Raspberry Pi launches its IPO

Sooner or later capitalism ruins everything.

And so begins "Line must go up" and the inevitable enshittification .

I'm willing to bet they'll start adding telemetry features in RPiOS for "quality purposes" a few years from now.

AI nonsense privacy disrespecting "feature" coming next week

Yeah, expect nothing more than enshitification. That way, if they don't enshitify like every company does, then we'll be pleasantly surprised.

Tech companies as soon as they are publicly traded:

Let the enshitification begin!

They've crossed the event horizon of enshitification.

N100 mini PCs are where it's at these days anyways. Unless you need the GPIO pins or are running some weird niche configuration, you're better off grabbing any N100, they're cheaper too.

I picked up a radxa zero last year and have been quite enjoying it. the hardware is better than a pi zero but costs less. same with a lot of other SBCs

but raspberry pi has a lot of inertia behind it, a lot of software and hardware support. people will keep using them, just like they keep using Ubuntu, even though it's a soulless corporate husk of what it one was

Raspberry Pi has been over priced for a long time. I'm not saying they've been a net positive or negative, but if you think this will make them a bad company then I think they've been pretty bad for a bit.

Everyone here seems pretty negative on this news. Any particular reason?

When a company takes on shareholders, whatever goals, mission, or ethos they had is erased. They now exist as a vehicle to make as much money as possible at literally any cost. That's it. Was nice while it lasted.

So, what are the alternatives?

Oh jees... welp it was great while it lasted.

Welp. Fuck Raspberry Pi. The entire stock market is one big scam.

Got my last Pi (RBP5) to try to set up a simple TV player under linux... unfortunately the performance was shit... had to go with Android and it's barely OK (bang for buck)

With the IPO I expect RBP are going to become more expensive and significantly enshitified... so that's that

Shit. Need to grab a couple spare Pis now while they’re still good.

Was hoping to set up a Pihole soon but now this, ugh! Any other alternatives???

So what do we use now that Raspi has gone to shit?

It could be neat if there was such a thing as like a FairPi (like FairPhone I mean, e.g. repairable). Arguably that would have almost defeated the main purpose of a $5 USD Pi, but sustainability is still cool, for those of us willing to pay 3x the price or whatever.

:(

Here's to hoping a solid sbc with gpio pins and solid software support shows up as a competitor to keep them in check?

fuck us

As long as Raspberry Pi doesn't start ripping off their customers, I will happily stay with them. Most other SBCs are made by Chinese companies, which I definitely won't buy. Hell no, I'm not supporting the Chinese economy.

Might be good, maybe we’ll get an OS competitor then. It’s harder for hardware, but not impossible. An open source, fabless microcontroller built by a nonprofit, perhaps? A lot of universities have labs with the budget to allocate for this as part of a consortium

been slowly replacing the PLCs with PIs at my work.

I'm sorry but all of these doom and gloom comments are insufferable.

A. The raspberry pis that you have known and loved are all still around and, considering inflation, cheaper than ever. If you're complaining about prices, stop buying from scalpers!

B. All this talk of enshittification and decline is purely and 100% speculative. You are acting like your catastrophic fears are a forgone conclusion when they're, at best, a guess.