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You made me realise that it's time to drop the Raspberry Pi for new projects, much like I decided to drop Android after 13 years of use in favour of an iPhone.
by selfhoster11 4y ago
You made me realise that it's time to drop the Raspberry Pi for new projects, much like I decided to drop Android after 13 years of use in favour of an iPhone.
Unless Raspberry Pi comes back with a roar in the next year or two, the best hardware platforms will be decommissioned x86 low-power SFF PCs, followed by cheap-ish special-purpose ARM devices if a specific application requires that. Raspberry Pi was the only well-supported, well-priced ARM machine that was truly general-purpose in my eyes.
- croutonwagon 4y agoThe Pi isnt bad for certain things. And can still be had for fairly cheap. I put one in my parents house for remote support, some small postfix and NUT/UPS shutdown goodness. I usually just get a canakit on amazon for under 200 bucks and it comes with most of the utilities, cases etc needed to flesh it out. Still thinking of making a Sonos style speaker system in the house with some Pi's and some JBL charge speakers or something which can always be used as a BT speaker and even setup in tandem for stereo. Those things are solid. I use them on the boat, when playing along to songs, even when setting up a projector in the yard for the kids to watch a movie in a "special" setup.