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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?

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[–] PopYaCork@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I gave up on using raspberry pi for running servers.

I ended up buying a $60 lenovo on ebay https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m710q-tiny-guide-and-ce-review/2/ and then loaded it up with 32GB of ram. Now I run a proxmox hypervisor and around 20+ containers/VMs. Best decision I ever made. I just spin up servers willy nilly

If you don't need GPIO then run a hypervisor. Cheaper than SBCs and more useful.

[–] orangeboats@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use a pi for servers because of the assumption that it uses very little power to run (compared to say, an old unused laptop), is that not the case?

[–] PopYaCork@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Sure, but I just told you I'm running over 20 servers. Try running 20 raspberry pi's 😀

My resources are being shared for around 20W of power.