DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market
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Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not a joke. I published a video going over the state of the hobbyist 'high end SBC' market (4/8/16 GB models in the current generation), which I'll embed below: But if you'd like the tl;dr:
        • kunaltyagi@programming.devEnglish
          21·
          24 days ago

          Loans in form of credit. A vast proportion of adults in developed nations are in personal debt, ignore home, education and car loans

          People have not been taught how to be adults, manage a budget and they end up trading their future financial security for momentary gains