Raspberry Pi Suffers First Ever Price Increase 72
For the first time, the price of a Raspberry Pi single-board computer is increasing and we have the global supply chain shortages to thank for it. PCMag reports: Eben Upton, chief executive of Raspberry Pi Trading, made the announcement today, but also made it clear the price increase is only temporary and only impacts one model of the Raspberry Pi 4. In February last year, the price of the Raspberry Pi 4 2GB dropped from $45 to $35 "permanently" and the 1GB model was discontinued. The 2GB model is reverting back to $45 and the 1GB model is making a comeback for industrial customers at its previous $35 price. The reason for this is one of supply chain challenges, with Upton confirming they will only manage to match 2020's shipments of around seven million units this year. The main shortages have been for the Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi 4 2GB.
We don't know how long the price increase will last, but Upton was upbeat: "The good news is that we've been able to hold the line on pricing for all but one of our products; that we expect to have enough 28nm silicon over the next twelve months to support both our existing Raspberry Pi 4 and Compute Module 4 customers, and customers migrating from Raspberry Pi 3B+; and that we see early signs that the supply chain situation is starting to ease."
We don't know how long the price increase will last, but Upton was upbeat: "The good news is that we've been able to hold the line on pricing for all but one of our products; that we expect to have enough 28nm silicon over the next twelve months to support both our existing Raspberry Pi 4 and Compute Module 4 customers, and customers migrating from Raspberry Pi 3B+; and that we see early signs that the supply chain situation is starting to ease."
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Re:*sigh* These aren't price increases (Score:4, Insightful)
If people weren't such fucking cry babies about losing "freedom", such as social distancing, masks, quarantines, lockdowns and vaccines, we'd have much more freedom by now. Tangible freedoms, like things being in supply and not running out.
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The vaccines we have are exceptionally good at doing all that.
go with Ivermectin instead of "vaccines" that fail to prevent infection, fail to prevent transmission.
Ivermectin does none of those, and does nothing for the actual symptoms either.
The vaccines definitely succeed at REDUCING infection and REDUCING transmission. Driving the R number down is all that's needed, not to bring it to zero.
We've been in a pandemic for over a year and a half. How are you still this fucking stupid
Re:*sigh* These aren't price increases (Score:5, Insightful)
has fuck-all to do with stopping economic catastrophe.
Yes it fucking does. It's a fucking system. They're all linked.
Vaccines means people get to go to work and go to events and buy stuff, which is what stops an economic catastrophe, rather than the periodic lockdowns when hospitalizations get out of hand..
If we had just let it rip as fast as possible THEN we would have been through it faster.
No. That's fucking bullshit. Letting it rip means letting people die when they didn't need to. People dying is bad (and yes, we have to remind you fucking psychopaths that it is a bad thing), and not just for the economy.
Letting it rip means letting the virus develop more strains that are more infectious and affect a wider range of people. Delta is not an "old people problem".
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Yep, no strain will target idiots, but as it turns out that's not necessary; the vaccine makes a big enough difference that the vaccine avoiders are still at a much higher risk.
On the other hand, people in poorer nations are still begging while we have doses expiring and going into the trash, we really are the ultimate shitlords
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Vaxxed people are not dying as much as unvaxxed people. That's still a fact.
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Well done Slashdot, you bunch of cunts.
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I didn't mod it, but likely this alone would be enough to earn it Troll from me:
Please, just go kill yourself. You've shown yourself to be stupid beyond repair.
Your inability to talk with others without resorting to attacks like that makes you a troll, nothing else is needed.
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resorting to attacks like that makes you a troll
Trolling is about saying something to get a reaction. Not about being mean.
Learn the difference, retard.
Facts are facts. Facts don't care about your feelings. It shows what hypocrites your types are when you say "facts don't care about feelings", but get all offended when someone with the facts don't care about your feelings.
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The goal is not to wipe out covid-19. The goal is to get out of the pandemic when thousands are daying each day and thousands more are being hospitalized. Is yours the same old tired sociopathic solution to just let everyone go out and hug so that everyone gets sick and dies all at once since the only ones dying are the weak, infirm, disabled, etc? Maybe you forgot, but we had enough deaths all at once that refirigerator trucks were being used for overflow at morgues, some hospitals are turning away non-
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Tangible freedoms, like things being in supply and not running out.
So frictionless mass consumption is a good thing?
