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by james-clef 66 days ago
Something in me wants to buy every SBC and/or microcontroller that is advertised to me.
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3abiton 66 days ago
Even though all can be replaced by a decent mini pc with beefy memory, with lots of VMs.
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nomel 65 days ago
Yeah, I ended up using an old mac mini for my Home Assistant needs. It draws a whopping 7W from the wall at idle (and it's near always idle), but the price of a new RPi is the same as 13k hours of electric usage for this.

Using whatever compute you have sitting in a drawer usually makes the most sense (including an old phone).

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thesh4d0w 65 days ago
SBC is good for usbip endpoints for those vms. I use them to push devices around my home network.
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hypercube33 66 days ago
Yeah I have this problem (?) too. They are just so neat. I also really like tiny laptops and recreations of classic computers.
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junon 66 days ago
Clockwork Pi if you haven't seen it. Beautiful little constructions.
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james-clef 65 days ago
These are awesome.
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