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by helthanatos 2707 days ago
My thoughts exactly. I was hoping to find something more useful than the same benefits t I'd get from a free azure subscription.
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hnuser1234 2707 days ago
Something about the RPi seems to motivate new hobbyists in ways that hosted VMs just don't.
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jachee 2707 days ago
It's quite difficult to put a sticker on a VM.
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ahje 2707 days ago
Closer to the truth than one might think. The Pi can be tinkered with in the same way one could tinker with an Amiga or an Atari back in the days. You can, of course, tinker around in a Docker container or a VM as well, but they're not physical products and therefore not "real" in the same sense.
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kkarakk 2707 days ago
current gen skilled hobbyists grew up with fancying "physical" objects. a RPi is a physical object manipulating your data. a hosted VM(even if hosted on your own personal machine) doesn't have the same "tactility"
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