Yeah https://zulip.com/ they're actually pretty awesome
So many connectivity options with this board, and I like the size
I see your point but you can call out China's Uyghur genocide while still being against forced labor in other parts of the world.
You can own an idea only insofar as you keep it a secret. Once the idea is out there, it is equally owned by the minds it inhabits. Kinsella has a good argument against IP https://www.stephankinsella.com/publications/against-intellectual-property/ .
Thomas Jefferson on ideas as property: If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
I'm not really sure how it would harm your network if you used an image like Armbian or one of the other respected aarch64 images for it.
I do too. I'm currently using an original Radxa Zero 2GB as a CoreElec media player and with PoE having one less wire would be quite nice.
For watches I like GymRun. I don't take my phone into the gym and the watch functionality mirrors the mobile app on my Samsung and on my Garmin when I had one. Sets, reps, routines, rest time, etc. The main drawback for me is it doesn't sync with Strava natively so I have to sync with S Health which syncs with Strava. Logging your routine is necessary with progressive overload, and this beats pen and paper.
I started using Frigate and thought about going the Coral route but realized you didn't need them if you have a relatively recent Intel CPU (6th gen or newer) as OpenVino with the iGPU is pretty much on par https://github.com/blakeblackshear/frigate/discussions/5742 .
A lot of the newer SBCs are being shipped with integrated NPUs/TPUs now as well. I would get a Coral if I were to use an older SBC or RPi or older PC as a camera server for object detection. Currently I have an ESP32-CAM watching a bird feeder but that feed goes to a modern server for bird species recognition but I could see a Coral as an option.
Marc Singer isn't much younger at 76.
Check out the sidebar. @dragontamer@lemmy.world has written some great guides that should answer your questions. Here's the first one to get you started https://lemux.minnix.dev/post/10943
Are you asking what are microcontrollers in general used for or what this particular microcontroller is used for?
If you're serious about it, yeah I can.