[Grombobulous]

Basically, my point is that for the use case of “touch screen on a wall,” you can grab something modest like a 4GB Raspbery Pi 5 for over $110 with no screen, power supply, enclosure, etc.

Or you look at a mini PC and you really can’t buy one at all for much less than $200 these days. Again, no screen.

But Apple will sell you a refurbished iPad mini for $379 and you’ve got nothing to setup.

I share your concern about running it with the battery all the time, but I think it’s pretty common. I probably wouldn’t put it in my wall but I know of a place of business I frequent often that has one plugged in 24/7 and nothing has happened.

Apple power manages devices that are plugged in all the time, they’ll likely just park the battery at 80%. They are also about as good as you can get as far as hardware quality: Apple sells a bazillion devices and has definitely thought of fire risk.

The other benefit of the iPad is that the accessory ecosystem is vast.