I was under the assumption that Raspberry Pi was a US based company, but I just found out they are European and almost all made in Wales.

It’s probably the most European computer you can buy, with a massive following of enthusiastic developers creating alternatives for all the cloud services we are trying to stop using.

This has confirmed my choice to try and replace the US based cloud services my family and I are currently using.

  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I lost a lot of love for Raspberry Pi over the years, I used to be a huge advocate, I lost faith around the time of the chip shortage when they abandoned hobbyists for commercial customers.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Yeah, same here. It’s unfortunate that even with Raspberry Pi’s fall from grace, it remains the choice because all the other SBCs suck even worse. I’d love for some entity like Pine64 to step up, but while they make noises about being open source the support and follow-through and community just isn’t there compared to Raspberry Pi.

      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Radxa, lattepanda and orangepi all seem to make pretty interesting boards fwiw, but as you say everything seems to have its issues and I’ve enough projects to be getting on with without learning a new platform. I’ve a couple of projects that will likely demand a pi in the end - but again it’s mostly down to the software/hardware that’s standardized round the pi rather than the specific features of the pi itself.