Continuing my attempt at an "easy mode" bitcoin node build on a used Lenovo laptop (~$120?).
Installing Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.3 LTS was smooth. Installing Umbrel via their bash script was easy once the Docker registry server was back online.
PROBLEM: Umbrel apps wouldn't install via the web UI. Had to free up port 53 for some reason.
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/07/ubuntu-how-to-free-up-port-53-used-by.html
Okay, now we're finally cooking!
Will let it do a full IBD just to see what this CPU (Intel Core i3-10110U) is capable of. It's overkill for our needs, while still being a 4-yr-old cpu and still quite cheap. Came with 16GB RAM and I swapped in an okay 2TB nvme.
That's 4.6x more powerful than a Raspi4. IBD started about 5 minutes ago. We'll see how long it takes to finish.
I like that the reported percent progress is... total transactions(?)... and not just counting blocks.
Even though I'm at roughly the halfway point according to block height, the bulk of the IBD syncing time happens in the more recent years' worth of block data. So only being at 15% thus far sounds spot-on.
A little over 12hrs in, done in another 4-5 hrs?
