Re:When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sell...
by booty on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:56PM
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When you say, "my" do you mean "my personal property" and by "Minuteman III" are we talking about the missile?
Ignoring all of that for a second, and focusing on the generalized sentiment:
I have a 60 year old computer attached to my
[...] and it's doing fine
Well, I'm a huge fan of that, but that seems like a fixed-purpose system. What a lot of people want from personal computers is the flexibility of doing fun and new things: new software, games, whatever.
Even "browsing the web" is (highly unfortunately) not a fixed purpose, as web standards evolve and pages (highly unfortunately) get heavier and more JS-dependent.
Ignoring all of that for a second, and focusing on the generalized sentiment:
Well, I'm a huge fan of that, but that seems like a fixed-purpose system. What a lot of people want from personal computers is the flexibility of doing fun and new things: new software, games, whatever.Even "browsing the web" is (highly unfortunately) not a fixed purpose, as web standards evolve and pages (highly unfortunately) get heavier and more JS-dependent.