alt Hacker NewsI have been running uConsoles with CM5 (2712 and 3588 with 16GB RAM) for 6 months as daily drivers.
They are ~$500* and present the same ARM problems/opportunities.
But they are completely silent (no fan, the case is the heat sink).
My 6600(3050) desktop from 2016(2024) with replaced SSD(2021)/RAM(2025) (they age like milk) now gets little use and M$ will soon sleep with the fishes.
*Hard to get now as the 3588 that has linux for uConsole is out of stock and the Raspberry one is rare and more expensive by the day.
Got 2 of these early on. They are wonderfully designed, unfortunately I've been caught in the "building things" trap for few months now and they have been relegated to being used as retro gaming/ computing learning boxes for my sons. They really don't appreciate it at all (yet)....but I can hope they will remember it in the future. Teaching them to get to terminal and run the emulator was great fun...reminded me of MSDoS and the hours of troubleshooting to run games with limited memory and drivers back in the day. I just worry that with LLMs the whole point of teaching them basic terminal/troubleshooting skills might be lost soon. We will see.