I don't understand why anyone is still buying these things...
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It's baffling.
As someone who is trying to learn, what are my alternatives?
Depends what you are trying to do.
$50 ebay lenovo
What's a better option?
Old laptop? Copy start9's server pure specs?
I run a node on a raspi4 been thinking about upgrading to something better.
What you want to do?
I want to learn more about fedimints and DLCs on nostr, I'm kind of a basic user where raspi served me well but I like start9 has backups and redundancy for when I want to take it to the next level I can't risk a significant amount.
My umbrel loses connection once every 3-4 weeks with an UPS and the forced resets have me concerned.
My experience as well. None of my other rpis do this, though. I have *cough* a lot of them. This is bad news for me. I still have a Beaglebone Black lying around, wonder if that's any good.
I've been reading up on CLN vs LND
would the best setup be on CLN and run a watchtower on another node to ensure I have the latest channel state in the event of a failure?
because having LND backups static channels or whatever really isn't great due to a forced channel close is the best resolution in the event of failure.