alt Hacker News> But I don't know, it's not completely rational, I still love my Raspberry Pis.
Feelings over facts, at least you acknowledge it.
The success of (and the issues with) the raspberry pi mainly derive from it being mistaken for a good home-server platform. It's not, it's awful for that use case. For pretending it to be an embedded systems platform (either for prototyping or to later target the compute modules for production usage) sure, it's great.
It's all fine as long as the (computing) needs are low and budget is not an issue.
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egorfine • 08/01/2025
> It's not, it's awful for that use case
I'd be inclined to slightly agree with you on Raspberry Pi 4 and older, but the 5 is a whole lot different beast with a leap forward in performance.
>> It's not, it's awful for that use case.
The problem, imho, is that it's amazing right up to a point where it isn't. It's tiny, noiseless, sips power....while providing what you need it to. Until one day the service you set up is not available anymore, the Pi isn't responding on the network, and then you check and the microSD is corrupt and everything you've set up is gone. Hope you had a good backup because the only way to fix it is to set it up again from scratch.