Subj : Re: Raspberry Pi
To   : Arelor
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sat Apr 29 2023 07:59:00

-=> Arelor wrote to Utopian Galt <=-

 Ar> Most people who replaces old working computers due to enviromental
 Ar> concerns have not sat down and thought it through. Most of the time it
 Ar> does not make finantial sense either. Even with European prices, a new
 Ar> machine may take more than 10 years to save enough energy to justify
 Ar> the replacement.

Financially, it makes sense - I look at how much longer my UPS lasts
with my 4 year old i7 versus a 12 year old Core 2 Quad, and extrapolate
that into lower utility costs.


To UG's point, it would be a nice challenge to make a home network run
on a Pi - run a BBS, some home apps, maybe do some streaming, run a
small web site... the only thing that bugs me about pis was not being
able to use SATA for booting/storage. I hear that's resolved and I've
seen some interesting pi cases that hold an nvme.

Some people are even running Docker and ESXi on Pis...




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