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.
I recently repurposed one of my old Pis to run LibreElec for me. It barely chugs along, and there are many issues. Thought I might buy a new one, not realising just how much they cost now. It’s frankly absurd.
I could buy a much more capable NUC second hand for less.
I remember when being double the msrp of rpi4 was crazy…
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.
What the fuck.
They think they’re Apple or something!?
I could get a used office desktop, and its monitor for less than this, and it’d be more usable.
Raspbery PI done lost its mind.
I cant imagine buying a Raspberry Pi anytime within the past 5 years, let alone the past 2… If you don’t need your money that badly, give me a shout, I’ll put it to better use.
Ouch, so glad I bought one a year ago
Might as well just pickup a mini pc.
A mini PC and an Arduino is the ticket.
I’ve also had good luck with Orange PIs. Just checked pricing and they’ve gone up but not pushing anywhere near $400. I know Banana PIs and a few others are out there but I am less familiar with those.
Definitely going to check out Orange (and Banana) Pis. Thanks!
Mini pc costs a grand+
I bought this one to run my Home Assistant. $329 Canadian.
Nah, just a used one off eBay. Just now, I saw some i7 8700s w/32GB for <100$.
It will use more power, but it’s going to be a lot faster for most tasks.
I picked up a mini PC in July for 500 that I think goes for 600 today, 16GB ddr4 ram 1TB drive, 25 watt, integrated video card with 3GB, very quiet. It runs way more retro games than my pi3, also using it for a media PC and some light DAW & development work with no problems.
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.
F
jesus. I have only 4ram.
nextcloud, jellyfino, navidrome, qbitorrent and its getting tight…
You need at least 5 ram
Shhhh, you’ll wake up Clammy Sammy.
Og launched at 35. Inflation be nuts
This one was never $35. The higher compute power and 16GB onboard RAM had the base price at $120 at launch.
This isn’t inflation, it’s billionaire-flation.
OG only had 1G. This one at 1G is only $45.
Probably due to the shit AI. Seriously, AI is ruining society.
Because most AI don’t really care about ethics
YA THINK??
Sorry… sorry. We’re all a little edgy over this.
I bought a Dell Optiplex at Goodwill for $20 that could probably run circles around that thing.
And likely not that much more power usage
It is after my upgrades.
I’m sure a lot more capable as well though.
Yes. I upgraded the CPU to an i7-4790 and I upgraded the RAM to 16 GB. I also got some pcie sata cards and added a bunch of HDD’s. The HDD’s are mostly lower capacity ones I had laying around but it’s cool. I installed Cachy OS on it and even got Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen running on it. I don’t have room for a dedicated GPU so modern games are out of the question. It was a fun project.
Look for GPU enclosures, you can get them cheap used now.
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.
Seriously, these EU tariffs on imported goods piss me off so fucking much. I like some EU things (GDPR, etc), but then they also make decisions that are so fucking bad. We were already paying VAT. The new taxes basically kill hobbies for me. It is just a pro drop-shipping business BS by business majors tax.
I agree that the cost increase is a bad thing, but something had to be done in general. Huge masses of wrongly declared packets (to save on import taxes) were flooding the EU market, disrupting local business. To prevent what happened with the german solar panel industry, which was gutted by chinese cheap manufacturing and non-existing help from the government, there had to be measures taken.
I agree, but make it something reasonable like 20% of the order and not +3€ for every tiny 1€ electronic component in my order.
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