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Raspberry Pi becomes a public company (www.theregister.com)
submitted 5 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Guess I should stock up while I can huh?

I’ve been a RPI fan since the beginning and have used their boards for all sorts of projects and tinkering. But it’s hard not to feel like it’s losing sight of what made it attractive in the first place: low power and low priced computing. It had its charm in buying a Pi Zero and just chucking emulators on it and handing them out to folks who might want to have a go.

But with the more expensive, more powerful hardware you just can’t really use them for things like that anymore. Just too expensive and too much oomph for the use case.

We’ll see if the company finds its way. But this usually isn’t a good sign…

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Remember today when you reflect on what was stolen from us.

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Garbage. They started this in order to provide very poor people the means to program and create things.

[–] Stitch0815@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Friendship ended with raspberry pi Now Pine 64 is my new best friend

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Rockchip processors is where it's at these days. Every pi alternative runs an RK3566 or RK3568

For true open source it's gotta be RISCV instead of ARM. Bbut it might be too early days for that.

[–] Stitch0815@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I mean Pine64 produces RISCV boards

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Oh I didn't know that. I was familiar with Scifive for higher end RiscV stuff, and MilkV for the cheaper and midrange boards.

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

RIP

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was some kind of non-profit previously right? What happens with the money paid for the shares they floated?

[–] Veraxus@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think they’re playing the same game OpenAI is. Nonprofits can “own” for-profits.

No, it’s not rational or ethical or reasonable, but it’s a thing, because Capitalism gotta Capitalism.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nonprofits can “own” for-profits.

One of the saner reasons for this structure is that the non-profit owns the things the for-profit works on. If the for-profit goes under, all things are still owned by the non-profit, so some large tech company can't swoop in and yoink anything available.

This includes any and all data generated by the for-profit, which means your data is "safe".

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

The non-profit could sell the for-profit, or it would inherit the debt of the for-profit if it didn't bankrupt it.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

Goodnight, sweet prince.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, so much for that I guess

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Yeah its really too bad. I used to love the company but now I just don't see them making things for hobbies. Anyone know of some good alternatives? Ive heard good things about lepotato?

[–] bluGill@kbin.run 1 points 5 months ago

They were never about hobbies. We were a niche that they were happy to have, but they never cared. Origionally it was about education (which has a large overlap with hobbies so they served well).

[–] Spider89@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OrangePI

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I had one and returned it. The hardware was good but the software was total ass

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 5 months ago

The official ones are a mess, but depending on your needs, you can use armbian. It supports orange pi boards, and is a nice and up to date distro.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That's the biggest issue. Support.

Most of the success of the RPi is due to rasparian and community support.

[–] youRFate@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Lattepanda mu is apparently a very powerful alternative.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have been using Odroid boards for many years. I currently have 3 C4 boards and 1 older C1 board. My kids use them as their computer in their rooms. Hardkernel is the company behind the boards, they also provided the official Home assistant blue devices that came pre installed with HASS.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh! Great idea - kid's computer. I'll be stealing that for my next project. Thank you!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

looks at your name

Uh-oh. Guys. I think he's going to steal someones baby instead of making one himself....

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It was a fun run.

I hope someone else comes up with a similar product soon.

[–] slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I’m pretty sure there are a lot of similar boards out there

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

OrangePi comes to mind.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 months ago

Banana Pis are great