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No.14468
for $5 you can just buy one incase you think of something to do with it later
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No.14575
The RBPi is full of binary blobs and broadcom crap, go with the CHIP.
That being said it's never a $5 or $9 computer, shipping tends to be expensive on these.
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No.14576
>>14469>>14575you guys are bitching about broadcom's proprietary bootloader and suggesting allwinner as an alternative?
that's, like, I can't even find words for what that is
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No.14581
>>14579something MIPS probably
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No.14586
>>14575Honestly, I'm less offended about the broadcom stuff, then the fact that you need to purchase licenses to get the SoC to do the hardware decoding that it was already designed to do.
It's pure crippleware, and this soykaf needs to stop!
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No.14589
keep it off the internet like a smart person anyways and you'll be fine with the nonfree garbage on it. as an exceedingly portable and disposably cheap device for programming, I think it's exciting. they just need to make more