maybe what makes more sense is stabilising and repairing my current devices.

my olimex teres, raspberry pi, redhat system, or phone. these are all having issues themselves.

notably, it seems quite hard to get an x86 system or vm running to test my serialice patch.

it's also nice to work with something like the arduino, because there are so few places it can fail. the task would be to stabilise further its use as a programmer.