So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers?

I dunno when it happened but I swear SBCs were the new best thing in the universe for a while and everyone was building cool little servers with their RockPis and OrangePis.

Now it’s all gone x86 and Proxmox with everyone shitting on Arm. What happened? What gives?

Is my small army of xPis pointless? What about my 2 Edge routers?

I’ve got about 6 xPis scattered round my flat - is there anything worth doing with them or should I just bin them?

All thoughts, feelings and information welcome. Thank you.

ikidd, (edited )
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

I’m just going to say, I shit on them all along. ARM is relatively expensive, bespoke and difficult to compile for because of that. Anyone can puke out a binary for amd64 that works everywhere. And way, way faster than some sad little SOC. Especially weird is spending $1000 on a clusterboard with CMs that had half of the power of a 5 year old X86 SFF desktop you could pick up for $75 and attach some actual storage to.

Maybe RISC-V will change all that, but I doubt it. Sure hope so though. The price factor has already leaned the right way to make it worthwhile.

spez_,

I have 1 RPI 4 (8GB RAM) running:

  • OpenMediaVault
  • Transmission
  • ArchiveBox & LinkWarden (testing between the two)
  • Gitea
  • Audiobookshelf
  • FileBrowser
  • Vaultwarden
  • Jellyfin
  • Atuin
  • Joplin
  • Paperless-NGX
  • Immich

On another RPI (4GB) I have Home Assistant

cashews_best_nut,

Your Pi runs all that?! I’ve setup Homeassistant on a Tinkerboard and it’s slow as shit with nothing else running. :(

owenfromcanada,
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.world avatar

Not sure what kind of tinker board you’re working with, but the power of Pis has increased exponentially through its generations. There are tasks that would run slowly on a dedicated Pi2 that ran easily in parallel with a half dozen other things on a Pi4.

The older ones can still be useful, just for less intensive tasks.

RootBeerGuy,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Out of interest from someone with an Rpi4 and Immich, did you deactivate the machine learning? I did since I was worried it will be too much for the Pi, just curious to hear if its doable or not after all.

JohnFoe, (edited )

If you’re not into the whole Google Home/Alexa/Apple Home echo system, and have Home Assistant already running, you could use them to build a bunch of smart assistants with Open Thread Border Routers.

I was just looking at doing this in my house but the cost of Pis vs used Google Gen2s with Thread Border Routers built in was cost prohibitive for me.

JackbyDev,

I don’t understand this post. Whatever you bought then for they’re still good for. People’s opinions don’t make them less useful.

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Sir, this is Lemmy. People treat the applications and hardware you use with ethical alignment and switching to FOSS literally has approval on the level of religious conversion.

It’s no wonder people around here care so much about random people’s opinions, the place practically filters for it.

baatliwala,

I thought this was about FIFA

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