And there are enough parallels to Linux's stack, I'm thinking about looking through the Linux on Wii project more and comparing how it handles fb issues in comparison. I loved reading this whole post, crazy how many OSes have now been run on the humble Wii!
In the article and my pi-isp project, I use MacProxy Classic to strip heavy stuff from web pages through a local proxy service running on the Pi. This helps a lot, but if a page has 20 MB of resources, it can only do so much (without completely disabling JS and images).
There were proxies in the old day that would recompress images and do other things, but if the 20 MB is compressed javascript, there's not much you can do but hope it caches well.
Timeouts are killer too... many modern apps assume slow or no response for more than 10 or 20 seconds is "Internet is down" and will stop trying.
It's brutal, even with modern Internet, when people develop apps with the assumption of the Internet connection always having decent latency and bandwidth.
A few, until their current stocks run out. Orange Pi already increased prices (their boards are similar price or more expensive than equivalent Pi's now), and Radxa seems to just stop selling certain models (at least in NA) once they run out of stock.
Arduino has one of the cheapest 4GB boards now, but I wonder if it's just because they made a ton and the demand for their strange board has been low?
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