Unless you have a true, irreplaceable need for a 16GB model, everyone should just pretend they don't exist.<p>Most hobby use cases would be fine with the 1GB, 4GB, or even 8GB versions.<p>I thought we all established long ago that trying to use a Raspberry Pi like a computer or laptop replacement was not a good idea, because every past Rapsberry Pi thread has been inundated with comments encouraging everyone to get a NUC or a used computer instead.<p>The Raspberry Pi is great if you need what it offers, but at some point the mainstream Raspberry Pi community lost the plot and started treating them like laptop, desktop, or server replacements, which they were never great at. Now that the people who need a desktop or server have re-discovered that they're better off using an actual desktop or an actual server for their purposes, we should get back to treating these like embedded systems boards.
I get it that it's not necessary but the ram upgrade from 8 to 16 used to be a $40 splurge, and that was with healthy profits for everyone involved.<p>And now you pay the old 16GB price for 4GB.
I just got a Minisforum UM870 Slim with AMD Ryzen™ 7 8745H for €304 (taxes included + €30 shipping), and sourced locally used SODIMM DDR5 RAM at ~120 EUR for 16GB: I'd certainly take a full-fledged mini PC at 450 EUR than a Pi at 385 USD + VAT + customs fee (pretty much the same price most likely).<p>Yes, I'm missing an NVMe SSD in there too, but I've got a bunch of older 512GB drives around from upgraded computers.<p>Power usage is probably lower on the Pi5, but likely not by much anymore in the idle state.
The RPI was really good because it was a powerful SOC that ran Linux with lots of GPIO and easy to operate. Now there are a dime a dozen ESP32 based projects that give you the same flexibility. You should almost never buy a RPI for projects these days, its completely overkill
A Pi 4 is my son's primary computer, GCompris, Tux Racer, my vibe coded apps for him are the primary use cases.
Are they using the gpio/i2c/spi at all? Otherwise literally anything else is better.<p>Even if using those, if it's not in a robot or a weatherproof box on a pole or something, then a usb gpio dongle on a pc or mac makes 900x more sense.<p>The fact that something is done does not serve as an example that something makes any sense to do.<p>Using a pi for a computer is like when women knit sweaters for things that don't benefit from sweaters.
And at $400 it doesn't make sense for it to be. You could buy a much better computer for the same price.
> because every past Rapsberry Pi thread has been inundated with comments encouraging everyone to get a NUC or a used computer instead.<p>The thing is, they are all x86. The currently available ways to get an ARM general purpose computer are... Raspberry, Raspberry clones of various degrees of shittyness, Apple's lineup and a few Chromebooks plus even rarer Windows systems that no one wants because nothing runs on them.
> Windows systems that no one wants because nothing runs on them<p>You might want to give Windows on Arm another spin if you haven't touched it lately, because you're either operating on very outdated information or you work in a very narrow field. Everything I tried throwing at it runs on mine. Exceptions are some drivers and kernel mode anticheat in games.
They got 3% of market share [1]. That's laughable, no one tests for that, and I personally won't touch Qualcomm crap with a ten foot pole if I can avoid it.<p>[1] <a href="https://itdaily.com/blogs/workplace/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-pc-windows-on-arm/" rel="nofollow">https://itdaily.com/blogs/workplace/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-pc...</a>
They didn't dispute market share, they were just suggesting that the software deficiencies you were pointing out are outdated.
2027 is the year of the Linux.. er. ARM Windows desktop!
What about a $500 Mac Mini?
> <i>Unless you have a true, irreplaceable need for a 16GB model</i><p>I need to `npm install strip`
People are irrationally obsessed with the idea of a very small cheap computer that could replace their laptop or desktop, for no reason.<p>If you created a little cube the size of an Apple Watch with built in WiFi and Bluetooth, and maybe put a little LED screen on it, and it could run Linux and could be powered with POE and USB-C or something, people would feel an urge to just buy one, with no real use case for it.
