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.

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.

$270 of the price is for the RAM.

I didn't believe it, i mean they were pricey as hell but this is taking the biscuit now 😞

We went from cheap hobby computer to luxury item with emotional damage real quick 💀

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...

I read a headline yesterday that said the rpi price increase was "eye watering". I believe that's called journalistic understatement.

wtf is even happening

End stage capitalism.

It'll get lots worse before it gets better.

No more cheap portable control stations for DIY projects for now. 😢

I miss when technology would get cheaper and better.

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 really should sell all the optiplexes I have instead of recycling them. I bet I could make some ok money.

Fuck me, I thought it was an exaggeration

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.

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.

Wow it has gotten that bad, and now price to performance is now shit.
Am curious if Orange Pi raised in Price too.

Good news is that micro controllers and used office PCs are still fairly affordable by comparison... for now.

They don't even want you building your own dinky little cyber deck

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"

No thanks, I will buy an used AI mini PC that can do the same.