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Hardware

the Raspberry Pi just got up to $100 more expensive. same culprit as everything else

three price rises in five months, up to $100 on the 16GB Pi 5, and a seven-fold jump in memory costs behind all of it. I still think the cheap end of the range is the best value in computing — but the top end is a harder sell now.

Ravi Malhotra · 11h ago · 8 min

Hardware

Raspberry Pi says stop waiting for the Pi 6 — it's 2028, and it won't have an NPU

Raspberry Pi's CEO says the Pi 6 won't land before early 2028 and won't have an NPU. I think telling people that plainly is the most useful thing they could have done — even though it's not what anyone wanted to hear.

Ravi Malhotra · 12h ago · 8 min

Software

your Proxmox 8.4 box stops getting support in August. here's the 9.2 upgrade

Proxmox VE 8.4 stops getting support in August. 9.2 finally adds the automatic load balancing VMware refugees kept asking for — and I think the upgrade is worth doing for that alone, deadline or not.

Priya Nair · 14h ago · 8 min

Hardware

building a NAS got brutally expensive this year — and nothing improves until 2027

NAS drive prices climbed roughly 46% between September and January, driven by the same AI datacenter demand squeezing memory everywhere. here's the honest buy-now-or-wait call.

Ravi Malhotra · 15h ago · 6 min

Software

Immich 3.0 is finally a Google Photos replacement you can hand to your family

the first major version bump in the project's history brings a visual automation builder, real mobile photo editing, and live video transcoding. it also drops a database backend that will break some upgrades.

Priya Nair · 18h ago · 6 min