Since rpis have been almost impossible to find, I’ve been looking around for alternatives for some local self hosted services like home assistant. A lot of boards seem to talk about GPU, GPIO pins, etc. But I really just want a single board, fanless (low power), decent CPU and RAM, ethernet.

Any recommendations?

  • mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.de
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    2 years ago

    alternatively any used thin client will do well to. Cost around 50 bucks and has waaaay more power than a pi while not consuming much more.

    • nicman24@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      i prefer the laptop due to impossibility of a brown out / blackout affecting it. it is basically an active ups

      • mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.de
        1·
        2 years ago

        That’s true - as long as the battery does not catch fire :D

        Are you using any charging utility? Like Macbooks are drawing power from Power brick as long as the battery is full. Still they are sometimes discharging to around 50% to keep the cells alive.

        • nicman24@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          nah laptops in the last 5 years have features like that so you dont need to worry about all that. most have them in the bios too so no weird software needed