Oh yeah

It was the other way around.

I remember the threads and how the pi people shilled the zero.

But with that said, the CHIP uses R8 CPU, I'd go with a H3

now they released an arm64 budget CPU too

Eh, I'll probably go with an Orange Pi PC for emulation.

be careful about support

Link to that budget cpu?

Support? Why.

here http://linux-sunxi.org/H3

Raspi has awesome software support

Does the Orange Pi implode often or?

people here are mostly making kernel by community effort

the reason I recommend the H3 is this in particular

Mainline status

U-Boot already supports the H3 SoC at least since 2016.01-rc3 and has defconfigs for Orange Pi PC and Xunlong Orange Pi Plus boards.
Also initial H3 patches have been submitted to the mainline kernel, but have not landed yet. Currently you can find the patches in the arm-linux mailing list, or alternatively in one of the work-in-progress kernel forks:

Its the only newer chink SoC which are abotu guaranteed to have a mainline kernel push

Oh, that's cool.

Well, you said 15 bucks, right?

Do you know where I can find a nice case for it?

I would just take their bundle, I ordered the one with case, USB to DC-IN cable and the board

Took my own power brick to power it and ofc

From Ali?

yeah, the package was quite smashed up

but it was packed in anti-static and no pins had any damage

been running for months, at first I was a tad bit scared

I dont think GB is gonna sell that any cheaper

than on ali

You also need a HQ flash card, have a shark? You'll be safe

I have 32 gb micro sd laying around

I ain't gonna use my 128 shark on a micro pc.

haha ofc not

Haha

I use 16gb one more than enough

What do you do with it?

runs NAS

Basically the thing has above 5 TB storage hooked up

so flash memory isnt my biggest worry

Ah fuck

If I wanted I could format the sdcard to just be a boot partition

and boot it up from the hard drive

yeah that works perfectly fine