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[–] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The entire point of them was to be a cheap, open, educational computer for kids. Even the hobbyist/homelab use-case lost the plot, let alone the commercial bullshit they're targeting these days!

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 child)

    honestly I would argue that is the same plot(or at least overlapping). Low end systems would be an entry level use case for sysadmin and network design. that's how I got started, I had an RPI that I used as a DNS, file backup and a chat bot I ran, learned a lot from the experience. But I can see how it could be taken into the commercial field as well.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    I'll admit that being a cheap way for adults to learn is plot-adjacent. But at its core, Raspberry Pi was intended to be the spiritual successor of stuff like the BBC Micro, Alan Kay's KiddieComp/Dynabook, and OLPC.

    (The shared purpose and British heritage of the BBC Micro is part of why the Raspberry Pi people picked ARM instead of x86, by the way.)

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