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This's a common theme on the internet.

Person A says rpi is bad for purpose X.

I ask why.

People start commenting that there's better compute for similar price.

Except it's not answer to what I asked. My question isn't trying to discover best compute for pi price, it's trying to discover what's bad about pi for purpose X.

"Why pi is bad for purpose x?" and "Can I get better compute for purpose X w/ similar price point?" are different questions.
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sommerfeld 1y ago

I gave you a straight answer: storage is suboptimal and fragile, not my fault if you don't believe me.

If you want more reasons:

* aarch64 is a shitty architecture: bootloaders are different for each hardware and are super proprietary, hard to configure and just terrible in general compared to standard x86 bootloaders.

* there's less software support overall for aarch64

* rpis heavily depend on proprietary firmware for most basic functionality, almost nothing is upstreamed to the linux kernel

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Soul Reaver 1y ago

"storage is suboptimal and fragile, not my fault if you don't believe me."

I accept defeat, I'll assume you think rpi puts a Demonic curse on the same SSD that's used everywhere when you connect it to rpi, given no other form of explanation is provided despite asking multiple times/ways.