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?

  • nicman24
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    31 year ago

    a cheap second hand laptop will be both faster and will have better wattage and what is basically an internal UPS

    • mirisbowring
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      21 year 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
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        11 year ago

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

        • mirisbowring
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          11 year 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
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            21 year 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