on Pi’s this actually negatively impacts performance and SD card longevity
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yeah, i wouldn't even consider putting swap on that garbage... if i was ever to use that hardware i'd plug a USB-3 NVMe external drive into it for the boot device, assuming there is a model that has at least a 5gbit USB interface, otherwise that just rules the entire thing out
there is plenty of other SoCs out there that you can use that do have both 10Gbit+ USB and NVMe interfaces, i wouldn't even consider the standard rPi for anything to be honest... i have a HP G3 mini and it's pretty great, has both sata 6gbit and a ~4gb/s SATA interface AND two DP outputs AND a usb-c with DP capability... cost me 140 euros, there is just no sane reason to spend any less on such a device, throw another 150 euros for a 2Tb nvme device and a 70 euro UPS and you have everything you need for a competent lightning node except maybe a reliable backup network connection
There is a sane reason to... If you're a computer nincompoot like me and there's a guide for doing it that way
i'm just gonna say, in response to that, nope
i think pis are great for fun stuff like IoT and sensor networks and LoRa and this kind of thing but seriously don't bet your money on them
still has latency, considering USB is still polling based
indeed but really the maximum you should be doing with home hosting is relays and private lightning payment channels, it's really best to rent VPS and get the benefit of scale efficiencies and high bandwidth backbone connections for real work