A policy like r/monero's makes a lot of sense. It's like the tolerance/intolerance paradox - you can't be so anti-censorship that you let randos flood a space and drown out everyone else's voice (thus censoring everyone else). There's a line between informative and abusive posting frequency.
Amazing that they finally quit being cheapskates and decided to pay for the crypto instruction extension that every other ARM producer in the world has included for the past 8 years already. I wonder what changed their minds.
So it's another Broadcom chip quadcore with only 2MB L3 cache. I.e., only enough cache to run a single RandomX thread. The other cores will be wasted.
These have always been and continue to be worthless junk. For practical use these days you need closer to 4GB RAM per core, and of course 2MB cache per core. This thing only has enough resources to utilize 1 core.
They're CPUs. They can just roll out a firmware update and be up and running again.
Anyone who's been in software development long enough should know that the majority of total rewrite projects fail. Like 99% of the time. Community members throwing money at this proposal might as well be burning their cash.