3 monthsDRAM pricing is killing every single market. That’s what happens when we have a fully digitized, centralized market.
- 3 months
It’s killing everything that relies on having a computer inside or in-use. Say goodbye to ‘smart’ products, expanding any kind of business, cars, etc. Everything relies on some kind of DRAM these days.
- corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish3 months
Nah. The vendors will kill their ecosystems earlier and all the established internet-of-trash will be e-waste quicker. We’re still using a portal-TV unit and loving it, for example, but so many other products brought out during the sudden rush will be killed while still on umbilical .
- vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish3 months
Pretty of “smart” things could work with a few MCs with only builtin memory.
It’s just that 10 years ago people were complaining how nobody pays for making optimized nice things, using a computer few thousand times more powerful than needed for a job.
Well, now this may change, it’s again profitable to optimize. Or perhaps not yet.
Economic reality always changes. Tools, means, environments, markets, populations, politics, knowledge, and even goals.
So I don’t think it’s killing anything. Some producers will start optimizing. Some will cut on “smart” features nobody needs. Some will raise prices. As it always happens. Then some solutions will work and some not.
- Tm12@lemmy.caEnglish3 months
Glad it doesn’t have a timing belt. I heard those get expensive around 100-120 klicks.
- billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
I’m pretty sure these companies are paying attention to RAM and CPU costs and second guessing the value in adding them to these appliances. I don’t need a source. It’s common sense.
While it may be common sense, I could also see “hey just jack up the price, we need the data points for advertising/data brokers”
- kunaltyagi@programming.devEnglish3 months
It’s sustainable as long as the suckers keep buying and paying
- kunaltyagi@programming.devEnglish3 months
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
- pr06lefs@lemmy.mlEnglish3 months
lucky for me I have a pile of SBCs from uncompleted projects. and no, do not climb in my window looking for them
- 8oow3291d@feddit.dkEnglish3 months
Please tell us where your window is - how can we avoid climbing through your window, if we don’t know which window we are not supposed to climb through.
- pr06lefs@lemmy.mlEnglish3 months
my window(s) can be found at my residence: 1060 W Addison St, Chicago, IL 60613
- Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 months
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.
- InnerScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
The thing that these complaints about RPi pricing complaints always seems to miss is that that was talked about in the blog.
- Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 months
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.
- InnerScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
In the embedded video he talks about it from 4:40-5, then talks about microcontrollers and mentions used hardware (though says it’s also affected by price hike).
- Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 months
“Buried in the video” isn’t the same as “talked about in the blog.”
- InnerScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
Well, normally I’d agree but in this case I’d guess that more people have watched the video than read the blog. That’s the order in which I stumbled on it too.
Edit: Also:
I’m working more with older SBCs and microcontrollers now, and I think that’s the direction many in the hobbyist space are going.
- Ajen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 months
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.
Yeah I see a lot of projects where people are trying to use Pi’s for things better served by an x86 box with a low power CPU or similar.
- ChetManly@lemmy.worldEnglish3 months
at this rate, im not going to be able to run doom on my new coffee maker
