It is part convience and part necessity. My entire infrastructure is currently x86 and introducing ARM into it seems like a hassle, if i develop and test software on my x86 based workstation i expect it to just work then, not having to deal with either compiling to ARM or using emulation. Also part of this that currently everything I use runs Arch, which only officially supports x86.

Which brings us to necessity, my software currently runs with manually written simd instructions. Ofcourse I can write ARM NEON polyfills for these, but again that takes a lot of work.

So while not impossible to use ARM it currently is a lot of work to use. I’m gonna save that time for when the big riscv migration comes.

Does anyone know of a European alternative for a x86 single board pc? I like the pi but it being ARM is a deal breaker for me.

Currently i use Lattepanda and they are great, so if something like that exists but European i would be very thankful.

But you can make this argument for anything that is used to make rich people richer. Even something as basic as pen and paper is used everyday to make rich people richer.

Why attack the technology if its the rich people you are against and not the technology itself.

No?

Anyone can run an AI even on the weakest hardware there are plenty of small open models for this.

Training an AI requires very strong hardware, however this is not an impossible hurdle as the models on hugging face show.