alt Hacker NewsPi’s are incredible little basic home servers but they can’t handle transcoding. Great option for places with very expensive electricity too.
Replies
drnick1 • today at 1:00 AM
Way too expensive for their moderate performance. All serious self-hosters (not Youtube home-labbers) use x86 machines, often retired desktop/gaming rigs or used datacenter hardware.
➕ show 1 reply
I just found their proprietary hardware and being ARM too limiting. I wanted to set up full disk encryption to set up nextcloud on, and found that on the pi this is an incredibly complex process. While on an x86 PC it's just a checkbox on install.
And then you can only use distros which have a raspberry pi specific build. Generic ARM ones won't work.