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I generally agree, there are a few places I'll throw a pi, because it's small and easy to set up and just hack something.. Like a print/scan server or an easy way to get a microphone or webcam hooked up to the LAN..

But a lot of times, an ESP8266 or even just ATmega part is just fine.. other times, some old laptop or PC is way better..

Currently, my only Pis in operation is the Pi400 on the living-room TV for retropie, and the one attached to the printer and scanner to network those without having to install weird stuff on the windows/linux clients