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Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi (sopuli.xyz)

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This. Even a cheap alibaba n100 would be way better on Power than pretty much any laptop.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Quick computation for Seattle, powering a typical laptop consuming 20W to run say an IoT server, 24/7 at 14 cents/kwh would cost about $25/year. A Pi 4 would be about 1/10th of that.

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