> Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi
If you can get hold of one!
I've been looking for a Pi4 for ages to use with PiHole but sold out everywhere, some have back orders for 2023 O_O
Anyone got any recommendations of other devices that work well with PiHole? I have a Mac Mini acting as a home server but from what I've read, PiHole does not run great on it via Docker...
You don't need any in fact. It's Python so it runs on any powerful enough Linux platform, and there's a boatload of them out there; the Raspberry Pi is just the 1st one to become popular and it's the most advertised. Hoarders depleted all stocks to sell them overpriced? Well, screw them, we're going to the competition instead.
Here's a list, updated yearly, of the most known Linux boards available with data and prices. https://linuxgizmos.com/catalog-of-136-open-spec-community-b...
Take a look also at the devices supported by Armbian and DietPi.
https://www.armbian.com/download/?device_support=Supported
Also worth visiting is the Linux-sunxi site, where you can find a huge load of open documentation about hardware and software for Allwinner CPUs used in some of these boards.
https://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Page
Also available are Amlogic CPUs docs at the Hardkernel site.
Example: here's the over 1000 pages long S905x3 full data sheet.
https://dn.odroid.com/S905X3/ODROID-C4/Docs/S905X3_Public_Da...
The public Raspberry Pi CPU data sheet is 166 pages long.
I once made the mistake of buying a Banana Pi M2 Zero. Specs were great, support looked decent, I thought I'll be getting a Pi 3 in a Zero form factor. What I instead got was a thing nobody uses on which barely anything runs properly with such flaky wifi that it's practically useless. Never again.
You can buy fanless celeron mini-computers from Aliexpress for $100-$150. You can also get i5/i7 if you are willing to pay a lot more. Most of them come with pirated Windows (some sellers even say that they'll send it with Ubuntu pre-installed) but you can simply remove it and install Ubuntu Server and then install PiHole, Home Assistant or whatever you want.
https://mobile.twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1486107991271260...