Why is the raspberry pi pushed so much? I got one for free but it seems inferior to cheap tablets in every way and costs as much to set up. I still spent 25$ on accessory gear to get it running and only because it had GPIO access which tablets don't. It feels like I have a really shitty android desktop.
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There was tons of marketing but no marketing hype is as strong as a regretful purchaser's denial.
but you can do cool stuff with it
I use my pi zero w as universal or remote to turn off my tv, available receiver, cable box. And it uses SSH to turn the ambilight running on a different raspberry behind my tv on and off
I do not really know, It just seems like a meme. the main thing is that it is for retro gaming which buying a cheap pc off of ebay is better in every way. I know people who buy pi zeros and use them for reddit bots. You could use it as a file server but other than that there is nothing really you could do for it.
Nah theyre super garbage for NAS stuff. They were ~$400 cheaper than generic normie laptop and they're cheap enough to be a project computer for people learning junk. Cheap low power servers work but actually managing a server is beyond most people.
What most people do with their pi is cram it on a shelf somewhere unused and then tell everyone they meet to buy one.
when I said a file server, I frogot to say that only 1 maybe 2 people could access it at a time without it trying to kill itself.
it has gpio retard. Its not meant to be used as a facebook/youtube machine like some chink tablet.
I mean, if you absolutely need a computer for something extremely specific then it's the best thing to buy.
It's perfectly reasonable for a facebook machine for your grandma or whatever.