Yep. Since a while ago.

Convenience > performance all day errday so the rpi 5 takes the cake.

No one would want to buy this to use with high-demanding applications, but for hobbies and trivial stuff. With that said, even a Orange pi zero 3 is “better” than both Rpi 5 and the n100.

tl;dr: The magic word is convenience.

Docker + nextdns image that i built.

That is very impressive! And thank you very much for those tips. Oh, and mine tends to sit around 2.3W… and that is with over_voltage at 5, and both min and max cpu values at 1500 while running a couple things 24/7 (docker, a live stream on ffplay, pihole.)

Care to share one of those things? Because I’ve got a rpi 4 and I’d love to hear some “under-the-sleeve” tricks to make my rpi 4 a bit more happier than it already is.

Eh…you’ve got a point there. Then again, there is always pendrives and other extremely small devices where you can copy your (mostly important/crucial) files in and carry it along with your house/car keys or something like that.

As dumb/simple/boring as this may be…? An external hard drive.

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…what? It doesn’t require you to be online 24/7, works at any™ PC, and the speed is really great – even on a potato.

Unless you work at NASA or at IBM or similars – then feel free to call me dum.

urmom = main pc

fbi = rpi 4 with docker + pihole + 2x unbound

As someone who has tried both and went back to pihole for no reason other than “why not?” – it works as intended, does everything accordingly and I have 0 issues running it plus 2x unbound dns servers.

An “average” cmatrix uses around 7.6 MiB of memory and 2.5% ~2.7% of cpu on the same Rpi4.

t. Got a rpi 4 right to my left. It runs 24/7, so it takes a few keystrokes to test.

the overhead would be minimal

Kind of a “self-flex”, but one of the “#1 container” I mentioned in the OP, cmatrix (should have said image, I was way too sleepy when I posted this, but eh) uses less than 1% of the CPU and exactly 486kb of RAM (and that is on a RPI 4), so yep… pretty sure any PC (and I -REALLY meant to say ANY) will have 0 issues running those tiny, “waste of resources” apps. :^)

Blocky, unbound, and btop (which is not related to self-hosting, but its low memory plus cpu usage can be really handy on low power devices.)

Armbian. Aside from some minor inconveniences, typical from a Ubloatu install (unsolicited openvpn, cron, network-manager) its a breddy gucci distro.

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By manually updating the whole thing.

“Gus are you cra–”

Eh, its a good brain exercise.

VMs if you have enough RAM and/or need to run something on a non-compatible system (like pfsense on ARM). Containers for everything else.

My daddy works at Microsoft and he disagrees with your baseless counter-“argument”. :^)

There is no evidence for the same reason that I don’t need to explain why “fire is hot” – everyone who used the internet for at least 5 minutes in their entire lifespan knows this.

If your “main machine” is a Orange Pi 5 plus… then why not.