There era of Pi shortages is quickly coming to an end.
  •  ShortN0te   ( @ShortN0te@lemmy.ml ) 
    38•1 year ago

    The 3B+ was probably the high of the raspberry pi. It is still pretty much unrivaled in terms of idle power consumption and energy efficiency (or at least i have not seen any other SBC that got below 0.5 Watts on idle) on the consumer market.

    But i have trouble investing further into them.

    1. They do not post any update guides for newer Debian releases and basically only support new deployments.
    2. It looks like they are abandoning their older products. vcgencmd for example is still broken on the 3B+. Since they “fixed” it for the 4B. See https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1224
    •  EmilieEvans   ( @EmilieEvans@lemmy.ml ) 
      15•1 year ago

      I agree that the 3B+ was the best Pi but for other reasons:

      • The Pi 3B+ had the perfect balance between performance and price with the performance being good enough at the time.
      • Design flaws at launch. Remember the Pi4 CC1 & CC2? POE getting pulled from the market?
      • Pi5: 5V 5A USB-C??? There is now 45W USB-PD (@15V) that would be compatible with generic PSUs but they went proprietary with 5A@5V.
      • They put big customers first and let everybody else starve during the shortage. This forced me to alternatives and I have to say they work just as good and cost less.
      • Jacking up retail prices: Even Intel x86 is now cheaper than a Raspberry Pi.
      •  ShortN0te   ( @ShortN0te@lemmy.ml ) 
        4•1 year ago
        • Pi5: 5V 5A USB-C??? There is now 45W USB-PD (@15V) that would be compatible with generic PSUs but they went proprietary with 5A@5V.

        Was not even thinking about that. Implementing USB-PD is so easy these days. Basically just putting a chip there who handles the PD and then a step down(or whatever) converter which they already have anyway. (See ebay USB PD trigger for implementations)

        That is so dump.

        Talking about hardware flaws, i think they even fucked up the USB-C implementation on the PI 4. They put the resistor on the wrong pins or somthing. Dont remeber exactly.

  •  haui   ( @haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ) 
    35•1 year ago

    I think pi is on the road to mainstream. Probably time to shift to an open source hardware competitor to boost it. Not saying pi is bad, I have one and its great. Those like me who love tinkering should consider going the extra mile and „radicalize“ themselves to open hardware. The project I hear the most of is Banana-PI. https://www.banana-pi.org