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		yogorenapan 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to ... Depends what you're using it for. A lot of people tend to buy pi-likes as servers which is absolutely bonkers. If you time eBay right, $50 would get you a fairly powerful intel NUC with much more performance and peripherals

mavamaarten 3 months ago [–]

I don't think it's bonkers. For running a true home server sure, there's more powerful things out there. But for hosting something like a ZigBee and Z-wave coördinator a Pi makes much more sense. Electricity is expensive, yo

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