I mean, isn't this pretty much The Dream? Car companies shutting down, shelves emptying and prices increasing; saving the environment by preventing consumption? All my life I've been told I'm wrecking the planet with my consumption. Now everything costs too much and everyone is buying less and somehow that's a problem too?
You'd think people would be celebrating what is happening. Instead chuckleheads like you chime in with "consumption == freedom"!!11
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So wtf do you want?
I love how you've assumed that the OP is personally responsible for having told you everything you don't like to hear and then blamed them for the inconsistencies. You do realise that The Evil Atheist is not in fact the literal embodiment of everything that triggers you?
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This is the sort of deceptive, deliberate misunderstanding that's fueling the bad faith.
Show of hands, how many people think we're getting the civil rights back that were taken during the pandemic? How many thought we'd be getting our freedoms back after the war on terror was over?
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100% agreed about the "war on terror." You don't see very many Senators scrambling to repeat the Patriot Act now that we withdrew from Iraq and Afghanistan. But what civil right was taken away during the pandemic?
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But what civil right was taken away during the pandemic?
For starters, the first amendment. Specifically these parts of it.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
and
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble
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Supreme court has already upheld quarantine laws, decades ago. This is nothing new. Guess what, all those armed soldiers in the streets forbidding college students from protesting the Vietnam war were infringing rights too, yet so many of the anti-government types now saw nothing wrong with those rights being infringed.
Your rights end at the line where they harm others.
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When? Where? How? By who?
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CORRECTION: I typed "repeat" but meant "repeal" sorry!
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So which rights of yours have been infringed and which freedoms have you lost? I see idiots parroting words like COMMUNISM SOCIALISM when it comes down to being asked to wear a thin paper mask for the benefit of others. That or being upset that their "at will" employment state is suddenly coming back to bite them in the ass because their employer is requiring a vaccine. Hey you voted for that right for employers to fire anyone for any reason. Enjoy!
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Replied to another in thread, but figured you deserve the same answer to the same question.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/... [slashdot.org]
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You really think its a theory? Venezuela did this and everything worked perfectly.
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I'm with "youngone". At least they're not throwing the "slavery conspiracy" in our face anymore, right buddy!
Yeah sure, an entire government or should I say governments (plural) got together to enslave an entire race of people.. based on the color of their skin. And it all conveniently happened before video was invented.
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It's a Fox talking point. Same as people who yell about gain of function but don't have a clue what it is and have never said that phrase before in their entire lives.
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For a bunch of rugged individuals, your American conservatives sure are easy to lead around by the nose.
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It is currency devaluation. This "supply chain" thing is very convenient, to say the least
Tell me you never took Econ-101 without telling me you never took Econ-101.
It's cute that you were ashamed enough of this statement that you had to post it AC, but still thought it was worth saying anyway.
I'd still get another one (Score:3, Interesting)
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I've gotten several Pis as well, one as a media player (Kodi), another as a media server/nas, and a couple as ssh target boxes.
My only complaint with them is how the SD Cards tend to just wear out and the system fails, even with high-quality cards.
Another option I've been using lately for cheap small computers are old Chromeboxes like the Asus CN60. Because they no longer get Chrome updates, you can get one for about $30 on eBay, then with the help of Mr. Chromebox (https://mrchromebox.tech/) you can put a
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SD cards are the primary known failure point on Rasp Pi systems. These days you can also boot off a USB SSD or buy an expansion module that lets you use an NVMe SSD. Both options will significantly increase the longevity of your system and may even save money in the long run depending on how often you're burning through SD cards.
USB adapters (Score:2)
or buy an expansion module that lets you use an NVMe SSD.
I absolutely second that! I use adapters for the partition that the fileserver running on the Pi uses.
Except that mine are mSATA: that was the popular small format when I started using them. Of course by now the most popular standard is m2 NVMe.
Though if you think of it the data path of these is weird on a Raspberry Pi 4.
Broadcom SoC
to PCIe 1x lane
to USB3 PCIe controller
to USB3 connector
to adapter board
to NVMe USB3 controller (which is a PCIe format)
to PCIe 1x lane to m2 slot
to NVMe card.
You're needlessly c
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I would love to see an M.2 connector on a future RPi Zero, even if it's limited to SATA and 30/42mm length.
