling them. I bet I could make some ok money.
I bought a HP ProDesk 400 G5 Desktop Mini (16GB RAM; 256GB ssd; Intel Core i5-9500T) in December 2025 for £105 delivered.
There's money to be made.
I think you’re right
I have about 24 to get rid of…
Definitely don't throw those away! There are plenty of people who will be happy to get one. In the current climate, these things are a precious resource.
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Raspberry Pi's were amazing when they were like $30.... cheap enough to be accessible to most people and you could do a lot with them. I still have an older Pi that runs pihole.
Now that it's $300, there are a lot of other options out there. I find it hard to recommend a Pi anymore.
Good news is that micro controllers and used office PCs are still fairly affordable by comparison... for now.
Pis have been overpriced for a long time now. They're often just expensive or more expensive than a mini pc. And the mini pc's are nearly as power efficient while being much more capable.
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That isn't really fair. After all raw sewage can be used to create fertilizer and the output of the slop machines can't.
Wow it has gotten that bad, and now price to performance is now shit.
Am curious if Orange Pi raised in Price too.
I mean the modern RPI are much different then the older models. Much more advanced much better hardware.
This one has 16gb of ram for Christ sake. That's more then most phones.
AI has for sure made it more expensive but RPI haven't been the "cheap hobbiest IoT" device for many years now.
It's now in the realm of "professional hobbiest"
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