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So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I dunno when it happened but I swear SBCs were the new best thing in the universe for a while and everyone was building cool little servers with their RockPis and OrangePis.

Now it's all gone x86 and Proxmox with everyone shitting on Arm. What happened? What gives?

Is my small army of xPis pointless? What about my 2 Edge routers?

I've got about 6 xPis scattered round my flat - is there anything worth doing with them or should I just bin them?

All thoughts, feelings and information welcome. Thank you.

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[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The only reason SBCs were ever relevant is because of the excellent pricing, which has now been matched by used x86 computers. That and if the SBC had an open-source design/implementation (open schematics on RISC-V)

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[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not just the pricing, but also the low footprint, tiny size and fanlessness.

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[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Low power too. I replaced a x86 server with 3 PIs in a k8s setup for about half the wattage.

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