(4-29-26) MartenMario64 Said:

"Recently, one of My threads on the Raspberry Pi Forums

got deleted for no reason, I never said anything illegal

yet, they deleted it, heres screenshots and full transcript

to Prove it once existed. (Note even in my posts... its like it never existed.)

and I never said anything illegal, so its a direct misuse of moderator powers.

This is what it looks like post moderator deletion.

If You want the full transcript, look below.

Name: "The original idea of the Raspberry Pi is slipping away."

Ok, You read the title, You know what's up.
Over the years, if You've not noticed...
The Idea Of A Disposable/Easy To Replace Computer,
a one thats meant to be toyed around with...
is slipping away sooner than You think...

And... don't talk about stuff like the Raspberry Pi 
Zero 2 W, those are way older and have no business
being a even close to normal computer. (except
they are apparently pretty good at like the first two
generations of gaming).

Do You Remember when you could just use whatever stuff You
wanted? well that's almost gone... and if We don't do something,
the idea of a computer like this will be [color=#FF0000]DEAD[/color].

For the [color=#00FF00]Raspberry Pi 3b/3b+[/color]
that hardware cannot run Nintendo Gamecube Games. (At a good
framerate that is).

The [color=#FF4000]Raspberry Pi 4B[/color] added more strict power limits...
and additionally, Micro HDMI. Those were powerful enough to do
Dolphin Emulator/Nintendo Gamecube Games at moderate speeds,
but with two major drawbacks, the power requirements, and the
Micro HDMI. Two Major Things Making The Customer Experience
not as straightfoward, and not as money friendly, either,
first of all, the Raspberry Pi 8GB RAM Model
for example, is likely 90$ due to current
ram shortages, combined with a Official Power Supply (12.00$)
plus a Micro HDMI To HDMI Converter, which itself was about 7-8$,
and if You wanted a heatsync, another 5$, which results in about 109$,
if You wanted a fan and casing, it would be about 7$ more, in the full total being
116$.

The [color=#FF0000]Raspberry Pi 5B[/color], released in Late 2023, really shows the issues at hand,
while this does have the full power to fully run Nintendo Gamecube Games (
hey if you wanna see gameplay of it running on Raspberry Pi OS, Check Out
[url]https://drive.google.com/file/d/15ZfHyor606TKHVLa2wEp0Z_eXnYe0fTs/view?usp=drive_link[/url]
, and somehow Pizza Tower? [url]https://github.com/martenmario64/Pizza-Tower-On-Raspberry[/url])
, it also starts to dabble into Sony Playstation 2 Emulation, theres once again the setbacks of the Raspberry
Pi 4, but its gotten worse, for this example im gonna be using the 4gb model
of the Raspberry Pi 5, Allows for most things, and don't get Me started
on the 8/16GB ram model, anyways the Raspberry Pi 5 4GB by itself is 110.00$ USD,
then the power supply once again, is 12$, and the heatsync is about 8$,
as for the Micro HDMI, its about 7$ again, however... for the final boss
I introduce... the Pironman5, this was a case introduced shortly after
the Raspberry Pi 5 released, featuring a OLED display, a power button,
NVMe drive support, fan support, heatsync included too, but for all that,
it's 80$ USD. leading to a final total of 204$, if you decide to go with the
Pironman5 Case, otherwise its 137$,

and that, is far away from the initial goal... a cheap good computer for people who can't afford
a full MINI PC, and/or getting into programming, or wants to learn with GPIO pins, and this
is why I believe for a potential Raspberry Pi 6, (also, don't start speculating about the Raspberry Pi 6 Launch, I don't know when thats coming.)
its best to completely scrap the Micro HDMI ports and go with normal HDMI again (maybe add back
AV Jack Too?),
also have something with a charge so it can release full power if power goes away for a second, so it does not die
with a undervoltage USB Cable.

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I have preserved have the original message, it said

W. H. Heydt Said:
MartenMario64 wrote: ↑
"its best to completely scrap the Micro HDMI ports and go with normal HDMI again (maybe add back
AV Jack Too?),"
What? This dead horse again? We just got through with a thread beating that particular horse.
Prediction: Thread closure in 3...2...1..."