Taasz/Woof

Yeah a voltage regulator would be a bad idea, however a well designed DC-DC buck converter can be in the 95%+ efficiency range and produce very little heat.

The Pi can actually be higher in some cases in my experience.

I have a pair of passively cooled PCs with i3-7100u CPUs, RAM, and a single NVMe drive each, and they draw around 1-2W when idle.

Digikey has the official espressif dev boards, if you want decent quality ones.

Yeah I see a lot of projects where people are trying to use Pi’s for things better served by an x86 box with a low power CPU or similar.

For now at least, google will likely remove that option in the future.

uBlock Origin too if you don’t already have it.

Yeah from what I’ve seen OSM is really well filled out over there. I add what I can in my town in the US, but it’s a lot to keep up with businesses changing hours and whatnot all the time (small town things)