Raspberry Pis Found in Abandoned Spin Scooters in Seattle
www.tomshardware.com
Where was this knowledge when the Pi supply was low?

Title says most of it. Spin electric scooters exited the Seattle market and abandoned their scooters all over the city and apparently they have a pi 4 in them!

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    873·
    11 months ago

    Well, they sure as fuck didn’t go to the hobbyist market, we’ve been getting fucked by the rPi foundation for 3 years now.

    • Godort@lemm.eeEnglish
      56·
      11 months ago

      I mean, the cold reality is that they developed and released a perfect piece of hardware for industrial automation and sold it for pennies in comparison to other industrial computer boards.

      Industry will always have deeper pockets than hobbyists.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        47·
        11 months ago

        It’s far from industrial quality, but it still is getting used there. There’s a reason it’s a fraction of the cost of a proper PLC.

        • Godort@lemm.eeEnglish
          23·
          11 months ago

          Yep, exactly.

          If you can buy 10 Pis for the cost of one real PLC, and the only downtime you have if it fails is the time to swap the board and boot the machine back up it’s a no-brainer solution.

      • ashok36@lemmy.world
        English
        244·
        11 months ago

        It’s not just that. If the Pi Foundation has to make a choice between fulfilling an order for 100 pis for a company so that the company can keep making products and meeting payroll vs. 100 hobbyists that want to make their own one-off project, which is the more moral use of resources?

        Yeah, those companies should probably not have chosen a pi board to power their products but that’s only noticeable in hindsight.

          • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            It’s amazing to me that there isn’t anything comparable to a fanlinc or keypad linc. RIP in peace insteon

      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        72·
        11 months ago

        They also bent over backwards to help industrial buyers get them while flat out refusing to help content creators and Devs of open source projects that use the pi - it was really disappointing tbh

        Still love them though but not as much as I used to.

    • ludwig@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      11 months ago

      Well, everyone wanting to buy anything with a proccessor in it, has been getting fucking these last 3 years