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Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 weeks agoAbout tinkering, if you'd be interested at some point in the future, maybe also test something like a more general Linux system with either Kodi or RetroPie? Also maybe, if you have the money, to throw in a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 as the hardware? Think it'd give a nice console-like device.
SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So! I have a pi4 acting as my Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr etc server. (I’m actually debating adding Immich and Synchthing, as well as home CCTV to it’s list of duties).
IME, emulation on the pi is weirdly hit or miss. For example, Dreamcast (Redream) is pretty good! N64 tanks it. Zero chance for PS2 etc… but then it plays Half life and Doom 3 just fine.
I lucked out when I got it - for what you pay for a Pi now, you’d get a lot more out of a NUC or a thinclient. Case in point: a barebones pi5 costs around $150 AUD near me. Literally just the board - no case, no power supply.
For a $150, you could replicate the machine I got, which is orders of magnitude more powerful, with 120gb SSD, power supply etc. And only slightly more power hungry than the pi.
I love my Pi, but that thing is like a box full of cats. Something about the Argon 40 case messes with it. You breath too hard near it, it drops wifi. It spontaneously decided “no RealVNC access for you - come back one year”.
I really need to strip it back to parts and start again, but that’s a job I keep putting off, because it works well enough for what it does.
Wouldn’t want to game on it tho; I actually think even the Google Chromecast outperforms for some stuff.