Date: 2025-05-13

The best computer for humans Raspberry Pi 5
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Why is the Raspberry Pi 5 currently the best computer available on the
market for humans? How it stands compared to all more powerful and
standard mainstream alternatives?

First of all, the reality check. Raspberry Pi 5 is a commercial
product. It is not some magic or something that will make you wet.
It was made probably not to make your life better or more enjoyable,
but for the profit. It's just option you have now.
Yet still compared to everything else available on the market it is
the most human friendly computer.

Raspberry Pi 5 is probably not the best price to performance ratio.
It is also not the most powerful or the fastest or the cheapest thing.
It does not have something really special, some killing feature,
advanced technology. It's also not the most stable, the most reliable,
durable computer. It does not really shine in anything particular.

Still it is one of the best computer you as human can get. It's well
balanced. Overall package is good choice for you. It has everything
you need for your human limited computing. It is powerful enough that
you can use current multitab hydras like Scrollzila and Chromeosaurus
and watch some random senseless video about why you should buy new
shiny Mac mini M4 which already includes the most dramatic operating
system macOS, which in turn includes new non-binary emojis like never
before. 

You just write some operating system image into your microSD card,
USB flash drive or NVMe SSD and you are in the game. Then you can
start to turning off some nonsense like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and you
will be in a good shape.

Official documentation on RaspberryPi website is extensive, accurate,
up to date and well structured and readable. There is a big community
online, so you will find many information around it on the internet.
If you don't care and can survive SystemDoom the easiest way to start
is to get official Raspberry Pi OS, Debian based operating system. If
you don't want to die for cancer you will likely get something more
sane and light like Alpine Linux. Obviously minimal system has its own
special funny moments compared to fully bloated and optimized official
BloatbianD derivative.

If you need some more operating system choices for a server right now
or you are one of those nine Plan 9 heroes you have to check Raspberry
Pi 4. The price is almost the same as Raspberry Pi 5.

Back to the point. Raspberry Pi 5 is currently the the most human
centered and usable computer. It empowers you as individual with human
limited computing, rather than some corporation. The performance is
good for personal computing. It's ready, working machine, not some
alpha trial test. You get fully capable desktop class tiny machine you
can put into your pocket. It is low powered, silent single-board
computer that will not give you headache.

Limited human computing teaches you to stay within healthy human space
of computing. This point is probably the most important. It is
powerfull enough to do everything you need, but it can hardly take
advantage of others by parasiting on them. One machine can be your
desktop, your server running 24/7, some special automation tool or
just a toy. It covers all human cases. It is capable of many tasks,
it's flexible and modular computer and that is rare. You can easily
extend it and change its purpose for other case as you planned. You
can afford it. It has big community, not just some user base.

Raspberry Pi 5 encourages thoughtful computing, fewer tabs, fewer
distractions, more doing. Maybe it's time to replace algorithm with
intelligence behind the terminal. The most powerful feature is you.
The future is not artificial, it is personal. It's not about smarter
machines, it's about smarter you.

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Algorithm? Nah. I've got a terminal and questionable confidence.