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  • Price went up along with the hardware power though. RPi 1 had 700 Mhz and 512 MB of ram, versus rpi5 at 2.4 Ghz quad core modern arm, 800 MHz GPU, and from 1 to 16 GB of ram lol.

    It went from “oh cool I can run a small web server easy! A full Linux computer can fit in my pocket and I can bring it anywhere!” to basically gaming laptop specs of that early era.

    You can basically get a pi zero 2w for less today than the rpi 1, and it’s smaller and more powerful than the rpi1. I would say the price is damn reasonable.

    And the microcontroller options these days… You can get a TON for cheap.






  • I don’t think that one way or another someone loses a job with all things AI.

    That’s the lie the grifters are trying to sell. “Look we’re gonna automate workers, you need to invest in the next industrial age, stop hiring humans”.

    The fear is selling AI like hotcakes more than the AI is producing.

    And I’m hardly saying AI is worthless. It isn’t. I use it on a daily basis for my day job. But it’s not replacing workers just like Google search didn’t really replace workers, the same way wikipedia didn’t either. It just made things more easy to do quickly sometimes, and sped up information search and access.

    I think people unfairly call it a “worse Google search” when it’s a very different sort of tool, but very similar to the situation before and after Google and Wikipedia came out. It has its place but it’s not everywhere, and it’s not going to make workers redundant as much as that it’s selling point. I used to say maybe customer service, but even then it’s layer zero for dumbass questions and shouldn’t have any sort of trust to fuck with accounts.