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You're right about the square peg, but the big difference is the size of the community. I could do this work on any platform but if there's only a handful of pe
by mmastrac 3y ago
You're right about the square peg, but the big difference is the size of the community. I could do this work on any platform but if there's only a handful of people that know what a MangoPi or KiwiPi (names invented) can do, there's a whole lot of context to understand how cool a hack is.
Ditto for reading about projects -- it's great that Alice's Intel nuc can serve X pages per second, but it's easier to read and understand the technical feats of someone hacking off traces on a Pi 4 to expose PCIe because we all know the limits of the platform.
- kkielhofner 3y agoThe comparison to other ARM SBCs is kind of a non-starter to me considering what the software support and ecosystem/community looks like. I have an entire graveyard of ARM SBC Raspberry Pi alternatives and I've given up on that approach due to the horrendous software support and fringe ecosystem. However, I'm primarily talking about x86_64 here and is has the broadest software support and biggest community of all.