Timeline for Are RaspberryPi's ever on topic for ServerFault?
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 16:28 | comment | added | Dan Pritts | There are definitely "business"/"server" applications of low-cost hardware like the Raspberry Pi. The one that pops immediately to my mind is network monitoring & measurement. In such an application you do not need super robust hardware; you need lots of measurement points at a reasonable cost, and things like the RPi fit the bill nicely. I agree however with @JeffAtwood that it is likely that most RPi questions will be off-topic. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 14:02 | history | edited | Evan Carroll | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 13:58 | comment | added | Evan Carroll | What kind of crap is this, my answer goes gray after three downvotes now? I think @JeffAtwood is out to make this site totally devoid of my useful contributions. Who could read this even if they wanted to? It's like white on white -- this is a UI disaster and a clear case of ableism. The visually impaired must miss a lot when they browse a StackExchange. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 5:43 | history | edited | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 5:42 | comment | added | Wesley | @EvanCarroll I... I... I'm agreeing with you now. Mostly concerning your first comment, and also the "horrible network of sites" quote. Things have gotten out of hand regarding site sprawl. I'm going to edit your question so I can take back my downvote. I see where you're coming from - making a Devil's Advocate answer. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 4:24 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | it probably can be on topic, but I expect that'd be rare in practice. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:55 | comment | added | Evan Carroll | Is the question Ubuntu, ask it on SuperUser, Unix.SE, or Ubuntu.SE, if it has any relation to server software, ask it on ServerFault, unless it has a specific relation to security -- then on Security.SE. Etc. The flow chart is a diagram of who has the most users and the most active community. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:52 | comment | added | Evan Carroll | This largely stems from an even more core issue with this horrible network of sites, and that is the desire to have an explicit community without an explicit mission. All you need is a big circle of friends and a bribe for @JeffAtwood and you can get a SE. Then they try to make sense of it in the FAQ after the matter when they have conflicting interests with established communities. To exacerbate matters, the rule of thumb is self-preservation and not community disambiguation so 95% of this crap is confusingly on topic on multiple StackExchange sites. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:50 | comment | added | Evan Carroll | A great example would be RDP. RDP is just a user-application that just so happens to be ever so slightly more essential to server administration than Notepad. Yet both are explicitly on topic on ServerFault, and SuperUser. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:46 | comment | added | Evan Carroll | @WesleyDavid Enjoy an upvote! That's totally true if you are a logical and sane person. Unfortunately the junta at ServerFault is outside of that desirable category. While I agree with you whole heatedly, they've settled this on the wrong side of the issue. I've played an active role in the core question here which is exactly that -- what is a business use, and time and time again those dingleberries have come down on location of use. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:21 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | I... can't believe I'm saying this, but... oh god help me... I actually think you have a valid point about how we entertain software like vim, etc. I also agree that there are some places where an rpi might make sense. But I also think that these questions are going to be better served elsewhere. As you said, we don't have any intellectual prowess, so we're surely not qualified to actually answer anything | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:18 | comment | added | Wesley | Using something for business doesn't make it a business platform any more than putting on a doctors coat makes you a doctor. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 2:14 | history | answered | Evan Carroll | CC BY-SA 3.0 |