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Incredible post. Thank you for this deep insight.

Another AIM success story. I bought in at 37p some years ago. Waste of time!!!

1) Filter people. You still see the thread title but their inane comments don't pollute your attention.

2) Don't reply to anyone posting drivel.

You have to make at least 10 pointless posts about a "Santa Rally" in order for it to become true. Everyone knows that.

Filtered!

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You want as efficient as possible because you are paying for the electricity. You then recover some costs from heat loss.

If you want poor efficiency, well, you already have that in any electrically heated boiler since it has zero compute power already. The point is to increase that compute power (within thermal limits of the boiler) to as much as possible.

Basically, IMO Ocado has made some bad decisions in allowing the tech to be deployed in areas of lower population density. They probably did this under pressure of "getting results" or whatever, and now we are paying the price.

Clearly they got it right in Australia and Spain. This is promising for the future.

Following MKS's link:

"Since going live just over a year ago, Carlos Pedreira Freire, CEO Alcampo, revealed our CFC has enabled online sales in Madrid to grow more than 50%!

He also notes the benefits to Alcampo customers: 95% perfect orders - meaning all products are included - and 97% on-time deliveries! The result, Carlos said, is a "very high level of customer satisfaction", with an NPS exceeding 65%. "

Raspberry Pis would not make a good data centre due to their poor efficiency compared to proper hardware.

These ChatGPT "talk like a pirate" posts are getting tiresome.

I think the fallout from AI is affecting RPI since many people for some reason thought RPI was an AI company which is not the case IMO.

I presume his recent purchase was something he had to do because he was CEO. Does anyone know if this is the case?

If I were him I'd dump all my shares at the crazy P/E ratio we're at, unless he had some absolutely mind blowing product in the pipeline.

I see we have now retraced the entire rise that occurred after the IPO.

Haven't seen this low for 1 year. If the price gets down to 100 then we would have a reasonable P/E ratio of 20 IMO.

Good article here: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/qualcomm_arduino_acquisition/

"This has what it calls a "dual brain" architecture, with a CPU capable of running Debian Linux, plus a real-time microcontroller, bridging high-performance computing with real-time control."

This is literally what the Raspberry Pi is. Certainly counts as competition to RPI so if anything I would expect a decrease in share price.

the fact it was a reputable source writing a bull**** article is really useful information so please keep posting links like this. if the source had been some disreputable "influencer" then yes, it would have been pointless posting the link.

the fact is, it is really interesting that someone at city am (a legitimate newspaper read by investment bankers in london) has written an overtly negative piece on rr. the useful information is not the article itself, but the tone and poor quality of the article, indicating some sort of bias.

In no way is RPI undervalued at a PE ratio of 76. The hype train has got hold of RPI since the very beginning. It is not as if people are just discovering its potential (sadly).

I think someone has their wires crossed.

It's very interesting that the article was published... my comment was directed at the article author. Please keep posting links to articles like these as they do provide useful insight into possible attempts at manipulation.

Utterly stupid article.

"Investment increases" is what the headline should have been.

Someone wants the price down.

I've been watching for an RNS if someone in particular is building a position but nothing yet. Might just be several big optimists!

While I'm here, think I should add that I think the RPi 500+ is a great product, but it is the product the original RPi 500 should have been when it was released. It was a minor outrage that it didn't come with an NVMe slot and that has been fixed. RPI also fixed the Pico 2's GPIO bug eventually.

I'm glad they fixed both these things but it took them a while in both cases.

I have no idea how that sort of thing works. I can only assume you aren't seeing the full picture.