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The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

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Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

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Post by collyw »

clintonb wrote: post #50
hinkley wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You’ve never gone clothes shopping with your SO? Remember the chairs by the changing room? These are the changing room chairs for the other half.

I've always found this situation weird. When my wife and I go shopping, we don't really do it together. I go to my stores. She goes to hers. No need for chairs. I can certainly understand why someone might shop with an SO, but it's never been a requirement for us.

When I rarely go clothes shopping it does seem to be pretty normal for couples to shop together.

Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

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Post by collyw »

gambiting wrote: post #51
abhishekjha wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is core CS subjects don’t train you enough to do that. You would have to learn that from somebody who already is an expert and that maybe a little out of reach for a lot of people. I have been wanting to hack hardware but I haven’t had any guidance yet about what/how to proceed and debug. Looks like abstractions have gotten complicated enough for somebody to necessarily ignore how it works under the hood…

Why would a CS course teach you any of this? You want an EE degree to learn this, not CS

CS must teach at least some hardware, no?

Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

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Post by rmoriz »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero? The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price. Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one. So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I…

The zero WH model with Wifi and Bluetooth is sold without such limits, includes pre-soldered headers. Price is below 15€ In Germany right now and if you order 3+ (or just order more than 29€) there is free shipping. https://www.sertronics-shop.de/en/2089/raspberry-pi-zero-wh

Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

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Post by crumpets »

collyw wrote: post #72
gambiting wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would a CS course teach you any of this? You want an EE degree to learn this, not CS

CS must teach at least some hardware, no?

Not really. Hardware and machines that actually run algorithms are just an implementation detail. :)

Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

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Post by entity345 »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero? The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price. Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one. So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I…

The Pi Zero is at £4.66 here in the UK (so $6) including 20% VAT.

Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

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Post by close04 »

rmoriz wrote: post #73
LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero? The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price. Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one. So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I…

The zero WH model with Wifi and Bluetooth is sold without such limits, includes pre-soldered headers. Price is below 15€ In Germany right now and if you order 3+ (or just order more than 29€) there is free shipping. https://www.sertronics-shop.de/en/2089/raspberry-pi-zero-wh

The RPi Zero W costs 10.35E. That's more than double the advertised price (I'm ignoring shipping here). It's not a big deal though, I doubt anyone interested in "joining the club" would pass because of the extra 5-6E but the point stands. It's impossible to find the Zero W for the advertised price in many parts of the world.

I get the limitations on manufacturing, costs, margins, etc. But they could just advertise it for 10E, sell it for 10E and actually make a profit that they can use to improve the product, drop prices later, etc. If I end up paying 10E anyway I'd prefer it if the ad didn't tout "Only $5". It's misleading no matter how much I like the company who's doing it.

Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

entity345 wrote: post #76
LeoPanthera wrote: post #2

I wonder if they will sell you more than one Raspberry Pi Zero? The Zero is advertised as being $5, and it makes me angry every time, because it's not possible to buy it at that price. Every Pi retailer either has a one-per-customer limit, and charges shipping, or, charges up to $15(!) per Zero if you buy more than one. So it's essentially a $15 device being advertised as $5. I shouldn't be so annoyed about it, but I…

The Pi Zero is at £4.66 here in the UK (so $6) including 20% VAT.

But where can you actually buy it at that price?

Re: The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store

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Post by Tsiklon »

onion-soup wrote: post #78

Upbeat ukulele music still in 2019? Really?

Atmospheric Black Metal apparently isn't whimsical enough to achieve mass market appeal.

Jokes aside, in my opinion, this sort of music while twee and forgettable is appealing enough to not leave a bad taste in the mouth about the whole advert. Especially when the subject matter has to be seen as approachable to a wide audience of people across age boundaries.

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