Look I’d love to get a new #RaspberryPi5 - I love playing with this sort of tech. I have a few older ones kicking around still too! But I won’t be buying one because I don’t like to support a company that belittles people for taking an ethical stance against hiring known surveillance police to help support that particular market. It was dismissive, exclusionary, and pushing minority groups out of making spaces. And they still don’t think they’ve done anything wrong.
@CatherineFlick give a shot at the competitors! Rockchip-based SBCs are definitely promising, fully featured mainline kernel is incoming with lots of community efforts, computing power wise you get a better bang for the buck.
@CatherineFlick Your post made me curious of what Raspberry is, checked it out and it is an interesting concept since I like Linux. There are other company options out there from what I have read.
@CatherineFlick not going to lie, this is one I’m definitely torn on.
I don’t mind who they hire, and some of those skills can be useful, but it’s how a company responds to feedback from those with genuine ethical concerns.
@jsbilsbrough@CatherineFlick I'm definitely not torn--I'm no longer buying #raspberrypi There are lots of alternatives that can do the same thing for cheaper anyway. This issue just forced me to search for them.
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