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amazing why? so you can have that sweet sweet compatibility with Windows 3.11? or access to cutting edge BCD opcodes? maybe its the price point of 4x faster ARM SoCs? or 1Wat at idle when connected to a network?

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There's something wrong with the claim of "1Watt idle when connecting to a network", since the maximum power of that module is 1Watt at full performance.

Maybe the person who measured this hasn't used sleep modes properly?

Amazing because a bunch of already existing tools could be used immediately, that's why.

Good to see you understand the purpose and design constraints oh so well...

what tools do you mean? other than binary only windows applications that you wouldnt run anyway because there is no GPU on this thing(unless you manage to install headless windows).

apt-get whatever works just fine on arm

Just because the source is available doesn't mean the tool is portable, or even ported. You won't be able to apt-get install afl-fuzz (the tool used in this article) on Arm.

coincidently you wont be able to download afl-fuzz in binary form either, because only the source is available, so your argument is what?

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