Jeff Geerlinggeerlingguy@mastodon.social
Sep 21, 2026, 4:49 PMRaspberry Pi is locking down RAM upgrades in firmware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltofM26akZQ
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Sep 21, 2026, 5:01 PM@geerlingguy Warranty bit sure, but this is just a supply chain problem from RasPi's perspective. No invoice from an authorized reseller? No support.
What level of 'support' do they even offer. You're ostensibly supposed to hack on these. What's RaspPi's solution for warranty claims based on breakage caused by overvolting an I/O or whatever?
They been corpo shills from the very beginning. I'm kind of sad the maker community latched on to this Broadcom offshoot instead of TI-offshoot BeagleBoard, which seems to have a much more serious commitment to openness.
GanondalfWalruths@mastodon.socialSep 21, 2026, 6:06 PM@geerlingguy
Hey, it ain't all bad.That's great news for any competitor, lmao.
SamuelJohnsonsamueljohnson@mstdn.socialSep 21, 2026, 6:49 PM@geerlingguy At one time I had 8 in use. Down to 3 now. Can't see buying another any time soon. A used mini PC is so much better value.
ShutterBuggeddeveloping_agent@mastodon.socialSep 22, 2026, 4:28 PM@geerlingguy Not the first in a long line of shitty things the raspi foundation has done.