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Ghislaine 🌕 :goneinsanewolf:
Instead of buying a raspberry pi you can buy an old MacBook Air for the same price and it’ll have a battery, screen, more ram, and an ssd.

Paultron-3030
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Ghislaine@poa.st@poa.st I like having direct access to the digital pins and the built in py script meme

Ghislaine 🌕 :goneinsanewolf:
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yeah that’s fine as long as you actually need those hobbyist things. if it’s just a computer you want there’s dramatically better options

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Ghislaine@poa.st@poa.st @Paultron@poa.st parallel ports can be used as GPIO
raspberry pi hardware is supremely mid, what you're buying into is the "ecosystem" (also mid)

Wanderer atop the sea of clouds or whatever
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I was going to ask "what about analog out" but apparently the RPi5 still doesn't have this. Even though arduino did forever. As does ESP32.