| Or: Maybe it's OK that there's Raspberry Pis living in drawers, disused. Maybe this keeps volume up, which fills the coffers that are needed to fund sustained development. Perhaps they'd cost even more if the ones sitting in drawers were never purchased at all. And, I mean... I'm not here optimize anyone else's money. It's theirs, and they can spend it however they want. As a specific example: Back before the literal-shortages several years ago, I'd see people buying 8GB Pi4s to run OpenWRT or Klipper. "I want the very best," they'd proclaim. "I don't want any bottlenecks." I'd try to steer them to what I felt was a more-efficient path. "Yeah, but OpenWRT uses less than a hundred megs of RAM. And Klipper is pretty light, too -- that's kind of the whole point of this kind of software. The smallest [2GB] version is already complete and utter overkill for these purposes now, and will remain so in any future it is likely to ever see." And what I found, over and over again, was that these folks didn't reason themselves into this position to begin with, and that they thus couldn't be reasoned out of it. So I stopped trying to change their ways, and started accepting it instead. I'm happier this way. |