forcing many users to consider the unthinkable “Do I really need 300 subscriptions?”

Well, normally I’d agree but in this case I’d guess that more people have watched the video than read the blog. That’s the order in which I stumbled on it too.

Edit: Also:

I’m working more with older SBCs and microcontrollers now, and I think that’s the direction many in the hobbyist space are going.

In the embedded video he talks about it from 4:40-5, then talks about microcontrollers and mentions used hardware (though says it’s also affected by price hike).

The thing that these complaints about RPi pricing complaints always seems to miss is that that was talked about in the blog.

doesn’t cover ISP or commercial equipment

The foreign backdoors will stay for critical infrastructure

Windows snobs cant even run Windows on without a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs

I’m not using Windows servers at home but if I did then a license wouldn’t be a factor when deciding what hardware to buy.