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Re:Ask HN: Did you find something to use your Raspberry Pi 4... by Annatar on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:09AM (#29378886)
...Which would just perpetuate the PC-bucket monoculture.

At our software company we used to use PlayStation 3 as a development server running YellowDog Linux. Just testing our RPM .spec files was a gargantuan eye opener as to how many things we got wrong when we'd try rpmbuild --rebuild on YellowDog, and just because we'd write the .spec file on a PC-bucket server running CentOS. Monoculture is an extremely toxic, blinding thing, and it breeds ignorance.

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Re:Ask HN: Did you find something to use your Raspberry Pi 4... by charcircuit on Monday November 29, 2021 @07:56AM (#29379264)
If you only plan on supporting one platform it's okay if there are bugs on other problems. You have to make assumptions when making software and it's hard to know if some random platform breaks one of those assumptions.
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