Two lxc’s, one pi 3b.

Here are a few of my favorites, some of which are exposed, some are not:

• Mealie - Recipe management. Import recipes by URL is my favorite feature, then I tweak and try it out (I have to be gluten free, so this makes it easy to track what worked for us).
• Homepage - a homepage to put quick links to all of my stuff, neat and clean.
• Grafana - for visualization of current data of my systems, paired with Prometheus.
• Technitium DNS - for all of my DNS needs.
• Jellyfin - for all my media, let’s me pick out what my kids can see/watch without me having to look over their shoulder, along with being a great looking solution for me.
• Immich - photo and video management

All of these (and more, this is just a dsmple of favorites) run on Proxmox. I mostly use LXC over docker, personal preference.

Home Assistant is probably the single most useful for me, already mentioned, just about everything at home is automated/controlled through there.

Apache guacamole plus your own libreoffice install maybe?

Yes you can. You select what it is at import.

I’d also suggest not setting up your torrent client (or not enabling it) u til you’ve finished your import, and setting what you are monitoring and what you are not.

This way you can just import, and enable/disable monitoring of items easily before you start any new downloads.

FYI, now that tteck has passed, the new home is:

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

Tiny/mini/micro.

You can grab a used box for under $200. Most I’ve picked up have been around $100-$125, then I drop in a new m.2 for the host, maybe add/change ram depending on what I got it with.

Data lives on the NAS (really multiple for me, but besides the point here), and you’ll get waaaayyyyy more compute with a usff PC like that than you will with a pi or what a NAS can offer. They also run really light on power when you aren’t putting the CPU to work, so budget friendly in a bunch of ways.

I’ve got a goal after a move my wife and I are planning to run the whole shebang on solar, with battery and a switch to utility power. I’ve got 10 of these little monsters now, after a recent addition, and its quite doable from my measurements of actual power usage.

Which is a really long way of saying you may want to look at some tiny/mini/micro PCs.

I don’t do drm’d content, its all coming from JF so ive got random assortments in various parts of my home. An apple TV, a roku, a regular chromecast, a Chromecast with google TV dongle, and a lenovo m90q with a launcher running arch/KDE.

With the other comments since, yeah not a bot. Early on with the long gap, then a post and the same commen t being the only comment - yeah that looks like a bot.

Its not an indictment of them, just observation.

I don’t think a copy/paste answer comes across as appreciation, no.

It comes across weird, especially on a low activity account, and seems like a bot response that got stuck.

No posts/c9mments in like a year and a half, then this… I’d guess yes.

Personally I avoid external enclosures for data - they can be finicky in many scenarios.

Are you looking to only have one machine, or is it an option to keep the one you have as well? You could put the more intensive stuff on the new machine, and keep the existing as the data store (and maybe lightweight service stuff, like DNS or homepage or whatever).

I’d even say equivalent load - but again, I dont support the foundation, wouldn’t buy a 5 in the first place.

I’d still say you’re better off with a t/m/m even with a few watts of savings.

At least as far as my setup, yeah. Ive got 5th-10th gens, under high loads I’ll see a spike to 80+ watts, the highest is 170W but those have nvidia quadros in them.

Edit: For gpio now I’ll just use an esp32 or something instead.

My only pi usage these days is work stuff, and orangepi is supported there. In terms of arm, also Jetson, but that’s kind of outside the discussion here.

Only at idle.

At peak the sff PCs are going to be at least triple the ~30W of the pi 5.

Edit: You’ll get way more out of the sff though, which is what I was saying. Tiny/mini/micro is my entire self hosted environment (as well as lab and work setup for the most part).

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/15641213

Hired a cop who used pi’s for surveillance tech, when people mentioned being uncomfortable, they were flippant, blocked people, etc. Gross behavior IMO.

Pricing has made a complete shift from consumer friendly cheap boards over to pricing that can be beat by x86 hardware (even full blown cheap laptops).

The foundation has changed, and I just dont support it. You can make your own call of course, this is just my decision.

Edit: I should note, I hold grudges. For a loooooong time. I still dont forgive Apple for lying about a battery issue in an iPod mini being a board issue, just to give you an idea for how long I can be an asshole about things I don’t like.

Ive got very specific needs when it comes to pi-alikes, so I can only speak to how ive used it.

I still won’t support the pi foundation though.

Sure, depends on needs of course. Just saying I can see how someone could arrive at a better price point than a pi with more performance.

Just not more per watt (except in more burst demanding scenarios).

The pi foundation lost a lot of goodwill with me though, so I stick to the alternatives (orangepi for example) if I need one.

Edit: I a whole word.

I think it would be irresponsible to go back to it in light of the developments since the purchase.

Absolutely agree. I’m actually shifting client hardware over from VMWare, last one is slated for end of Jan actually.

Laptops I’d say are more problematic because the hardware choices are usually less standard stuff and more whatever cheap bits they can shove in, I think the worst recent issue though with a (lenovo) thinkpad was brightness controls not working. So I used ahkx11, AFAIK no Wayland support yet, but that’s fine for the like 8 or 9 year old laptop its on (now my wife’s laptop).

I have a tendency to stick to the CLI for… Just about everything tbh, but regarding the shutdown bit, startup order and delay is the reverse for the shutdown process, no scripting needed if your issue is just proper sequencing.

And I get it, a bunch of my hardware has been getting decommissioned hardware one way or the other! I just mostly take home the little desktops most buy these days (can’t wait to get a couple of the slightly fat ones for my rack, those little guys are monsters).

Pi 5 desktop kit is like $150 isn’t it?

Yeah you can beat that performance and price with some used hardware. Will cost more in power though.