alt Hacker NewsA Pi 4 is my son's primary computer, GCompris, Tux Racer, my vibe coded apps for him are the primary use cases.
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Brian_K_White • today at 7:26 PM
Are they using the gpio/i2c/spi at all? Otherwise literally anything else is better.
Even if using those, if it's not in a robot or a weatherproof box on a pole or something, then a usb gpio dongle on a pc or mac makes 900x more sense.
The fact that something is done does not serve as an example that something makes any sense to do.
Using a pi for a computer is like when women knit sweaters for things that don't benefit from sweaters.
iLoveOncall • today at 6:56 PM
And at $400 it doesn't make sense for it to be. You could buy a much better computer for the same price.
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GCompris and Tux Racer were launched over 20 years ago.
They would be fine with the low RAM models.
This is my point above: Most people should ignore the 16GB model.