Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 cranks up the power – and the heat The Raspberry Pi maker has rounded off a busy few weeks with the launch of an updated Compute Module 5 - it has the same form factor but considerably more power than the previous generation. The Compute Module 4 turned up in 2020, a year after the Raspberry Pi 4. The Compute Module 5 has followed a similar pattern, arriving …
... are you surprised by something they've done, and explained, forever? Also, why is this such an issue for you, given that they're not expecting you to change your money to dollars to buy one, and the exchange rate charged by pound-using UK sellers doesn't tend to change daily, so once you find out what your local source of compute modules is charging, it stays that much all the way through, at least it did for CM4s.
Last night I needed a pi for a task and discovered that I had to opt out of telemetry collection next that username/password was limited to hyphons and lowercase
Clearly the pi is no longer what it used to be in the end I put the pis back in their draw disgusted
Sry for any typos but this was posted via android phone which sadly I trust more than my pis now
The Pi and Raspberry PI OS don't send any telemetry.
Only the imager that writes the OS image to an SD card offers you the opportunity to opt out. It just collects information on use of the imager, not the user.
You don't have to use the Imager. There are multiple ways you can flash your SD.
If you had got over yourself and set up your Pi you could have posted without typos.
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