> Most hobby use cases would be fine with the 1GB, 4GB, or even 8GB versions.<p>Oh yup... I'm running <i>unbound</i> (DNS resolver) at home 24/7 on a Pi 3 from 2015 since years and years. Zero issue. I run that on a Pi because that one really needs to be on 24/7 and hardly consumes any resources (I mean: it's just DNS queries). But a Pi simply ain't good for much more than that.<p>> I thought we all established long ago that trying to use a Raspberry Pi like a computer or laptop replacement was not a good idea, because every past Rapsberry Pi thread has been inundated with comments encouraging everyone to get a NUC or a used computer instead.<p>I fully agree. For the proper stuff I encourage anyone to buy used enterprise gear with proper RAM (<i>i.e.</i> ECC RAM) and a proper CPU (like a Xeon).<p>I've got four NUCs too but the real workhorse is a used Xeon with ECC RAM.<p>> The Raspberry Pi is great if you need what it offers, but at some point the mainstream Raspberry Pi community lost the plot and started treating them like laptop, desktop, or server replacements, which they were never great at.<p>I agree. I've got like seven Pi (I was an early adopter of those) but don't ever plan to buy another.<p>It's like you said: they lost the plot (not just the community: those who make them too).
I'm buying up broken screen old Android smartphone instead.<p>For example I got several broken screen Huawei P20s from 2018, they were 10€ each. 128GB storage with 4GB RAM <a href="https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_p20-9107.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_p20-9107.php</a><p>They boot up, you can install termux and then whatever is your choice of Linux software. I run several copyparty instances for friends and family<p><a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/</a><p><a href="https://github.com/9001/copyparty" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/9001/copyparty</a><p>The only thing I'm not a big fan of is the charging. Non-removable battery, already 8 or so years old, obviously the phone needs power to work. So I'm a bit worried about the fire hazard.
>Huawei P20<p>>The only thing I'm not a big fan of is the charging. Non-removable battery, already 8 or so years old, obviously the phone needs power to work. So I'm a bit worried about the fire hazard.<p>My family (n=3) owned the Huawei P20 Pro (acquired at the same time in the same promo, perhaps the same batch?). This product line seems to have serious issues with battery swelling. Each phone had spicy pillows at some point within 2 years of ownership. Even outside the warranty period, Huawei was willing to replace the battery at their cost, at their contracted Toronto repair centre. Each of the repaired phones had their spicy pillows return within 6-9 months. Huawei was still willing to repair the phones, but at that point I'd rather have recycled it. I strongly suspect Huawei was avoiding doing a voluntary recall and triaging it through their RMA process, given how little resistance their customer support put up (they immediately sent back an RMA label without requiring any pictures).
To add onto this for others.<p>There is Android TalkBack (for poor vision) which is available on first boot/factory reset that narrates the menu. Even with a completely broken screen you can get ADB set up.
Android TV boxes are also great.<p>Slightly more expensive but you won't have to deal with battery health and the new ones come with a 1GB NIC and USB 3 ports!
I've always had bad luck with those. They very quickly start running poorly, maybe because the flash worn out.
... and they're locked down. Aren't they? What box would you recommend?
If you’re in the U.S - look into Walmart’s ONN boxes. They’re cheap and have great performance. Specifically the ONN 4k pro. They’re not even bloated with apps. The apps that are installed can easily be removed. In addition, easy to side load apps and customize.
There's enough exploits these days, the only advantage of most of these things running on many years old BSPs
Was considering doing the same until I found a couple old pine64 on eBay for ~$25 (2016, 4 core allwinner CPU, 2gb ddr3)<p>Sometimes there are pretty good deals on laptops, especially off lease. I've seen some $400-500 w/ 32GB RAM pop up on Slickdeals every few months.
You can get plenty of mini PCs, used computers and used phones in that price range. They aren’t a substitute for owning a raspberry pi though.
How are you getting GPIO?
Most likely he doesn't use GPIO, if it's just a tailscale/pi-hole client or something like that.<p>If you REALLY need GPIO then just add a USB-C OTG MCU board like a ESP32, or even the ancient Arduino Uno works as USB GPIO via serial TTY on Android.<p>Or just use a ESP32 by itself, if you don't need a full Linux OS, just to toggle some GPIO pins via the internet.<p>Possibilities are endless. Just use your imagination, or ask some LLM.
