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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by Nursie on Monday February 11, 2019 @03:11AM (#19132789)
Eh, my experience with the orange pi zero was similar. But then I've been playing with debian on embedded boards since the NSLU2 days, so I guess I'm probably a little blind to the challenges.

Any build that doesn't start with a multimeter, a soldering iron and a TTL->USB cable is pretty straightforward...

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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by classic959 on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:37AM (#19134729)
I used the 'slug' (NSLU2) to run my first NAS. For me, that was a great introduction to setting up useful linux devices on my home network.

(A wee pang of nostagia there when I saw it mentioned)

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Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store by Nursie on Monday February 11, 2019 @12:39PM (#19136298)
Nice, I had two slugs. The community and Wiki were awesome. I eventually ended up adding a page about soldering a USB wireless card on to one of the unused USB headers on one. The other ran my website and an email server.

Happy days :)

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