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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 01:21:15 JST 翠星石

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   • Steve Lord
   @tyil @stevelord >#RaspberryPi has lost its vision of cheap hobby machines behind a while ago,
   As far as I can tell, there was no such vision - rather some ex-Broadcom employees saw a chance to make a profit from an emerging market demand for SBC's coinciding with very cheap SBC manufacturing available (at scale), so they produced an extremely proprietary SBC very cheaply and sold such for a high markup.
   
   Currently raspberry Pi's are proprietary broadcom garbage, controlled by proprietary software running on the GPU (which utilizes ThreadX) - here's hoping the LibrePi project fixes that.
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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 01:21:17 JST tyil

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     • Steve Lord

     @stevelord@bladerunner.social #RaspberryPi has lost its vision of cheap hobby machines behind a while ago, but this is surely going to make it even worse. Such a shame.

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     Steve Lord (stevelord@bladerunner.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 01:21:18 JST Steve Lord

     Today in #enshittification the charitable #raspberrypi foundation is taking it's for-profit company to IPO: https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/market-news/expected-intention-to-float/16470316