…yet.

Honestly any parts you buy today probably won’t be much good in 30 years.

Did you know the world naïve is written backwards on your water bottle?

dictatorship or an undeveloped country

Right-Wing Government: why not both?

Three HP ProLiant servers running ProxMox cluster. Each box has a VM for Portaiber, as well as mismatch of VMs running Home Assistant OS, OpenWRT, Ubuntu, Windows and Debian, along with a Windows file server that connectes to four cheap NAS running Ubuntu LTS with a combined 20 mismatched hard drives by iSCSI and borgs them together with Storage Spaces.

It’s a fucking mess, if I’m honest.

Heck the planet.

Have you seen the pond that is on the roof?

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” - Feddit.UK

Poor Ligma. Worst case of Dee’s syndrome I’ve ever seen.

Off the top of my head, the GPIO pins are excellent for integrating with electronic projects. The tiny size if you really can’t justify the size of a USFF machine (paperback book vs pack of cards). For really light workloads a Pi might use less power.

I never really thought of old laptops, to be honest, that’s an interesting take. But with regards to cost, a RasPi 4B with 4GB RAM costs £50 in the UK. Factor in the cost of an SD card, power supply and basic case and it’s easy to see that pushing £100. Meanwhile £80 will get you a more powerful USFF (this was the first result on EBay UK: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255874880392 ) which will be a better server, emulation machines, media centre, or general-purpose desktop PC than a Pi.

Sure, I agree. My point is that instead of focusing on the Raspberry Pi specifically, I wish we highlighted that these things could be done better on general-purpose computers - maybe even general-purpose computers stuffed in a cupboard and forgotten about - rather than one specific device (which may not be a good fit) from one specific manufacturer (even one as laudable as the RPF).

IMHO, part of the problem is the people buying RasPis don’t need them. Look at the number of articles with titles like “Host Your Own Web Server On A Raspberry Pi” or “Automate Your Home With a Raspberry Pi”. I love the Raspberry Pi, but I think that most of the people who buy them are just using them as Linux boxes and they’d be much better off buying a second-hand USFF PC instead.