Bought a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB and won a Pi 4 2GB from a raffle before the shortages began. Never use them. Thin clients (like, 1L) are better at almost everythin

Bought a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB and won a Pi 4 2GB from a raffle before the shortages began. Never use them. Thin clients (like, 1L) are better at almost everything, even if more expensive. Most of my projects are software-related and don't require GPIO. Anything that needs GPIO... there's a thing called an Arduino. Old school, but having no OS, more GPIO, more voltage flexibility, much smaller sizes, and plenty of availability is pretty nice. Plus Arduinos in my experience are much more consistently predictable in how they will behave (no worrying if your SystemD service that starts your Python script was correctly configured, no SD Card corruption, no need to update software). If I ever need GPIO... I can just combine Arduino + Thin Client.