How to control the gpio?
Several methods. You can run a MQTT server, Lightweight HTTP Server or even just serial over USB. Literally the world is your oyster. Extra special points if you do HTTP over ethernet
Flash the MCU with a program that takes a text protocol over the UART from the host and uses it to control its GPIOs
How did you get into the phones with broken screen?
are you running an EOL OS with an unpatchable kernel? phones have a lot of limitations as general purpose computers
Or buy used laptops with defects like broken screen or keyboard from FB marketplace.
Not in my area at least. People gut the RAM from them now to sell separately for profit, and often the HDD too for privacy, so you're basically buying a paper weight that's a motherboard in a shell.<p>There's laptops or X86 tablets with soldered RAM but those are rare and vanish immediately if they show up at a good price.
this is the way. samsung dex is pretty awesome to turn them into pseudo desktop computers.
Sure... but... the original $35 RasPi is closer to a modern RasPi Zero 1, which looks like it's selling for $45 - $50 on Amazon.<p>Modern top-of-the-line RasPis seem more like ARM PCs with fast, efficient multi-core CPUs and GigE. I bought a RasPi 500 at the beginning of the year just to see what it was like and it's my new "email and light web browsing" daily-driver. Though yeah, I probably wouldn't have paid $410 for it.<p>I bought my original RasPi mostly for the I/O. I wanted to blink some lights, drive some servos. And if I wanted to do that again, I would probably buy a Pico or Zero.
> Sure... but... the original $35 RasPi is closer to a modern RasPi Zero 1, which looks like it's selling for $45 - $50 on Amazon.<p>You want the Pi Zero 2 W, which is under $20 when it's in stock.<p>You also need to buy somewhere other than Amazon, which is where sellers go to unload their inventory at exorbitant prices between restocks.
> Sure... but... the original $35 RasPi is closer to a modern RasPi Zero 1, which looks like it's selling for $45 - $50 on Amazon.<p>Yeah, because a second-hand 13-year-old computer is gonna last quite a long time.
If you need GPIO pins, ESP32 is good enough for lots of use cases. If you just need a small low-power PC, used enterprise thin clients and mini-pc's (google project tinyminimicro) offer more while still idling around 10W or less. Those can be still bought for like 40-100 USD with SSD and 8GB or more RAM included.<p>I think Raspberry Pi is worth it only for some niche use-cases with current prices.
Presumably the only customers buying Pis right now are companies who use them in their products. There are much better options on the used market for people needing small computers/servers.
> There are much better options on the used market for people needing small computers/servers.<p>Most people realized that the Raspberry Pi was never a great desktop or server replacement a long time ago.<p>It's an embedded system and it's best when used for embedded applications.<p>These are still purchased and used by hobbyists, but the people who were trying to use them as servers or desktops are not the target audience.
You know, a RPi 5 1GB is $77, 4GB is $109, 8GB is $170 and 16GB is $385. None of it makes sense, especially if anyone starts a reballing shop.<p>I was looking to try out Joel's TrueNAS on ARM this time with a Pi 5, a PoE and NVMe Hat ... I decided against it and ended up getting a good old cheap x86 compact NAS instead.<p>The pricing is off.
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You know, a RPi 5 1GB is $77, 4GB is $109, 8GB is $170 and 16GB is $385. None of it makes sense, especially if anyone starts a reballing shop.<p>Reballing the RAM of the Raspberry Pi is blocked by its firmware:<p><a href="https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2380887#p2380888" rel="nofollow">https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2380887#p2380...</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786689">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786689</a><p><a href="https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/761" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/761</a><p>EDIT: See also <a href="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-ram-lockdown/" rel="nofollow">https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/raspberry-pi-ram-lock...</a> linked under <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50429356">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50429356</a>
I have been buying and using Raspberry Pi 400 (Broadcom BCM2711 quad-core Cortex-A72 ARM v8 64-bit SoC running at 1.8 GHz, 4GB LPDDR4-3200 RAM) that goes from $50 to $39 (Microcenter yesterday). One can do a lot with this.<p>For everything else, either go lower level with ESP32 or higher level with a mini pc.<p>That's where we are right now.
