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
      884·
      1 year 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
        55·
        1 year 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·
          1 year 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·
            1 year 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.worldEnglish
          234·
          1 year 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·
              1 year 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
          71·
          1 year 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·
        1 year ago

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