Innovative ideas are rarely smart ideas.

You completely missed the point there, damn. He’s saying those things are very likely to be bad investments.

If you’re really worried about power use, you could switch to an itx motherboard with an soc laptop chip in it.

He probably killed himself because

Using someones suicide to preach about your own personal cause is a dick move.

Is it $60 or less? Everytime one of these alternative boards with an assload of more features pops up, nobody bothers to mention the price. Obviously we could spend more money to get more features, that’s what spending more money does. You can’t replace something without actually offering an alternative. The pi’s biggest selling point was that it was cheaper than a steak dinner. If you dont match or beat that, you aren’t actually competing with the pi.