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Re:Bought an Ampere Altra System by rixed on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @10:46PM (#44439816)
PI is not that much unpowered by the dollar, is it?

I think Google demonstrated 20 years ago that server-grade hardware is no match for fault tolerance in software. Plenty of build farms use PIs, running standard flawless arm64 Linux distros.

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Re:Bought an Ampere Altra System by p_l on Thursday July 03, 2025 @07:25AM (#44453880)
RPi does not support everything you may need to use, build farms are not the only use case for ARM servers too.

And Google could do what they did because of the scale they bought crap changed the calculus for performance.

And even Google switched to denser compute over time, with custom hw even.

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