(4-29-26) MartenMario64 Said:

So, it all began recently, only 4 days ago, (04-25-26)
You see, I was thinking of ideas to lessen the currently not so great prices.
(like the 4GB Ram Model with good cooling and other stuff is about 137$, for a Raspberry Pi 5.)
like making HDMI the normal on Raspberry Pi's again, and additionally
just erasing the 16GB Ram Model, cause its barely used by any normal person,
only AI companies with LLM's and other big tech companies, not the normal person,
and making a battery charged thing to store a charge then release all of it when
its voltage sagging for lower end chargers. But then the forums blew up (not in a good way.)
like for example first the comments were fine, just a LOT, also thagrol commented
on the part of the thread (check out here: [url]https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2373249[/url]) that specficlly says it'll throttle, and I responded with 
"It would still slow down very hard, once it starts throttling.", but that's not what I'm
talking about here, it starts with wildfire saying that "So what you're suggesting is to force every Pi buyer to pay extra for hardware whether they need it or not with the additional (great business ideas) of restricting amount of RAM available.

I'm in I'll invest £0.01 for 95% of your business.", but My idea was to lessen the amount of things
was to lessen the basically required things, yet they said that. Now W. H. Heydt didn't know I had
a entire pc style case for the Raspberry Pi until later, so im not gonna blame Him for assuming, cause
how would He know? then relivi basically was saying to not get the Raspberry Pi's anymore if I have
these issues, first of all, I already have a Raspberry Pi 5, second of all i used to have a laptop, it died on games,
it kept overheating, more specficlly also not helping the Raspberry Pi brand, as you're saying not to
buy the product, while it may not do much, it may not want people to buy the Raspberry Pi 4/5,
also jamesh said that the HDMI port was too big to bring back... but the USB cables + a ethernet cable
socket are basically the same size, if not bigger, then relivi also proceeds the idea saying this.

"I also have 2 'official' power adapters.
1 Pi4 (the 5V/3A), but it still is not good enough to power my RPi4-8GB with 1TB Samsung SSD, although according to specs and my calculations, it should work. But occasional USB-stack crash, so a made own/external powertree in the end to get it running stable for months and longer.
1 Pi5 (the 27W) but I have no Pi5 as I can do bill of material (BOM) calculations and I am not fooling myself. And I know Linux much longer then the Pi, also know ARM SoCs/platforms much longer then the Pi. So no Pi5 for me, I count 43 SBC vendors (see Armbian website), many have zero updates after dumping HW on the market, but also many are more attractive HW wise and cheaper if you look at the total BOM and run normal Linux nowadays.
Requesting future specs here never works, 80% is industry customers, they bring in the money mostly. Not you, you will buy add-ons at waveshare and so on. I have 2 SBC's with nice good metal case provided by the vendor itself. Both were there before Pi5 and don't need a fan as the SoC is made in more advanced silicon process. Same as smartphones. So you bought the wrong things is my conclusion. Distributed responsibility, not 1 supplier, you build your own computer, you need to solve issues yourself. Same as is the case for decades when building PC's."

then bensimmo (bensimmo joined in 2014 by the way.)
commented saying Mini Displayport is the way to go, 
but HDMI and Micro HDMI (Both) can now display
4Kp60 nowadays, so theres no advantage there, then also bensimmo proceeds to say that the
social media sites (apparently forums.raspberrypi.com is now a social media platform now, heh.)
want to tell us.

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Re: What I'm thinking a Raspberry Pi 6 could solve if they thought about it.
Sun Apr 26, 2026 10:43 am

    gordon77 wrote: ↑
    Sun Apr 26, 2026 10:16 am
"
    I haven't experienced issues with...

    Micro hdmi...
    Voltage sag...
    Too much ram...
    Overheating, l just fit a fan if needed...

    I run multiple pi4s and pi5s 24/7 with none of these 'issues' :D 
"

shush! , that's not what the social media sites want to tell us...
"
For the audio jack, thagrol says who uses 3.5 inch audio jacks anymore, but most people don't use it anymore due to two reasons the Raspberry
Pi is not the best at, first of all most smartphones nowadays do not have a audio jack, so thats likely a reason he said that,
more specficlly audio can be received from the Micro HDMI and HDMI,

also jahboater proceeds to say 

"Ditto!!
Except that I don't bother with the fan, a decent passive heat sink is fine for my overclocked Pi5."

what the comment was responding to? it was the "I run multiple pi4s and pi5s 24/7 with none of these 'issues'",
comment, now he is right You can get by with a passive heat sync but only if you're not trying to play
full games or leave the system running, also ejolson proceeds to say im "speculating" Raspberry Pi 6 features,
which is a assumption.

A person named ame (joined in 2012)
proceeds to say my age, to attempt to (most likely) disprove My idea,
also as for hippy hes right, also most people still have SOME HDMI cables
somewhere in their house, so it was and still is common, also thagrol proceeds to
say its something that people using the Raspberry Pi headless will not use and cost a few cents more, 
but the Raspberry Pi devices are meant for everybody to make
and learn from, quote here. "Raspberry Pi is used all over the world as an easy, affordable way to teach programming and physical computing to people of all ages and all backgrounds.", now this may not refer specficlly to the Pi 5, but its likely it is refering to the Raspberry Pi 5.

As for W. H. Heydt, he says he did not get HDMI until the Raspberry Pi 1, but the Raspberry Pi 1 also had another
port, the RCA Compostite video,
also MikeDB also says that HDMI would cost a tax, but its barely anything, less than one dollar.

also bensimmo proceeds to say the port is legacy alongside VGA, but HDMI is
still VERY common.

