I don't know but, I want to buy a Raspberry Pi. I quite good at programming and want to learn a few hardware tricks.
Not expecting much from it but I guess I can program (play) with it.

What can I do with a raspberry pi that I can't do with my laptop already??

you can leave a raspberry pi running for days or weeks on end without it getting annoying or a huge powerbill.

a raspberry pi is just a scaled down computer with some analogue pins directly soldered on the board.

but if hardware is something you want to get into, I'd say that arduino's are pretty fucking cool.

@balte do you think buying a starter kit of Arduino is fine.

I have no idea, but I bought one last night to see what this little guy can do.

Pi-hole looks interesting
Retropi looks awesome?

As the pi site says, you should start by buying one 😏

a lot of things you can do with a pi you can't do with a pc and vice versa.

i recently built a bartop arcade using raspberry and some hw lots of fun working with sbcs

I think the main thing you can do with the Raspberry much more easily is controlling some general purpose IO pins (gpio).
That means that you can read from and write to physical pins, e.g to read sensor data (temp,...) or control actuators (servos, LEDs,...) and do some "heavy" computing on the data (in comparison to a arduino for example)
But most use the Raspberry to build a small sized server, NAS, etc. which is also nice but could also done (easily) with a "normal" PC ;)

You can do awesome hardware stuff with an easy to use Phyton library.

Its much more compact than a laptop which makes it easier to stuff down very fucking annoying peoples throats.

@balte You're right. I started on Arduino a few months back and I just fuckin' love it. The possibilities really are endless

@Haxk20 thanks for getting me to 70K!