Re:Raspberry Pi 5
by Fnoord on Thursday September 28, 2023 @04:21AM
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Because every machine you use requires maintenance whereas NextDNS [1] costs 2 EUR/month. The time wasted on maintenance alone is worth more, add to that the electricity bill.
Examples: I also use one with OpenWrt (though I'd prefer OPNsense on it), and I use one as PiKVM. I use one with a portable HackRF (3D printed case), batteries included. I use two with Pimoroni Enviro+, and I have a fun Turing Pi 2 homelab/miniNAS with 3 CM4s (one Jetson Orin Nano). I got two RPi4's one at my mother in law, one at my mother, allowing a VPN connection for tech support and also running Jellyfin with old content for them.
Personally, I still enjoy my Pi's (and no not all of them are on and used 24/7) however I also very much enjoy Proxmox and VMs. But the Proxmox machine is a Xeon... (HP MicroServer 10 Gen 10) the fan is loud af and difficult to replace with say a Noctua due to HP ingeniousness.
Examples: I also use one with OpenWrt (though I'd prefer OPNsense on it), and I use one as PiKVM. I use one with a portable HackRF (3D printed case), batteries included. I use two with Pimoroni Enviro+, and I have a fun Turing Pi 2 homelab/miniNAS with 3 CM4s (one Jetson Orin Nano). I got two RPi4's one at my mother in law, one at my mother, allowing a VPN connection for tech support and also running Jellyfin with old content for them.
Personally, I still enjoy my Pi's (and no not all of them are on and used 24/7) however I also very much enjoy Proxmox and VMs. But the Proxmox machine is a Xeon... (HP MicroServer 10 Gen 10) the fan is loud af and difficult to replace with say a Noctua due to HP ingeniousness.
[1] https://nextdns.io/pricing