The disruption to consumer electronics, both PCs and SBCs, will last for several years at minimum
I have a little Linux box that I've been trying to use more frequently instead of my MacBook. Partially just for fun, partially because I want to decouple a little bit from the Apple ecosystem.<p>I was having a <i>ton</i> of stability issues: my filesystem would randomly go read-only after a few minutes. After trawling through my system logs, Claude suggested that it was a memory issue. I ran MemTest86 and it bailed out after 10,000 errors.<p>So now I was very depressed because RAM prices are sky-high and I currently cannot justify spending ~$150---more than what I paid for when I got this box used off of Ebay mind you---to replace the RAM inside.<p>Then I remembered my wife had an old laptop she hasn't touched in <i>years</i> lying around. I popped it open and, lo and behold, the RAM was compatible! I felt very fortunate that I was able to do that. Thoughts and prayers for all the folks who need memory---I've felt the despair.
Attaching 16 GB of precious RAM to that cheap weak SoC is, at this point, a waste of resources. The original idea was - cheap SoC + cheap RAM = cheap SBC. The SoC is still cheap and crappy but the RAM is now worth so much more. The pairing no longer makes any practical sense.
RPi Foundation decided who their customers were during and after the pandemic, no doubt thanks to years of community goodwill put into an increasingly uncompetitive product, especially so now. The good thing is the world moved on, there's tons of alternatives, and you really should look elsewhere and also past SBCs for anything with <i>that</i> much RAM.
I don't mean this with snark, but who did they land on? I have struggled to place the Pi for a long time because the range of things it can do is so broad, but then it gets limited by things like using an SD card for primary storage (which can fail). So while this could be a perfectly good home server, I wouldn't be able to rely on the boot drive. It also makes a really good first computer, but leaving it naked doesn't mean I can slot it in front of my kiddos and hope they'll be fine. I keep a Pi running attached to a monitor in my kitchen running a Home Assistant dashboard, and that's pretty good, but is that the sweet spot?
The Pi 5 (and 4?) can boot from external hard drives, including NVMe SSDs over PCIe. Granted, you're limited to PCIe 2.0 x1 (~1 Gb/s) or USB 3 (5 Gb/s), but the point still stands.
ESP32 devices are still cheap enough but with a less-good ecosystems due to the Pi's popularity. I do plan on picking up a few Pi 2 Ws which are still selling at a MicroCenter near me for $18 with only three bucks of markup just for setting up a Pi-Hole and some other IoT project but yeah, looking at even the Chinese made boards like Raspberry Orange sees prices north of $70 which is just not worth it for something with this capability. At this point, why not just get a refurb'd thin client or mini-pc?
Esp32 is pretty damn powerful for the cost. We have one driving a display and keyboard, speaking and playing synthesize sounds through attached sound chip, driving an ADC over SPI at a high rate and talking Bluetooth to an attached device and talking wifi to the cloud. On a device that costs a few bucks.
You can buy them for very cheap on AliExpress. I spent more on a very cheap $6 soldering kit than on the ESP32 board I had to solder.
And it all started with $32. Also 16GB of RAM is a lot for RPi, IMO.
It started at $35/unit, in the United States at least. I've still got the invoice for my 256MB Model B...<p>$35 today gets you a 1GB Pi 4 Model B. For somebody who actually needs the form factor, it's pretty much a fine value.<p>For somebody who wants a server, it's always been a weird choice. (sorry Jeff :D )<p>For somebody who wants a desktop, the Raspberry Pi 500+ was a really fun choice when I bought mine in January. They cost twice as much today, which is sad. (although if anyone is feeling the desire <i>and</i> lives near a store, Microcenter has them on sale for $100 off...)
The entry level option is the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, which is still $15<p><a href="https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/" rel="nofollow">https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/</a><p>It also has twice the RAM of the original Raspberry Pi (at launch), plus WiFi, plus a lot of CPU power, and a powerful GPU, and a lot more.<p>I have a 16GB model and I use that much RAM for some specific development work on the Raspberry Pi platform, but now I wish they had never announced the 16GB model. It has created so many complaints from people who shouldn't and won't be buying it.
