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• jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Much as I love Pis and ARM, unless you are doing something with GPIOs/hardware, you might be better off getting a second hand thin client PC, like a Dell Wyse.

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  • Rosco@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I was actually thinking of buying a ThinkCentre or an Optiplex, but I’ll have to see. It’s just a project that I have for the moment. It would be fun to tinker with the hardware of the Pi though, I’ve seen so many cool stuff you can do with it.

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    • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yer Pis are good for lots of stuff, just not such great home servers. Bit under powered for the money and not good for disks. I’m still a bit grumpy they aren’t more of a normal ARM device with U-Boot. Yes I know you can add U-Boot, but it has it’s own (closed) fat boot loader, rather than something minimal as normal.

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      • Rosco@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah clearly not the optimal choice here, but I think it’s enough for my use-case. The form factor is also something I can appreciate, as I move around quite a bit. When I’ll get a more permanent home, I’ll definitively take something more appropriate

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