"Do no evil" iminent moment https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/raspberry-pi-is-preparing-for-an-ipo-in-london-for-likely-more-than-500m/
Discussion
We'll all be watching
I don't understand why anyone is still buying these things...
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.
Seems like only yesterday you couldn't run a node without one.
What is a hobby geek to do with his raspiblitz, dojo, umbrel role playing, when a decent nuc is so pricey.
A used Optiplex micro works great
Do you keep it on all the time? Or just power up and sync whenever you need to transact?
The pi is low power, silent, and always on... takes up no room, and does its thing running raspiblitz.
If chip integrity is the problem then I guess most intel processor will be suspect and you get into libre boot territory.
Any thoughts on RPI drop in replacements like pine64 or Raxda (https://radxa.com/products/compute-module/cm5)?
Raspis has been off the table for me for a while. Looking for PINE64 devices instead.
Guess I better figure out what this means.
Pine64.com - enjoy!
Found [ameriDroid](https://ameridroid.com/collections/pine) too