Are you actually chatting with anyone or is that just your authentication?
Something like magic-wormhole (or webwormhole) seems better suited to file transfers, or onetimesecret for shorter chunks of text. Both of which are self hostable.
Cool? I’m seeing $165, but my original comment was based on the article as it existed five months ago. I’m not sure the board was even shipping at that time
It looks like it’s ~$100. But when I’ve used similar SBCs in the past the issue ends up being drivers. Even if something is faster and better specced than a RasPi, you end up outside that ecosystem with very little in the way of support for whatever oddball hardware your board has.
I have it running. Seems to be working fine.
Getting it up and running was a challenge, but once it’s up it seems stable.