@empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
2026-09-21 22:37 UTC
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@Godort@lemmy.ca 2026-09-21 23:09
the measure is primarily intended to prevent third parties from buying lower-capacity boards, replacing their RAM with cheaper parts of uncertain origin and then reselling the modified hardware as a higher-capacity model. The company argues that such modified boards have not undergone its validation process and could subsequently generate support requests if unstable memory is blamed on the company. The solution to this decidedly rare problem is authorized resellers, not an arbitrary block on a very technically demanding upgrade. That’s assuming this is the actual problem though. If the problem is actually “We want to make more money by charging extra for ‘enthusiast models’” then this is the correct tactic to ensure that you aren’t undercut by cheap labor.
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@kaidenshi@lemmy.world 2026-09-22 01:24
They’ve completely lost the plot. Raspberry Pi was founded on the principle of hacking, education, and doing more with less. It’s their DNA, but now it’s clear all they give a shit about is money. They are corporate garbage now, like so many other organizations in the FOSS community that gave up freedom and openness for the Almighty dollar (or pound in this case). Eben Upton can suck my soldering iron.
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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-22 03:04
Radxa and orange pi are better anyway.
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@atkdef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-09-22 04:29
I’m not really familiar with this industry, but as far as I know, there are quite a few pi-named alternatives from China. Banana Pi, Orange Pi, Lichee Pi, and there are probably more. Unless there’s something only Raspberry Pi can offer, this looks suicide to me.
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@DigDoug@lemmy.world 2026-09-22 02:49
You’ll know it isn’t a genuine Raspberry Pi because it won’t cost $35… right…?
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@gigaqps@lemmy.world 2026-09-22 04:47
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@robomuffin79@lemmy.world 2026-09-22 05:49
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@SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2026-09-22 06:13
This makes sense. Hear me out. A CM5 is a device designed to be embedded into other devices. I believe most of their sales come from just that- companies that make other things, and build a CM5 into them rather than design their own control board. As you go up through the model tiers, the price increases faster than the added price of memory. IE, if the 2gb one is $20, and the difference between a 2gb memory chip and an 8gb memory chip is $10, the 8gb unit isn’t $30 it’s $60. You pay RPi a premium for the high end products. Desoldering RAM off a production PCB is something no hobbyist is going to bother with. BUT, a company buying 10,000 of these to build into their product MIGHT find it cost effective to setup a production line to do so. And they could probably resell the 2gb chips. Point being- while I don’t like this, and I don’t like the ideas it represents, I also understand why they are doing it. It’s not about us, the hobbyists. It’s about the manufacturers that build compute modules into their products.