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Frankly I'm fed up with pi's: they're not reliable at all for 24/7 uses cases.

I have a PI 3 at work that needs frequent hard reboots because it fails to read the USB peripheral it's connected to.

I also have half dozen PI 4 connected to big screens, that randomly fail to show anything (black screen). They need several hard reboot to get back to work.

My boss wasn't convinced that it was the pis fault. To prove it, I just connected an old PC tower on one of the screen: this setup never caused any problem in months.

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You're probably using an unreliable power supply. Use something official, and put any USB peripherals on a separately powered hub.

Interesting to see that the raspi foundation is in the business of PSU certification. It kind of weirdly feels like the next gen Apple...

They all run with the official power supply.

Are you using official cables too? Cause all my Pi instabilities have come from power supply issues, and in all cases the problem was actually due to crappy cables.

I bought a cheap USB cable tester[1] from AliExpress and ended up throwing away half my cables.

[1]: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32973869742.html (random store, feel free to find another)

The cable is soldered to the power supply.

Looks like that : https://www.okdo.com/us/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2019/06/E...

Well one would assume it's proper then. You could still do a load test with the USB tester I linked to, see if voltage drops too much under 2A load, but I'd assume that's not the issue.

I've been running a pi at home for more than a half a year now. It's running multiple web services, like my personal blog https://habet.dev/blog nextcloud, wireguard, pihole and more.

Lately I started writing blog posts detailing the set up: https://habet.dev/self-hosting-and-securing-web-services-out...

I haven't had any issues with it!

Just running low-write software on a Pi isn’t that bad from my experience.

But OP is talking about adding peripherals.

Don’t get me started on trying to switch to SSDs because you kept killing your SD cards.

I have a Pi 4 that's been rock stable, running both Hypriot w/ Docker containers, and recently, TalosOS w/ full k8s. Single-node k8s on a Pi is horrendously slow during changes, if you're wondering, but it's fast enough once everything is stable. I have it running JupyterLab right now. Don't really notice a difference in speed once the kernel launches for tinkering-level scripts.

Mine is powered via PoE FWIW.

I have a Raspberry Pi running Wireguard that's pretty reliable - but it's really just running Wireguard.

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