It depends a lot on your use case. For headless stuff (automation that mostly uses the GPIO, for instance, or running a few "old school" server processes), you usually don't need that much RAM. However, when used as desktop computers, 8GB becomes the bare minimum to run a modern Web browser with a few tabs...
Someone said 640kB is enough for everyone.
Old lenovo mini computers unless you need something very lightweight.
I bought this at launch and didn’t think much. It’s weird seeing price go up as much.
Why do you want Pi5 if you can get a smartphone with a screen?
Because a smartphone is locked down by default. I'm sure there's lots you can't just easily do with it.<p>The development experience of something like Android itself seems super unfriendly for beginners (as someone who is admittedly a beginner to it)
It's not as locked down as you might think. I was surprised how easy it was to root a couple of devices, one an old pixel and one a pretty new one<p>It's definitely a bit odd, the Android environment, but I didn't feel blocked on it. Also ended up unrooting one because termux and the built in debian VM on Android now give everything I need<p>Termux + X11+ XFCE is surprisingly nice on a vanilla phone
The Raspberry Pi is also somewhat locked down compared to most competing devices. But yeah phones are even more. :)
There is a lot of AI-aided effort going on "hacking" the bootloaders. Hopefully someone will figure out how to unlock them.
Do you think perhaps there are reasons other than using ... a smartphone?
Look, it's a misallocation of resources for you to own any RAM at all, and you should thank Sam Altman for letting you have some at any price.
It's impressive how evidently right he is in the context he spoke those words in and how pervasive the narrative twisting them has gotten.
This strategy is designed to protect their margins so nobody can self-host similarly capable models.<p>Unfortunately there is no appetite for governments to step in.
Is it a worse misallocation, I wonder, than doing what most people do with Raspberry Pis, which is leave it in a drawer ;-)
make a 128GB version and call it Raspberry Ai<p>What on earth are these SKUs even targeting? 16GB in a raspi is nuts.
You are one executive order [0] behind, and are legally required to call it the Raspberry Si<p>0: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/" rel="nofollow">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inau...</a>
that's a scam to move money from Anguilla (.AI) to Slovenia (.SI)
Unless they're <i>part of the executive branch</i> that order doesn't apply. (Which is kind of too bad, under the "if it actually works it gets a name and isn't AI anymore" rules we <i>need</i> a new name... but This Isn't It.)
Used laptops have always been a better value.
The prices are crazy, but the uncertainty makes the choices even harder. I have my eyes on a Framework laptop 13 for some time. I was considering buying it with less RAM now, and then buying more RAM later. Now what I fear is: by the time RAM prices become reasonable, we might as well be using DDR7. So, even with a custom-built desktop PC or a Framework laptop it would be a pity to have to upgrade everything. On the other hand, it may well be our new reality, so maybe better buying in into 64GB RAM now? Not even sure if my reasoning is correct.
I don't understand? Should they be sold at a lower price when people are still willing to buy at the current higher price?
It isn’t even about people willing to buy at $X. The Pi foundation has to pay for RAM like everyone else.
The purpose of the Pi is affordable computing for learning. That's pointless if the system is very expensive.
the original pi launched in 2012 for like $35 I think<p>the pi5 1GB model is now $45, so with inflation etc that's not too bad considering the feature set.<p>However, getting your hands on a 1GB model these days is practically impossible unless you go used.
People are going to have to learn to program with less RAM....
Not really anymore, no.<p>The Foundation and the Trading Company have different goals, and the Foundation is not wedded to the Linux SBC Pi at all for this.<p>Physical computing education with Python is more than adequately served by the RP2040 and RP2350, and that is more or less where their focus is.<p>(Beyond that I think most of this is just geek whining, to be honest.)
a perfectly serviceable new rpi 3 is available for $39
So they should dissolve the organization because RAM is expensive?
It was their stated mission, yes.<p>'Our mission is to put high-performance, low-cost, general-purpose computing platforms in the hands of people and organisations all over the world,'<p>Hard to do that when you keep jacking the prices up.
