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My Self Hosting Journey (feddit.nu)
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[–] 80 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Switched from a raspberry pi 3 to a second hand x86 thin client (lenovo thinkcentre m920q) because raspberry pi 4 were not available at the time. Made me learn proxmox and a bunch of other cool stuff my raspi couldn't handle.

I'm rooting for ARM / RISC-V to become more popular in desktop computing / servers though.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've always liked riscv. Just the idea of literally everything on the device being open source is a fun idea. Manuals to everything.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago*

    Just because the ISA is open source doesn't mean that the end product or even the design will be open source.

    RISC-V is licensed permissively, giving anyone the right to make a proprietary (or FOSS) RISC-V processor.

    Often times, you'll see mostly open source cores, but then some extention is proprietary.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Waiting for proxmox-arm becoming a thing (I know there's some community versions trying it but I'm not sure how reliable they are)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The hardware virtualisation available for arm just isn’t there yet

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Apple Silicon Macs do a great job with virtualization. Outside of them there's just no nice high end hardware that's well suited for something like proxmox. It's either low end SBC, or the hyper proprietary ARM servers that I don't think we can even buy.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    I did similar once the pi4s were hard to get and expensive. A used x86 mini pc was cheaper and magnitudes more powerful. It runs all my server needs. I’m a simple person: homebridge, plex server, retro game library.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Is there RISC-V hardware already? I thought the specification was still under development.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are some Raspi competitors offering SBCs with RISC-V chips, there is even a RISC-V Mainboard for the framework laptops, but the last time I checked they sadly didn't reach the performance levels of comparable ARM chips.

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