I also don't get people who use these for desktops or especially homelab servers. It's never made sense to me. But, I really like them for "computer that's a co

I also don't get people who use these for desktops or especially homelab servers. It's never made sense to me. But, I really like them for "computer that's a computer rather than a microcontroller, but closer to the Real World than a Real Computer." These little boards usually offer GPIO, SPI, I2C, and sometimes even CAN natively, which makes them awesome for plugging into real world devices without needing another microcontroller hop in the middle. I've used boards in this 5-10W class for automotive reverse engineering, higher-order drone control like computer vision / flight planning (paired with a microcontroller for the hard-realtime control loop), and robotics. I think they're awesome for that use case.