(to my NAT gateway) "You pass the packets."

Are you me?

Could you not just actually build a dedicated PC for that price? Lol

Spare parts don't run on 5-10 watts.

yep i do, amd phenom x6 with 8gb of ram is still rocking!

but not for long, i have too many services for the ram and it swaps too much.

A cheap used office computer with a good CPU and decent RAM can far exceed the power of a Pi. That's been my strategy. I just Frankenstein it a bit with leftover parts from my gaming computer and load it up with disks.

Sweet baby Jesus. Reminds me of folks running Lemmy on them and wondering why their SD card is always failing 😅

lol. Sir, I only have 4 cores and 8GB

YOU DONT KNOW ME SON

I have one of these things, though a slightly older model.

Note: I ask this from a place of complete ignorance, having never owned a machine with Apple silicon…this is just for my own curiosity. With that said:

Is it better to put something like Asahi on there than to leave it MacOS? Obviously, if we could have fully-featured and fully-optimized Linux running on the M1, that would be ideal, but I worry that a port like this would be pretty janky for a quite a long time while they reverse engineer everything

Why do you say that about the NUCs?

That's not even nearly as powerful as a pi 4. At least on paper

what architecture is the CPU?

I used an old laptop I had with a broken screen. Werks

I used to have my own server for 4 years. It was my personal compute with virtual machine and 10TB. Then I checked my electricity bill, it was so expensive I rebase everything on a single RockPro64 with a raid 1. