I'm starting to wonder if we're seeing the ramping up of an Arm vs. Intel war at the same level as Mac vs. Windows, or emacs vs. vi, with Raspberry Pi as a convenient proxy, and all the usual foibles of every other us vs. them war.

It wouldn't surprise me if paid influencers were fanning the flames, either; certain folks have a lot to lose if arm goes mainstream on the desktop.

And then there's the recent Raspberry P-IPO or whatever it was, which seems to have pissed a bunch of people off...

The timing is interesting.

I can see the appeal of the N100 and similar -- and am currently considering one -- but it's hard to beat the ~1W DNS/DHCP/Consul servers that have been humming away in this house trouble free for the last decade...

I don't need those to power my homelab. There's a reason they're separate, and tiny low-power Pi's are ideal for that job.

I have in my possession more than merely a hammer. :)