Ok. You’ve said this multiple times. Can you explain exactly what your problem is with an RPi if I’m not running anything super compute intensive?
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Now you don't have the option to run something intensive.
When for the same price you could have had a relay + node + media server in one.
Sure, if I want to run something heavy I’ll upgrade, but if it fits my compute power needs would you still have a problem with it?
Why "upgrade" when you could have paid less for a better PC? This is my issue with RPi. Usually upgrades are more expensive.
Fair enough. So your basic point is that I should just buy more computer than I need in case I want to run something else because it’ll be easier to buy too much than upgrade and migrate.
Yes basically. I started with RPi too, everyone on twitter had them and a cool case. But it wasn't even enough power to run a mid level lightning node that balanced channels once every 5 minutes.
Speaking from experience here! I'm mad that bitcoiners all recommended it and it's a piece of shit 🧡
😂
Later this month I have to move a cluster I built from 36 tower PC’s and 100’s of meters of infiniband.
It’s amazing what you can do with a pallet of refurb. 😉
Infiniband sounds like Cisco
Mellanox
The cables cost more than the PC’s.
I needed to build a memory fabric and lots of sockets+infiniband was the most scalable way to do it.
Mellanox, crazy expensive cables, infiniband, so Cisco
Actually technically Mellanox was acquired by NVIDIA..
ever since nvidia acquired them
I seem to recall it was pretty expensive tech even before NVIDIA acquired them. I’m sure NVIDIA cranked up the price.
Yeah, cables are $1000s…
Interesting, I have ~100x of these lying around.
When did they get that expensive? Bought some for maybe 200 a few years ago
Good to hear your perspective. I think RPi gained traction because it was easy to setup with Umbrel with little knowledge/skills. For me, I have no idea what to do with Ubuntu or Debian on a small PC - drivers etc