• cynar@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I’ve found that a pi is good enough, computationally, but not reliability wise.

    A lot of things like advanced light control goes through my host, so any lockups or crashes are bad. My pi held up for about 18 months before it began to play up. I’ve found a small NUC system has higher reliability for the same price and power usage.

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        3 hours ago

        That doesn’t help against hardware thermal runaway. The pi would overheat its own ram chips and hard lock up. A simple power cycle fixed it.