It's probably irrelevant for the 1-executable no WAN use case, but the sheer price they are paying for even a dirt cheap board that can run the full gnome environment vs...like, a raspberry pi...blows the mind.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

I'm running a full version of Ubuntu on my Orange Pi 5 Plus, which is roughly the same as a Raspberry Pi 5 and it runs fine, so that thing could easilly be hardware in same class of power as a Raspberry Pi 5 or entry level intel Mini-PC and run Ubuntu.

That said, it would still be an SBC that costs about $120.

In my experience, a $40 SBC can't run more than Armbian and would be better off with a lightweight distro running a lighter window manager.