It's funny, I remember hitting issues with my pi3 running homeassistant with lots of dongles.
Eventually I worked out that the random reboots were down to power draw.
The thing is, they're not £40 any more (at least, the 5 isn't). A brief check here, puts the 4GB at £59, and the 8GB at £79.
Hopefully, they'll continue to make the previous models at a reasonable price.
I think the RPi has done it's job (cheap, relatively open hardware), and kickstarted the market.
Maybe they were struggling with "what do we do next?", and selling up to let the founders do new things is not the most terrible option.
Or something that could have been explained in 3 paragraphs becoming a 20 minute, overproduced video complete with someone making a stupid face in the thumbnail, and SOMETHING ALLCAPS in the title.
It's a lot better value for families, too. Much like spotify. I wouldn't pay £8/m for myself, but I would pay £16 for 6 people.
Specifically three seashells.
If you're serious, just remember the old saying "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you or I can remain solvent"
Just wait until they announce AI Dildos.
I nearly left them after reading through all that, but I kinda reached the conclusion that they have open discussion about it on the company portal with users, they've given their justifications, and they are listening. Who knows though, maybe they're just funnelling through brave to save money, and it's got nothing to do with search results.
To me, it's an icecream with a smell of dogshit, rather than an icecream topped with dogshit. It's not completely perfect, but it's a struggle to find any service that's 100% agreeable nowadays.
Some of the supermarkets here have self scanners with a belt, and a packing area big enough for 5-6 bags, it's pretty awesome.
Aside from the odd age-restricted check, the only real problem is Mrs. Scoggins buying three items on it over the course of 20 minutes
Not to mention half the attempts in /var/log/auth.log
Edit: This probably wouldn't reduce the number of attempts, but I'm leaving my try at a joke up.