Can all of you please stop using some cheap micro USB charger you still have lying around as power supply for your Pi and get a proper 5V/2.5A *power supply*?

This issue bites SO many people and it's frankly getting a bit old to constantly debug undervoltage instability ;)

@foosel I wish they would have used a barrel jack instead of the non USB compliant USB port...

@foosel while we're at it, I'd like to note that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is terrible at power electronics

@uint8_t @foosel oh yeah. When they did finally start using USB-C they fucked it up in the most basic of ways, resulting in it not properly working with good cables/chargers...

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@uint8_t @foosel (yes, this is probably in part due to USB-C's design complexity, but it's still something they should've just tested for...)

@f0x they did worse things previously, so it's not like they failed for the USB-C being too complex

@uint8_t we remember reading about the USB-C thing and being like uhhhh this is dumber than even some of the mistakes we've beaten ourselves up over in the past

the spec: "use these two resistors, like this."
rpi: "i think i will cause problems instead"

@ellies and then blame the user for using an USB compliant power source

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