Refugee from Reddit after 11 years. Very happy to be here in the Fediverse and have no interest in going back.
But even then, it goes down to the manufacturing of that chip. RPi foundation chooses it because it’s built to a cost and they cannot afford outbid people for it. So again, manufacturing profits. Whether it’s because RPi cannot afford to pay more for those chips to get what they need, or factories are simply de-prioritizing those chips for others that make them more money.
Well, there’s always the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mantra. There’s a few reasons I tend to update. Because there’s a feature I want or need, to fix a big that affects me, or because a software frequently updates with breaking changes and keeping up with reading change logs is the best way to deal with that. The last option is usually because if I keep up with it I don’t have to read and fix multiple months of breaking changes.
I thought he was Tom’s uncle.