Re:What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick, Linux, Homelab
by wrxd on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:21PM
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Really nice.
I ended up with an home server with 40GB of RAM (thankfully bought a couple years ago) and I take advantage of it when I build Rust applications but for a very long time my home lab was a 1st generation Raspberry Pi.
512MB of RAM are definitely sufficient for many workloads, you need to be picky on what you run and choose software written somewhat efficiently.
I ended up with an home server with 40GB of RAM (thankfully bought a couple years ago) and I take advantage of it when I build Rust applications but for a very long time my home lab was a 1st generation Raspberry Pi.
512MB of RAM are definitely sufficient for many workloads, you need to be picky on what you run and choose software written somewhat efficiently.