NVMe (Score:2)
I would love to see an M.2 connector on a future RPi Zero, even if it's limited to SATA
Given that even Pi4's SoC has a PCIe lane, and given how other constructors deal with it,
you're way more likely to find an NVMe m2 connector than a mSATA one, as you already have PCIe lanes instead of needing to add yet another mSATA controller somewhere.
an M.2 connector {...} and 30/42mm length.
Given the small form factor of the Pis an m.2 slot would have been possible...
until you pay attention to how aggressively they are priced (the entry-level of each generation of B boards is always around 35 bucks. Meanwhile Rochip-based SBC that feature such
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I would be fine with a ribbon connector on the RPi Zero and having to buy an additional M.2 adapter, bonus points if that M.2 PCB can be cleanly broken off at the different lengths of NVME drives to save space.
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If the device is a media player then why does the OS even need write capability to the disk?
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I suspect it's writing configuration info (which doesn't change often) and also markers for what media has played or not, locations for partially played media (e.g. resume), thumbnails, etc.
I don't see any evidence that Kodi writes this to the media server's file system, so it must be writing to the sdcard.
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I also just learned that this exists, a JetDrive, which is SD module that uses the same storage as an SSD:
https://www.transcend-info.com... [transcend-info.com]
Which might also be a good alternative, if you can find one.
Re:I'd still get another one (Score:4, Informative)
That's because the OS is constantly writing to the disk, and SD cards aren't optimized for the kind of writing that a general purpose OS does.
There are two solutions - use an industrial rated SD card - these cards are generally aimed towards embedded uses and have special commands that can actually get at the lifespan.
The cheaper solution is Raspbian actually has a configuration option to enable overlay filesystem, where the SD card can be mounted read-only and writes are captured by the Linux overlay filesystem into a RAM disk. The downside to this is well, all changes are temporary - if you need to make more permanent changes you need to disable the overlay, make your changes, and then re-enable the overlay (rebooting each time - enabling/disabling require a reboot).
Or some enterprising people actually methodically cataloged each program and how it writes to the SD card so you can disable or move the files it writes to a RAM disk.
SD card death is a super common problem because consumer cards are designed to handle relatively large media files and not small writes all the time.
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Be careful with industrial SD cards though, not all of them are designed for handling large amounts of writes. In fact most aren't - "industrial" usually just means that they have had a 100% test at the factory, instead of the 1% test that consumer cards get.
Other options (Score:3)
There are two solutions - use an industrial rated SD card - these cards are generally aimed towards embedded uses and have special commands that can actually get at the lifespan.
Alternatives are getting way oversized "endurance" variants.
- "Endurance" variants: (e.g. to be used in dashcams, etc.) are also variants geared toward more intense writing (they're designed for continuous writing after all!), but usually a bit cheaper as they target prosumers. Though they aren't as much designed for small writes as the industrial ones (usually it's large multi-GB-sized continuous video files), this is less a problem if you go for a log or cow filesystem (see below).
- Way over sized: the po
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Indeed. I once replaced a bunch of Atom boxes with Pis for running a point of sale solution; 32 total. I netbooted the pis so there we no SD cards. Disk images were stored on an NFS server backed by btrfs so when I cloned a disk image data wasn't actually duped. I'd mount the image and run a script mostly using m4 to replace system variables for each host, assign a serial number in ISC
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Who suffers? (Score:1)
I understand anthropomorphism and I even use it myself - but a product 'suffering'? I rather think it's the purchasers and would-be purchasers who are suffering.
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The "anthro" in "anthropomorphism" means human, and since literal suffering is not a state exclusive to humans, I think it would be more accurate to call it basic figurative language than anthropomorphism. Although all definitions of "suffer" are related to a negative feeling or condition, it's probably accurate to say that in it's most literal sense it means for an animal (such as a human) to feel pain, sorrow, or poor health. However, it's very common to use it figuratively, such as "that malware is causi
Before going political RTFA (Score:5, Interesting)
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All of that was in the summary, no need to read the article.
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Weren't the earlier models cheaper (when they were introduced)? If so, the price of Rpi has been going up with new model releases. Yes, the new models are more powerful, but sometimes it just means that the load is 0.1 instead of 0.3.
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They still make the A+ and B+ for a similar price to the original.
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No please, people should go political. It's important that we identify idiots who think politics are behind everything so we can completely ignore them going forward.
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Isn't the Pi foundation based in the UK anyhow?
SAD! (Score:1)
-- Sent from Dear Leader.
Could be worse (Score:3)
I love the way these guys handle business! (Score:1)