Raspberry Pi prices have been rising aggressively, driven by surging memory chip demand.

What makes it worse is how quickly the hikes have come — two rounds within just two months. The most recent price increase pushed some models to more than double their original MSRP.

An unfortunate reality of the modern web is that many websites check your User-Agent string and serve different content (or no content at all) based on what browser they think you are. With our previous UA string, we were getting degraded UIs, "your browser is not supported" pages, network throttling, and outright HTTP 403 errors from many prominent websites.

From: Ladybird Browser Newsletter: This Month in Ladybird — January 2026

A sad case of browser discrimination. I had assumed that with the death of Internet Explorer, such practices had largely faded away. User-Agent (UA) exists to enable graceful degradation, allowing older or less capable browsers to receive simplified content, not to serve as a whitelist that reserves the full web experience for a handful of approved browsers.

When you throttle or block based on UA, you are breaking the ethos of the open web, the very reason the World Wide Web was created in the first place. It is discrimination. From the article, this appears to be fairly common across the websites and services of Big Tech companies, such as Google and Meta. When those same companies also control the lion's share of the browser market, this begins to look uncomfortably close to anti-competitive behavior.

3D printing is fun. One common situation for anyone who owns a 3D printer is that you eventually end up with a growing stack of filaments at home.

These spools come in many combinations of colors and materials, and sooner or later you'll need to top up a spool that's running low. The problem is that Bambu filament labels only show the material and variant—such as PLA Basic, PLA Wood, PLA Matte, or ABS—but not the color code or color name. This makes it surprisingly tedious to figure out which exact filament to reorder. You either dig through old purchase receipts or manually try to match colors on the website.

If you have a Flipper Zero with the flipper-bambu plugin installed, you can now easily scan a Bambu filament spool via its RFID tag to retrieve the color code, along with other useful details such as temperature configurations, specifications, and production date—information that isn't normally visible.