raspberry pi have some of the worst power management and usage of any SBCs. theyre a non starter for an entire class of projects (battery powered). so no. dont just get a pi. do 5 minutes of research.

btw, i have inherited projects that used raspberry pis for the computing. every single one had to be reworked replacing the pi.

additionally, if the pi doesnt fit your RF footprint needs in an enclosure, it is not possible to get the chips standalone. plus the schematic is not open source. fuck broadcom and fuck raspberry pi foundation. acceptable for light hobby use only

So what other board can I buy today, put in a drawer for 5 years, maybe 10, take it out then and still find a modern linux distro with a modern kernel for it? RPi 1 still has debian stable support.

if you want to link msvc built libraries (that are external/you dont have source), mingw may not be an option. for an example you can get steamworks sdk to build with mingw but it will crash at runtime

its incredibly uninteresting and marks the perfect point to close the tab and go back to something enriching

we need a site like this for ios alarms going off completely silently. still happening

today FOUO or CONFIDENTIAL, maybe tomorrow or next week SECRET and after that seemed fine maybe some TOP SECRET or throw in a SAP for fun! call it the maralago bathroom

so many things flat out ignore it in 2026 let's be real

tor nodes are zero risk as long as they're not an exit

been running nodes since 2017 on two providers and zero issues

yes, but i was likening being part of the proxy network to being a tor exit node. I should've made my comment clearer.

i tend to uninstall/not use things that say "not right now" or "maybe later" instead of no. such a terrible and telling trend