Criminal gangs buying up lower cost 1GB #RaspberryPi5 boards and using slave labor to desolder one resistor and resoldering it 3 positions above, then reselling them on EBay.
Look I’d love to get a new #RaspberryPi5 - I love playing with this sort of tech. I have a few older ones kicking around still too! But I won’t be buying one because I don’t like to support a company that belittles people for taking an ethical stance against hiring known surveillance police to help support that particular market. It was dismissive, exclusionary, and pushing minority groups out of making spaces. And they still don’t think they’ve done anything wrong.
If your first thought when you hear that a company that makes computers and writes curricula that trains kids how to use computers proudly hired a spy cop and gave the middle finger to those who raised ethical concerns is to defend the company and the spy cop in question, you should take a moment, stop what you’re doing, and give yourself a firm slap in the face.
It won’t change anything but it’ll make me feel better at least.
@nevali I continue to want to run off grid, silent. Idle (or low-load) consumption and thus overall efficiency no longer seem to be a design consideration or published spec, sadly. #raspberrypi#raspberrypi5#RPi5
With the #RaspberryPi5 releasing, don't forget how they boasted about hiring an ex surveillance cop, then ridiculed the people who criticized them for it.
Also remember how you weren't able to buy a Pi for months because they prioritized supplying their business customers.
I'm not buying #RaspberryPi products any longer, nor do I recommend them to my friends and clients. The Pi Foundation has become seriously out of touch.
IMHO The best thing about the new #RaspberryPi5 is the connector for the UART that is the exact connector the #raspberrypi debug probe needs. It's really handy for console messages and serial access
The Raspberry Pi 5 is 2.5x faster than the Pi 4 (sometimes more!), and I have the FULL rundown — let me walk you through it in this thread. #RaspberryPi#Pi5
Happy New #RaspberryPi5 Day! It's been four years in the making, but the successor to the Raspberry Pi 4 is here - and it's a beast. The new BCM2712 chip is faster, it's got full-bandwidth USB 3.0 ports, PCI Express at one end, dual-camera support, and there's even a real-time clock.
How much faster, you ask? Well, depends on your workload: synthetic benchmarks show a tripling of performance over the Raspberry Pi 4, while real-world workloads are anything from slightly under twice as fast to more than three times as fast. Raw graphics grunt is quadrupled, and new AES instructions mean cryptography is an order of magnitude faster.