Speaking of, it's been a while since I've seen a jeff geerling submission on HN front page.

The disruption to consumer electronics, both PCs and SBCs, will last for several years at minimum

Actually, I am happy that mess has lead to people finally questioning if a calculator really needs a full browser backend and use 4GB.

I mean, sucks to be a buyer right now but as a developer I like where things are heading :( :)

I don't understand? Should they be sold at a lower price when people are still willing to buy at the current higher price?

Look, it's a misallocation of resources for you to own any RAM at all, and you should thank Sam Altman for letting you have some at any price.

Why do you want Pi5 if you can get a smartphone with a screen?

2032

Presumably the only customers buying Pis right now are companies who use them in their products. There are much better options on the used market for people needing small computers/servers.

The prices are crazy, but the uncertainty makes the choices even harder. I have my eyes on a Framework laptop 13 for some time. I was considering buying it with less RAM now, and then buying more RAM later. Now what I fear is: by the time RAM prices become reasonable, we might as well be using DDR7. So, even with a custom-built desktop PC or a Framework laptop it would be a pity to have to upgrade everything. On the other hand, it may well be our new reality, so maybe better buying in into 64GB RAM now? Not even sure if my reasoning is correct.

I'm buying up broken screen old Android smartphone instead.

For example I got several broken screen Huawei P20s from 2018, they were 10€ each. 128GB storage with 4GB RAM https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_p20-9107.php

They boot up, you can install termux and then whatever is your choice of Linux software. I run several copyparty instances for friends and family

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/

https://github.com/9001/copyparty