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I realised a while ago that it's way cheaper to hunt for second-hand intel NUCs, and the resulting machine is way more powerful... And the RAM and storage is upgradeable, if the NUC didn't come with plenty of storage or RAM already...
Basically the only benefit the Pi has is GPIO pins for embedded projects.
Which a $3 ESP32 can handle instead.
Yup. If you really need GPIO + any real power, either go with an ARM board from AliExpress or do NUC + ESP32 with a serial connection between them.