As someone who kept my Pi 1 in a drawer for years and then bought a Pi 4 after they became available again but after building out a bit of a home lab, the inter

As someone who kept my Pi 1 in a drawer for years and then bought a Pi 4 after they became available again but after building out a bit of a home lab, the internet consensus seems to be you're lucky. The Pis are energy efficient and worth running apps where catastrophic data loss aren't a concern. I use my Pi 1 with DietPi to run AdGuard and my Pi 4 for simple web apps, like dashboards. But the world has moved forward and there are options like the ODroid that are almost as cheap and energy efficient, without the relying on an SD card. I run my Home Assistant off my ODroid with nvme. They are all backed up to a couple different places, but my failure expectations are completely different. I fully expect my Pis to just have completely ruined cards one day, whereas I am more worried about a bad update to my Home Assistant server.