I didn’t watch the video, and I only found out about the blog post through Lemmy.

IMO the blog and video seem a little click-baity. Yes, he technically does acknowledge (in the video, not the blog) that older Pi models are still being produced, but saying the SBC market is dying is crazy. How many projects really need the specs of a Pi 5 in that form factor? If you need that performance, you probably have space for something a little bigger.

Here’s the author’s own tl;dr:

But if you’d like the tl;dr:

Unless the DRAM pricing situation changes radically, I think the hobbyist SBC market is dying—or at least on life support. And I don’t just mean Raspberry Pis, but all SBC vendors. LPDDR chips now account for the majority of board cost from the vendors I’ve checked with.

Raspberry Pi would have been fine if they stopped at the Pi 3. I’m not saying they shouldn’t have made the 4, or even 5… but the Pi 3 and Zero 2 are (IMO) their best products in terms of price-to-value. The SBC market is fine.

“Buried in the video” isn’t the same as “talked about in the blog.”

Which blog? If you mean the OP, could you quote the section you’re talking about? I don’t see any mention of Pi models besides the 4 and 5.

The thing that these complaints about RPi pricing always seems to miss is that most Pi models are still manufactured and supported. Most projects don’t need a Pi 5 with 16GB of RAM, even a Pi Zero 2 (under $20) is overkill for a lot of projects.

Are you aware that RFK is a big supporter of chiropractors? If anyone is spouting RFKs bullshit, it’s you.

Clearly.

What’s next, my drug dealer will start checking IDs? /s

They’re going to put age verification on pirating too!?

“completely degrading” - sounds like an oxymoron… “degraded” means it’s partially functioning, not completely working but not completely broken either.

Some of them might know how to use a torrent client though.

Weird Al’s career was built on this. He asked the original artists for permission, but that was out of respect, not because he had to.

It’s fine until it’s not… The problem is you can’t really predict when it will fail.

Just make sure you back them up. Bit rot is real.

OK, that’s embarrassing… but my point still stands.

Gotta go back farther than the 80s to find a time when business school people weren’t in charge. A LOT farther.

Source?

People should really look into growing the less common varieties at home. You can get supplies and spores or cultures from reputable companies so you don’t have to worry about identifying them yourself. You can’t grow all varieties easily at home, but you can grow more than you can buy at the store.

The same way Epstein was able to get a plea deal that gave him immunity to federal charges back in 2006. Everyone involved is extremely well-connected.

Even things like HDDs that don’t become “obsolete” in 18-24 months get sold with plenty of life left (unplanned downtime is more expensive than new hardware), but obsolescence makes it happen even sooner.

Regardless of who owns it or what they do with it, those GPUs will get sold on the used market with plenty of life left. Older AI GPUs, networking equipment (eg 100GbE), SAS drives, etc have been easy to find on eBay and other sites for a long time, because data centers replace hardware long before it’s expected to fail.