Multiple theories have spawned regarding the usage, I strongly suspect that they are being used in drones for military purposes, hence the shortage at some point and the prices that are skyrocketing.
It will stop when the data center bubble bursts. Right now a small group of companies are borrowing huge amounts of money to corner the market in compute in order to use it for AI. But there's no evidence that real AI revenue (as opposed to more borrowed money) will grow fast enough for them to pay for that debt, or that profit margins will be sufficient to make it worth it over the window they need to start recouping. When that realization hits the lenders and investors and the capital spigot shuts off, prices will crash. I think it will be very similar to a precious metals run-up.
Honestly if you told me two years ago where hardware prices are now I wouldn't believe you lol. It's insane. Even DDR3 RAM is going bonkers.
I keep thinking that the AI gold rush is not an AI gold rush at all. It is a way to monopolize computing in 2 steps:<p>1) AI really does require a scaleup in compute power. In other words: you will be upgrading your hardware or use old software (at least if you want to run local or host your own saas)<p>2) the AI buildout means you can't buy the hardware, you can only rent it "in the cloud", because the AI buildout makes everything too expensive. Including memory, a nonnegotiable component of any computer or server<p>It only works, of course, if Amazon and Google and Meta and ... keep buying for another 2-3 years but that seems to be exactly what's happening.<p>Worst of all: monopolies used to at least require investment. But Amazon and Google aren't investing, really. They're still net profitable companies. It's almost insulting.
Classical monopoly (or duopoly) requires a moat. This is the moat they build. Everyone will just rent centralized intelligence - that's a promise to investors.
Yeah, but the key here is: the moat is not AI at all! The moat is they're buying all new computers (the key components). Every last one. So you can't get one, but you <i>will</i> be renting one, at seriously increased prices.
That's an interesting take. I had a similar thought about safety and how AI providers propagate that using cloud options is safer because hosting a server is open to attack vectors, and who would manage that best if not the big providers themselves.<p>The fact that Hugging Face was attacked not by a small amount of compute but such a vast amount of computation. It was only possible because its already so centralized by Open AI.<p>It feels a bit like cyberpunk where only the big companies in reality will have the resource to pull of such an attack.
As a 53 year old, I've been starting to feel like there's a very real chance I will never buy another brand new computer (for personal use), phone or gaming console in my lifetime, which would be very surprising if you told this to me ~2 years ago.<p>If my computer fails, I have plenty of old components from older systems that I can swap in. I also have quite a few old phones (my primary job over the past decade has been Android development, so I have older test devices that still function fine for my purposes). And consoles are just very optional (and way more costly than I am willing to pay) when they start costing $1500+.<p>Overall there are some positives from this, I'll be responsible for less e-waste. This is something I always tried to be cognizant of in the first place, but the economics will really force my hand even more.<p>Of course, things aren't all that great considering we got into this situation due to technology running in large datacenters running on lots of dirty power like methane turbines.
If you just want a computer, an Ayn Thor is +$90. It comes with 1TB of UFS 3.1 storage, not one but two fantastic OLED screens, nice joysticks, speakers, and it's much much much faster.<p>And it runs a fantastic CachyOS (a super tuned Arch) install, called ArmadaOS,
<a href="https://armadaos.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://armadaos.dev/</a><p>2026 has been pretty amazing, with the slow work upstreaming Qualcomm support really building. A bunch of really great chipsets have mainline support and actually work. The Thor is a bit behind SM8550, but SM8650 and SM8750 handhelds are also available (just a bit pricier, and non-dual screen yet).<p>Alas most phones don't have unlockable boot loaders. I'm anti-interested in the sad experience of Android, being unable to read my own files off my device. I really want to be able to read my chrome profile data, for reasons. Absolutely no go.
Actually, I am happy that mess has lead to people finally questioning if a calculator really needs a full browser backend and use 4GB.<p>I mean, sucks to be a buyer right now but as a developer I like where things are heading :( :)
Speaking of, it's been a while since I've seen a jeff geerling submission on HN front page.
Thankfully greedy Raspberry PI locked down memory upgrades, so nobody can save money by soldering off market chips.
Raspberry Pi enshittified ages ago. If you want an SBC there are better ones.
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