Raspberry Pi profit surges as AI boom lifts demand (opens in new tab)

(ft.com)

30 pointsconstantinum1mo ago11 comments

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Hardware is going to gert significantly more expensive and hard to come by. Really regretting selling several old desktops, laptops, old Pis.

mindcrime1mo ago

I remember reading a review of Neuromancer once, where people were making light of the thing with Linda Lee stealing Case's black-market RAM, on the basis that RAM is now a dirt-cheap commodity and not something that would hold great value.

My, how times have changed...

wao0uuno1mo ago

I didn't read the linked article because it's paywalled but I was able to find relevant information on multiple other websites. So RPi stock went up ~40% because of a twitter post saying RPis can run OpenClaw and are cheaper than Apple hardware? None of that makes any sense to me. Are people really that stupid?

illwrks1mo ago

Yes. Most people have close to zero understanding of tech, and are instead very heavily influenced by what they hear and see online, on social etc. They won’t think too deeply about the detail and therefore will make false assumptions.

Mr_Eri_Atlov1mo ago

The past decade has led to the scales falling from my eyes as I come to understand just how incredibly stupid and short-sighted people are.

Even worse, there is a direct correlation between the most stubborn people being the most short-sighted, as they refuse to change course no matter the cost.

dingdong20261mo ago

Stupid how? You can easily run OpenClaw on an RPi.

wao0uuno1mo ago

It won't be useful though. Raspberry Pi is too slow to run local AI models. Buying a second hand Optiplex would give you 10x the performance at the same price and that still wouldn't be enough to run a proper local AI model at decent speed. You kinda need a GPU for that.

mindcrime1mo ago

> Are people really that stupid?

Donald Trump is President.

RFK Jr. is Secretary of Health and Human Services

Linda McMahon is Secretary of Education

...

Do you really have any doubts about the limits of stupidity? :-(

d0mine1mo ago

There is a considerable overlap between people who believe that a reality tv personality has real power and those who believe that reality tv is unscripted.

timothyduong1mo ago

American. It’s pronounced Ameri-can.

bwoah1mo ago

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Lord_Zero1mo ago

Hardware is going to gert significantly more expensive and hard to come by. Really regretting selling several old desktops, laptops, old Pis.

mindcrime1mo ago

My, how times have changed...

wao0uuno1mo ago

illwrks1mo ago

Mr_Eri_Atlov1mo ago

The past decade has led to the scales falling from my eyes as I come to understand just how incredibly stupid and short-sighted people are.

Even worse, there is a direct correlation between the most stubborn people being the most short-sighted, as they refuse to change course no matter the cost.

dingdong20261mo ago

Stupid how? You can easily run OpenClaw on an RPi.

wao0uuno1mo ago

mindcrime1mo ago

> Are people really that stupid?

Donald Trump is President.

RFK Jr. is Secretary of Health and Human Services

Linda McMahon is Secretary of Education

...

Do you really have any doubts about the limits of stupidity? :-(

d0mine1mo ago

There is a considerable overlap between people who believe that a reality tv personality has real power and those who believe that reality tv is unscripted.

timothyduong1mo ago

American. It’s pronounced Ameri-can.

bwoah1mo ago

https://archive.is/T4Het

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse