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They are a hard sell over tiny x86 systems still. Even my 3d printers don't use the gpio and the only thing I have used it for before, which is flashing coreboot to a laptop, is no longer needed both due to having a USB device for it as well as flasher only actually being needed the first time and some edge cases.
Most server things I just run vms on xcp-ng and containers on the vms. I'm also trialling nixos on some netbooks that were free for some misc stuff like home automation.
For me it’s about power consumption. I wish there were more powerful arm based socs available. x86 is so inefficient compared to anything risc based that it feels wasteful.
Exactly, for me RPI was supposed to be about low power consumption. Rpi4 is stretching it already, rpi5 with cooling won't be worth it .