The purpose of the Pi is affordable computing for learning. That's pointless if the system is very expensive.

People are going to have to learn to program with less RAM....

one could argue America is forcing China to learn how to program better via it's GPU sanctions.

Guffaw, as if people are "learning to program" anymore.

But the USA is definitely forcing Deepseek to learn how to write leaner code! Bring it on.

	▲	cyanydeez an hour ago \| parent [-]
		well, of course people are still "learning to program" it's just everyone gets to be sitting in the chair of an academic or the start up chair, or whatever. Since they're still improving models, they still are learning how to program, it's just a meta game now, not the specific intricacies.

djhworld 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

the original pi launched in 2012 for like $35 I think

the pi5 1GB model is now $45, so with inflation etc that's not too bad considering the feature set.

However, getting your hands on a 1GB model these days is practically impossible unless you go used.

dofm 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not really anymore, no.

The Foundation and the Trading Company have different goals, and the Foundation is not wedded to the Linux SBC Pi at all for this.

Physical computing education with Python is more than adequately served by the RP2040 and RP2350, and that is more or less where their focus is.

(Beyond that I think most of this is just geek whining, to be honest.)

Palomides 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

a perfectly serviceable new rpi 3 is available for $39

paxy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So they should dissolve the organization because RAM is expensive?