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SD are far too easy to wear out and RPi (?) is not a reliable platform. There's far more powerful, 1000x more reliable and cost effective options these days for a home node. If you want reliability you want to get rid of RPi, SD cards, and external attached storage. If you want safety for an LN node you absolutely need two disks. Past advice on this was dangerous because this approach used to be too expensive. Not anymore.

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J. Thaddeus Toad 2y ago

What OS and node software do you recommend running on one of these thinkpads?

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Warren Togami 2y ago

I've heard Umbrel and Raspiblitz x86_64 exist but they don't seem to be well explained and are of secondary importance? I have never used the appliance distros. I use ordinary Linux and install everything as a normal Linux server with Bitcoin Core, Core Lightning, RTL, etc. If the appliance distros don't prioritize ordinary PC hardware you need sysadmin skills to do it manually.

Also don't use Tor. Tunnelsats or my self-hosted port forwarding VPN guide is vastly superior to Tor for LN. I would turn off Tor. Long story.

https://github.com/wtogami/vpn-nat-service-forwarding-howto

alanajoy 2y ago

I don’t have Linux or sysadmin experience at all, but this sounds so pure tbh.

Anthony 2y ago

Purity is now being taxed 30%

alanajoy 2y ago

tHiS iS fReEdUmB

J. Thaddeus Toad 2y ago

🙌 thank you, I have the Linux skills and a few old MacBook Air laptops that I’m thinking of using for this. I might be one of lucky ones because my RPI umbrel has been solid for a year now, just a bit slow. Are you running Ubuntu or ?