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[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 year ago (3 children)

what is my purpose?

"You're a VPN and you filter ads via DNS."

fucking sweet, man. Glad I'm not an emulation console.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

(to my NAT gateway) "You pass the packets."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Are you me?

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I setup a k8s rpi cluster for this reason, and now I just have 4 overloaded pis 🙃

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could you not just actually build a dedicated PC for that price? Lol

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

But then he won't have a k8s rpi cluster

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

This is the real reason

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

and the power consumption adds up, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Pis are only 5W, right? 4 of them should still add up to about as much as a midweight laptop.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is true. Really annoyed that arm as a hole isn't being utilized like it could be by really anyone but apple. We could be making arm Linux powerhouses that sip power like a mid tier x86 laptop. The worry by some is that there is now way to do this without having every component solderd on, but dell has already made a new open laptop ram slot standard that has almost the same latency as Apple's soldered ram.

Arm is the future, and needs to be treated as such more than it is.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I do also have a dedicated PC as a NAS, the rpi cluster was more for learning. And k8s does provide some cool flexibility

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Does nobody else cobble together home servers with spare parts any more?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spare parts don't run on 5-10 watts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spare parts can also do a heck of a lot more.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Everything is a trade-off ;-)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yep i do, amd phenom x6 with 8gb of ram is still rocking!

but not for long, i have too many services for the ram and it swaps too much.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A cheap used office computer with a good CPU and decent RAM can far exceed the power of a Pi. That's been my strategy. I just Frankenstein it a bit with leftover parts from my gaming computer and load it up with disks.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

RPI: Actually dying

Me: Gitlab time

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sweet baby Jesus. Reminds me of folks running Lemmy on them and wondering why their SD card is always failing 😅

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I was running lemmy on it too until a few days ago. I had an SSD for the database though.
oh and the gitlab instance was the straw that broke the camel's back for the Pi, I ended up going with forgejo instead.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Slap a USB NVMe IN there and be done with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

lol. Sir, I only have 4 cores and 8GB

YOU DONT KNOW ME SON

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same, but it does a pretty shitty job at everything I throw at it as a result. Might pick up a refurbished m1 Mac mini and put asahi on it. They are relatively cheap these days.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I have one of these things, though a slightly older model.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Note: I ask this from a place of complete ignorance, having never owned a machine with Apple silicon…this is just for my own curiosity. With that said:

Is it better to put something like Asahi on there than to leave it MacOS? Obviously, if we could have fully-featured and fully-optimized Linux running on the M1, that would be ideal, but I worry that a port like this would be pretty janky for a quite a long time while they reverse engineer everything

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can run most docker applications on the m1 on macOS just fine. I use it for anything a rpi would do and more.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have an m1 MacBook Air, and I can say that asahi runs very well these days. It’s definitely not done yet but it’s useable and much much better than macOS for server applications. They have a gpu driver now and everything base-Linux runs flawlessly ime. MacOS is still needed for updating firmware etc, however I would feel completely comfortable using asahi on it as using macOS for such things is a hassle. Docker and podman are just imperfect and not fun to use ime.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I so feel this meme… and just putting it out there that there’s a good chance that pretty soon NUCs are likely to be deeply on sale.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shit, I just realized my NAS is less powerful than a modern Pi. It's only a dual core, 1.6GHz Atom with 1.8GB ram.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not even nearly as powerful as a pi 4. At least on paper

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I see myself in this picture, and I don't like it 😂😂😂 that's why I'm running 2 pi's 😁 photoprism, pihole, pivpn, unbound, portainer, and multiple HDD setup with cron jobs as a nas, and another pi with heimdal, pihole, pivpn. Unify controller, NUT server...... Prob forgetting some lpl, Looking to add a lot more docker containers..... So ya..... This meme got me in the feels lol

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is why I bought myself a server (consumer pc with 40TB) that does all that for only 1000€

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I used an old laptop I had with a broken screen. Werks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I used to have my own server for 4 years. It was my personal compute with virtual machine and 10TB. Then I checked my electricity bill, it was so expensive I rebase everything on a single RockPro64 with a raid 1. Hardware budget is not that expensive, but you should definitly calculate how much electricty will weighs on your house budget

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am I the only person that thinks this meme doesn't make sense? Hulk's giving Antman tacos because Antman lost his tacos and would very much appreciate the generous offer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

yeah, its ironic

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can anyone tell me of I can run a Plex server and a pi hole on the new raspberry 8gig ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yes, but I would recommend transcoding everything for direct play before putting it on the server

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Or just disable transcoding and play in full quality

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im running jellyfin and pihole on a 4gb and have not encountered any issues. 8gb should be more than enough

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably? I believe the pihole is pretty low resource. I have mine on a Zero.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've got an old PowerEdge tower server sitting in my basement that I picked up for $300 on eBay. Dual 6-core Xeons. It's running probably 7 Ubuntu VM's in Hyper-V and not even breaking a sweat. Still need to get the GPU passthrough for Jellyfin configured though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eating $70 in power a month.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It might if it were really working hard but at idle it draws around 160 watts.

Edit: I was close. 140 watts.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

All you need is Lemmy.

Lemmy is Love.

Lemmy is Life.

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