Uses for a raspberry pi 3?

Host a server.

No, $50 will do if you already have an old mouse and keyboard, and I know you do. All you need to get started is the pi ($35) and a class 20 SD card and 3A 5V supply (you can squeeze this into $15 with careful shopping).

No, I buy them to resell and I never see them "laying around"

3+ and latest pi retrocade can indeed

*class 10 SD card
That's what I get for typing while eating

If you're the dude from the BSD thread the other day, I got that board by now, setting it up with gentoo/a nice 1600x1200 screen I had standing around. Currently working out how to access the nand it has. Thanks for the advice!

there are nice USB power supplies that won't burn your house down and can supply 5V to 5-8 devices at once. They're totally worth the money, just buy a good one.

Is it really an issue if you aren't going to connect it and you're just using it for retroarch?

This still doesn't justify being able to buy a compaq for even less, which can run games from an even higher generation.

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when the use case is retro vidya or htpc, there is no need to buy such shit as rpi3 which is botnet anyway, with the blobs it requires to operate. And you have cables everywhere, keyboard, mouse, sd cards to buy if you don't have them already.
For the same price, you can get a used TP x220 (with intel HD3000 igpu) which will serves fine as cheap htpc or retro vidya machine. You can even flash it to coreboot with intelme removed (almost)
rpi3 and others always seemed like soyboy things to me.

I have two, one for shitposting and the other for a pi hole.

these bait threads also appear on cuck chan, I think they're made by worried Intel employees. Intel has failed to dent the Pi market even though they've spent hundreds of millions on low power SBCs. Same as their failure to dent the phone market.

arm is kinda shit at Linux support, at least most of these boards are. There's often some important part missing or hidden in some blob/modified kernel source targeted at some terribly outdated 3.x kernel.

Intel has the only advantage that, as any x86 in Linux, it just works. The power consumption isn't that good though, nor will it ever be. Also you could argue they're even blobbier than some ARM SoCs as there are actually quite a few ARM SoCs that'll run without blobs or firmware, just not with all capabilities, which hasn't been true for all x86s for a while now.

What sucks is that the fucking Pi boots it's CPUs through proprietary blob which you could argue is just as bad as any x86 UEFI board. I'm not one of those fags that is about conspiracy theories but that there is basically no system with mass appeal who doesn't do this kind of bullshit really kinda makes you wonder about some overarching agenda.

Can't help you with the NAND, I pretty much just ignored it for now. I'm hoping that it's possible to shove at least u-boot on there though, so I can boot laptop HDD without needing an empty micro SD inserted, since board won't boot directly from HDD. Other boards like the ones by Olimex have SPI flash where you can shove all the boot stuff, so that's pretty convenient and a lot simpler to deal with compared to NAND. Anyway that's all on hold until I get my 3A power supply.

I guess not, if it has no network, including wifi and bluetooth. For me the point was to have a general-purpose computer and get away from Intel. It's not perfect, but the best I can do for now.

ARM requires a lot of research on your part, that's true. But these are called "dev boards" for a reason. With the exception of the RPi (and maybe a few others like Sheevaplug), you're expected to know what you're getting into. I think the blobs in the RPi are just general Broadcom shittiness, but yeah it does seem like anything that's designed to be or ends up popular becomes subverted.