@volpeon they did their IPO so they're a shareholder-backed for-profit company now :u doesn't help component prices also went up though.

there are a lot of other raspi-adjacent SBCs (Single Board Computers) that might be interesting though, like orange pi, banana pi, radxa, etc.

it kinda depends on what you want though, if all you want is a small machine, small formfactor office PCs are probably the best bang for buck, you can get them for as little as 30eu sometimes