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by eternityforest
800 days ago
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They seem to be obsessed with desktops, and ultra high performance homelab NASes. They could have just use any old less powerful chip, like, whatever has at least 3B performance is fine, and used the money saved for stuff we actually need. Maybe ditch those awful micro HDMIs, it's kind of a nasty connector and USB C exists. Onboard lithium charging is a few cents. Better yet, onboard LTO charging, but it seems nobody does that yet. Why just stop at an RTC battery when you could have a few minutes of real backup power to help stop SD corruption? While you're at it, add an onboard I2C FRAM or battery backed SRAM. Instead of NVMe why not hire a few devs to go around fixing stuff that can't run well from the SD card? |
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I don't know how you reach that conclusion; the network connectivity of pi's suck (especially pi5) and out of the box they do not support any traditional storage except for a couple of external usb drives.
The use as a low cost desktop is a primary mission statement of theirs, so I don't really read that part as a criticism though. I think it's probably the only thing it really does well.
Agree on your other points though. Other vendors have made lots of headway in the SBC markets in the years that Pi hasn't been able to ship product. I'm sorry in a way that they have not achieved their lofty goals, but in another way I'm not sorry because they really have been fucking it up bad for the last few years.