Sorry for the ignorance, but what makes the pi so good? I was watching "God Friended Me" and they're making it out to be some super-hacking device that can break into DARPA
Its a reasonably great microcomputer that covers all the bases, and at a super low price.
The Pi4 is a quad core ARM with 4 gigs ram that could replace your laptop, if you had a TV screen nearby and used your smartphone as the keyboard/mouse.
Or had a keyboard/mouse. The thing outputs full 1080, has an ethernet jack, a couple usb inputs and an SD card slot.
As opposed to the alternative.. *looks at this previously 400$ laptop that sadly has as much power as that 80ish$ Pi4*
People make emulation distros, set top media player type distros, just about anything. And the fact that it fits into an altoids can is, like.. cute? lol