Why no love for the Pi?
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Slow, expensive, ARM
Mostly junk hardware made for toys. If I were rebuilding my node again today I wouldn’t use one.
I spent a lot of my early career in manufacturing PCBA’s. It was an interesting experience. I worked for a defense contractor where we would repurpose old (used, bc obsoleted) through hole IC’s because upgrading the design and therefore the product was a slow and costly undertaking.