On 02/22/2015 12:34 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
The hardware and software curves crossed about ten years ago, so it's logical that the hardware devices would get smaller and more specialized. The only thing I'm afraid of is that they're headed toward "appliance" status, where each "strawberry Pi", "Pecan Pi", etc. is limited to a single burned-in capability that can never be changed.
Ironic that as we march away from general purpose computers, we are getting a splash from such a wonderfully general purpose computer.
Compared to a phone where hacking ranges from difficult to possibly illegal, this little beast is nearly wide open. (Okay, the Broadcom chip is not publicly documented and binary blobs are needed to use much of it, but still...)
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