Makes me extra angry that I got one the year it first released as an xmas gift from my parents… then a week later when i went looking for it my wife threw it out because she assumed all the bags from the gifts were empty… I never got a new one and still bitter about that one.
I need money so maybe I should look into selling all of mind now.
Probably due to the shit AI. Seriously, AI is ruining society.
YA THINK??
Sorry… sorry. We’re all a little edgy over this.
I switched to ESP32 chips for my hobbies and then the damn Europeans imposed tariffs on AliExpress &co and now even those cost double now.
Seriously, these EU tariffs on imported goods piss me off so fucking much. I like some EU things (GDPR, etc), but then they also make decisions that are so fucking bad. We were already paying VAT. The new taxes basically kill hobbies for me. It is just a pro drop-shipping business BS by business majors tax.
I wanted to get one of these for a server…
Ended up getting an N100 Chinese mini PC with 16GB RAM, 512GB storage, just ready to go… it consumes…3.6W - 4.1W on idle running Ubuntu Server. I’m 100% satisfied.
Still I had to pay like 260€ these mini PC were a lot cheaper before.
This is for 16GB. 1G is $45, 2G is $77.
My 1G pi three is still working fine.
In other words, 1G of RAM accounts for 32$?
Okay that’s good to know. Honestly I always considered a Pi a single use, light weight device that just happens to run common ARM64. When they went for 8/16GB of RAM it felt like they were trying to turn them into mini general purpose computers.
And they do work like great general purpose computers. They have no moving parts, no fan and linux. So they are robust as fuck. Get the one that is coming in its own keyboard and you have everything you need.
Title is kinda misleading then. The comments prove it.
I thought the Pi 5 was too expensive when it came out. This is just ridiculous. For most uses, a used PC, phone or tablet would be a much better choice. The only Pi I would even consider using is the Zero 2W, but they’ve been out of stock all year.
Its not actually that crazy given this is for the 16gb model. Ram is fucked at the moment 🤷♂️
Well needing 16GB might be the crazy part then.
I don’t get how they can justify this. I can get a proper mini PC with 16GB RAM and an 500GB NVME SSD for less than that.
I don’t know but this guy seems to understand it
So what I’m gathering is I should set aside my wife’s broken pixel phone to use as a low power server.
I mean generally, how much computational power is lying around in discarded smart phones?
How much I reached potential is there in some sort of clustering solution to distribute the load such that 2-6 smartphones can get some real work done?
Only problem with that is the spicy battery pillow.
Just remove the battery?
It’s a bit trickier than that. They won’t run from USB power alone. The battery has to be replaced with a battery eliminator circuit.
If the phone is new enough, it may have an option to prevent the battery from fully charging. If it does, you can enable that and leave the battery in until it’s completely worn out. That way you have a built in UPS.
Boards with single memory chips are hit the hardest. When you increase the memory you have to go with a much denser individual chip and the denser the chip the more expensive it is.
At that price, you might as well buy an Intel NUC Mini PC. You’d get more performance at a similar price, and it’s x86 instead of ARM.
You can install armbian on cheap android tv boxes. Essentially the same thing.
I bought a fucking laptop with 16gb of ram and a touchscreen for barely more than that in 2015
Good investment opportunity