Hippy also proceeds to ask who the Raspberry Pi is for, quote here.
"That raises interesting questions as to who the Pi is aimed at, who is actually using it, and what for?",

also MikeDB kinda agrees, He begins to say that most people have HDMI, as its pretty universal.

Bensimmo begins to become sarcastic by saying that everything should be scrapped
in favor for USB-C, also He says that most people use handheld systems, I cannot even fully explain, quote here.

"Few have soundbars with their TVs
Not that many have PS, or XBOX, even, they seem to go for handheld switch/steam deck if they have consoles.

They all just use phones, the odd few have a laptop or PC and this is on Digital/IT/Computing courses,.often quit would ones unless they're into the PC thing.", Bensimmo then says that the "kids" want, and also Bensimmo says the Raspberry Pi Zero Series
should go full USB-C, also he says just to buy the adapters and what not, but
thats exactly what I wanna avoid, quote here.

"Personally. I also think it would be a right pain if there is no hdmi, but it's what the kids want and use and they're the future.
And we all know it'll be whatever industry would prefer in reality.

But we've got over it before.

(Though the Zero series should certainly have gone USB-C power connector and microHDMI by now.) That would make life easier. )

And when you consider the a hdmi, PD, USB hub is £9, why should everyone and headless users pay for all the other connectors. (the good old BOM excuse reasoning)
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then I come back, saying that the HDMI ports could go in many orientations, if they want two, as W. H. Heydt said if I
want HDMI are you willing to give up two HDMI ports? then I said this, quote here.

" So, have You thought of any other orientation, Stacking HDMI Ports,
Or Two HDMI Ports That Are Vertical, It Wouldn't Remove Anything.

(EDIT: So, You think that I should switch to a laptop? well I once had one,
it died on a Steam Game (Specficlly GMOD, And Pizza Tower.) And They Run
GREAT On the Raspberry Pi 5 (Well GMOD is ehhh not too great on the Raspberry Pi 5, But Pizza Tower? It runs great (made a installer for it. "https://github.com/martenmario64/Pizza- ... -Raspberry")). Also, have You forgotton the intent of the hardware?
Accessible for everybody? That reality is drifting away, and You're making it worse.)",

but MikeDB understood the risks,
and We talked a bit to each other, quote here.

"    MikeDB wrote: ↑
    Tue Apr 28, 2026 1:41 am

        MartenMario64 wrote: ↑
        Mon Apr 27, 2026 10:16 pm
        So, have You thought of any other orientation 

    Been there with the vertical sockets - they break. Or at least the ones JLCPCB supply do. At a minimum they need some sort of plastic support surround BEFORE they get inserted into the outer case which will always have some play on it. 

The Point Is That There's plenty of other ways to make HDMI work, be it just one HDMI Port, or some other layout, cause I mean... its a mockup, of what a solution COULD be.", then MikeDB says yeah its probably best to use full HDMI.

then bensimmo proceeds to say this.

"Student loans for you, they'll pay that back, maybe, by the time they retire (when it gets written off)

I have 2 F1 rigs in the room next to me at work*. Only one very wide monitor on them though.
You'll probably find the monitor are DP and HDMI as most cards have 3x DP and 1x HDMI, and you can daisy change DPs if the monitors allow.


*That's for E-sports courses and is of course a money pit, but it looks good in the adverts.",

but You see this is weird, this is unrelated to ANYTHING else, also andrew_pi He says HDMI is clumsy, quote here.
"There probably isn’t a general clamour for big clumsy connectors, even though it is your personal preference.",

then andrew starts comparing the Raspberry Pi to phones, even though its not its purpose, completely unrelated,
not even gonna quote it here, also after andrews messages, I said this, quote here.

"So, You still really think im talking about this cause its MY issue? Well, its made for
people... who don't have the money to get everything for the pi 5... and You're gonna say
just get a better laptop... You're ruining the original dream of the Raspberry Pi. most
people have HDMI.

(And don't say get a better case, I have a really good case.)"

also jamesh proceeds to say Nah, just too big. Micro is fine, even though yeah it may work,
but I already mentioned the problems with Micro, not gonna explain any further,
ame also proceeds to say im speculating, quote here.

"Er, you brought it up.

Threads like this are usually locked because:
a) it's pointless to speculate when or if a new Pi will be released, and what features it may or may not have.
b) your suggestions are literally your own opinion.
c) it's boring watching everyone else speculating, and promoting their opinion, or why everyone else's suggestions are no good."

then I basically say what about the people who don't have the money to afford everything, or don't wanna, and I say
it won't impact the people who do wanna spend 300$ on a Raspberry Pi 5, and as I could tell by this point....
they were mainly protecting their status. then thagrol gets focused on every single detail, saying
that Me saying they're protecting their status is agressive, and he talks about the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, even though that was not
the Point of the thread, saying it was cheap, and says im quote "14", and then ame says THIS, QUOTE HERE.
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Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:49 am

    MartenMario64 wrote: ↑
    Tue Apr 28, 2026 10:07 am
    I've Had Raspberry Pi Hardware Pretty Much All My Life. 

Yes, well the original Pi was released in 2012, so it's older than you.

I think it's bedtime. Someone's getting cranky."

and by the way then jamesh said that they don't like
the direction of the thread, locking it forever, by the way, ame and jamesh know each other, quote here. (proof here. "https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?p=2371888#p2371888")

" He doesn't work for Pi, we keep ame around for the craic." from the thread "Re: PCIE latch is too fragile, after sales no response".