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That price I'd just buy an Optiplex or something

I have 4 RPi servers in my house on 24/7 but yeah

Funny different purpose but I bought a 2017 Pixelbook put Ubuntu on it, great machine it was $80

Similar situation, one thing I like the with the Pis design is you can throw PoE hats on them and build a whole home infrastructure system where the only thing that needs battery backup for power cuts is the main ethernet switch - all of the essential services, switches and wifi APs are powered downstream by their ethernet ports over PoE.

Makes making your key network services (VPN, firewall, DNS, NTP, home assistant etc) on battery backup very easy, as just one plug to the primary switch to keep powered, and my wifi/internet stays on when the power cuts.

I could use other devices, but 5 pis with PoE hats rack mount very cleanly in a single 1U row and passively cooled with no fan noise etc.

Just don't get a Dell server:

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-memory-upgrade-32-gb-2r...

Holy f that's crazy. No I only get the Dell optiplex 9100 or whatever plus a cheap 1050ti GPU to play older games with

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