[–] 13 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I'd guess most of these systems have single purpose computers with a screen that updates every second. There's not much need to replace 100, 1MHz, computers with a server sending data to 100 ipads, updating every second with pretty colors. Plus I'd say familiarity for the controller is 1000x more important than anything else.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I suppose it would be good for a large number of mostly idle services. Nextcloud, home assistant, a few other containers. Things that don't do much except for brief periods, but still need to be running. Add in a zfs or btrfs filesystem and some of those operations will use a lot of ram.

    I certainty wouldn't go that route, I've found that 2-4GB in an SBC more than meets the purposes I use them for. I also don't think I'm willing to run off a microsd anymore now that I've discovered emmc and ufs boards.

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