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So you’re saying I can go downtown and grab any of these that I see?

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Why would you use Pi’s at production scale? Surely there must be better (cheaper, right-sized, readily available) purpose-built ARM SBCs.

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If not the 4b there are half a dozen cheaper RPi systems that are way more power efficient and capable for this use case.

Imo Raspberry Pi may have shot itself in the foot trying to make bank by overselling the 4B to business customers who didn’t need them which exacerbated their shortage for people who DID need them.

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The Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd. literally generates most of its income via companies using Raspberries in production. The dual HDMI ports on the RPi 4 are another acknowledgedment of that (the ability to drive two monitors at once was added in recognition of digital signage customers).

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Lazy solution and ‘we’ll fix it later’?

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Pi’s in production is becoming much more common these days.

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more photos of the components would be great. maybe even get shell access 😈?

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So that’s where they all went!

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Free pis as far as I’m concerned. If they were ever gonna “recover” their assets they would have to track them down and if anybody has just the pi in their possession they’d have to prove it’s one of theirs, probably by getting law enforcement involved. I doubt the city would be all that happy to help when they’ve literally just littered throughout the city and left.

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