raspberry pis are kinda really bad devices for homeserver use but not using the perfectly fine hardware you already have and thatd work for a given purpose is cringe
@reia im in the advantageous position of having already known that they're crap before ive ever had a need so instead i get to salivate at all the cheap as fuck intel xeon cpus while ignoring that the cost is in the motherboard
@coolbean still , the tdp of some modern arm chips ... really , we need arm-based nucs / other miniature pcs , and it will get two of them for eighty bucks each off ebay , and have its server hardware needs satisfied for the next decade or two
@reia strongly agreed. sadly an rpi is the closest we're getting until someone bothers making snapdragon x work right (or i guess a mac mini? a mac mini could work)
@coolbean@reia i thought about it........ only issue would be not being able to use the gpu for hardware acceleration on Linux, which would make it a beefed up rpi (in All Ways, no good gpu accel, needing to plug in hdds via USB etc.)
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