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1010 sats \ 0 replies \ @02db2213a7 1 Jun 2023 \ on: Nobody should suggest using a Raspberry Pi for running a Bitcoin node in 2023!!! bitcoin
I'm grateful to Raspberry Pi Foundation for popularizing microcomputers and making SBC devices affordable but I wish their decision making processes put more weight on other factors than their cost and logistics of manufacturing. So far, it looks like their product management team completely ignored users' convenience and e-waste issues when designing I/Os. RPi Zero devices notoriously using micro USB B even for peripherals (so they need ancient standard charger and special OTG adapter cable to connect any peripheral), all Raspberries using completely unpopular HDMI variants (micro and mini, either way, who has such a spare cable at home?), with every iteration users call on the foundation to finally include some other storage option, even if that means old SATA controller on USB bus - no, we need to live with SD cards that die on us randomly or again, buy USB to SATA adapters purposely for the Raspberry Pi, that no one will ever use for anything else (do I smell e-waste again?), not to mention that f*ck tons of those cheap adapters are pretty much incompatible with ARM Linux and the ones that do work properly cost like 5 times more than the ones that don't (last time I checked it was like 2019 so maybe this has changed for better, don't know). Anyway, I pretty much gave up on them.