Since rpis have been almost impossible to find, I've been looking around for alternatives for some local self hosted services like home assistant. A lot of boards seem to talk about GPU, GPIO pins, etc. But I really just want a single board, fanless (low power), decent CPU and RAM, ethernet.

Any recommendations?

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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

i prefer the laptop due to impossibility of a brown out / blackout affecting it. it is basically an active ups

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's true - as long as the battery does not catch fire :D

    Are you using any charging utility? Like Macbooks are drawing power from Power brick as long as the battery is full. Still they are sometimes discharging to around 50% to keep the cells alive.

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