There are a lot of reasons not to give them your money. They’re assholes to the maker community and they openly talk shit on a lot of their customer base. That’s beside the point, though, really.

It’s just not a spectacular option for hosting. In order to get a Rpi competitive with even the shittiest laptop from 7 years ago, you’re going to end up spending more than you would spend on a decent laptop from 7 years ago.

If it is a computer that turns on, it will likely function orders of magnitude better than an Rpi and won’t bind you to ARM architecture. My entire hosting setup was pulled out of a recycling pile for free. Install ubuntu/ubuntu server and enjoy yourself.

If you intend on spending any amount of money on this hobby, I cannot express enough how much I recommend against any of that money going toward a Raspberry Pi.

EDIT: A lot of you seem to be reading this as “Raspberry Pis are all nonfunctional” and getting mad about it. Don’t do that.

Edit 2: Good to see that all the stupid parts of reddit made it here

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    1 year ago

    I tried one ~5-10 years ago and the idea was good but it didn’t have nearly the level of support that Raspis have.

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        1 year ago

        A little bit of both IIRC.

        It used a different chipset than the raspberry so it needed a tweaked version of Raspbian to run but the drivers weren’t great and the repos were missing a lot of stuff/outdated.

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          1 year ago

          Ah thanks!

          Yeah that’s gonna be tricky for me then… I really don’t like to deal with driver headaches.

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      I’ve definitely also had the experience of dodgy hardware support (in Armbian, which is all volunteer) with weird Chinese SBCs.