Raspberry Pis Found in Abandoned Spin Scooters in Seattle
www.tomshardware.com
Where was this knowledge when the Pi supply was low?

Title says most of it. Spin electric scooters exited the Seattle market and abandoned their scooters all over the city and apparently they have a pi 4 in them!

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Pis are pretty commonly used in industrial automation use cases (production lines, robot arms, etc) too. When there were major supply chain issues, a lot of the limited supply was going towards those use cases as the companies using them had already placed large orders very far in advance.

      • FryHyde@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        It wasn’t just that they placed orders in advance. The pi foundation literally told people it was prioritizing those customers over anyone else. Kinda shitty IMO, considering the reason the pi was built in the first place.

        • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m not well versed on the details surrounding this, but it sounds like Pi pivoted to supply businesses during the chip shortage, instead of direct to consumer in the more hobbyist space.

          That seems like a win win, well within moral business practice.

          Yes, Pi was founded (afaik) as a cheap minimalist PC. No thrills or bullshit, with a strong moral stance on making a barebones PC available to all.

          Pivoting to help keep a global chip shortage from causing a global collapse of anything needing simple circuit boards isn’t evil. It’s helping everyone get through potentially a lot worse than not having access to a mostly hobbyist device. And it probably meant they could use their own impacted supply line in the most efficient way possible.

          Hopefully the consumer Pi isn’t lost for good, but this seems far from corporate greed, but a necessary concession during a global disaster.

  • Wats0ns@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    232·
    1 year ago

    Wait, a company can just decide to abandon hundreds of their hardware in the middle the streets?

  • Grass@geddit.socialEnglish
    73·
    1 year ago

    Can you just take apart abandoned things for parts in the states? Probably just have to be a white male and no problems?

    • skwerls@waveform.socialEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Probably, who is gonna come after you? The company has decided it is too expensive to repossess them.

    • w2tpmf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      1 year ago

      What oppressed society do you live in where an item abandoned in the streets isn’t fair game? Does your realm not know the law of “finders keepers”??

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Well, they sure as fuck didn’t go to the hobbyist market, we’ve been getting fucked by the rPi foundation for 3 years now.