This is exactly what I have done, but with 12" fans instead. It works exceptionally well and you are not locked into any ecosystem. For aesthetics, as everyone is crying about it, maybe one can 3D print a case for it.

I still do not see the prices coming down much as the demand for GPUs on the lower end is still pretty high.

What would it take to make it work for something like a microcontroller? It may not have all the features but having your IoT devices communicate via secure network with automatic traversal is ideal to me. Can be ported to routers as well other than openwrt.

Realistically, the 'claim space' service needs to run when the OS 'thinks' it has run out of space to reclaim it. And there can be M amount of waiting time for this and N number of issues that may arrive with it.

This is the most funny thing I read today!

Fun bugs in missiles are sometimes unfun.

https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html