My Node, Start9 on Purism Mini, Samurai Dojo on a dedicated Thinkpad and starting to try Nix. MyNode and Start9 brilliant so far. Migrating from using Pi's to actual computers from good sources like purism, Sys76, starlabs and trying running Coreboot orsimilair rather than stock firmware. Taken ages to learn but getting better thanks to these great suppliers and coders.
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Sounds like you’ve been through it and tired of pi performance
Yeah. Enjoyed them at first but we had some power problems here and the Pi's did not always recover. Running various mini computers like the Purism mini and for the firewall using a Protecli box makes things stable and fast. So much better. Planning on giving a bunch of Pi's to others just starting out.