[rusteh1]

I'm using an Acer laptop that must be 15 years old for pfsense, never misses a beat, built in UPS! I've got a second laptop, a MacBook air from 2012 running a bunch of containers for Plex, hassio, etc. Works fine. I've got it all in a 19" rack I built out of wood. World's cheapest homelab. Haven't changed it in years.

[2Gkashmiri]

funny that i have been trying to get my solar inverter data into homeassistant and i have already burned through 3 Raspberry pi 3b+ for some reason. i do not know is it because of a bad rs-232 to usb cable or because i am using a mobile charger to run the pi itself. i have a 2b but the wifi signal isnt great on the usb dongle so for the time being nothing is working. i do not want to use a full desktop/laptop because of power considerations

[rusteh1]

Ha, I did have hassio running on a pi, but it killed the SD card twice. Apparently a common issue just due to to the volume of writes...

[e3bc54b2]

People should really stop using SD cards for anything halfway important with Pi's. They are proven again and again to be just ticking time bombs. With new Pi being able to boot from USB just fine, get an SSD even if it costs more.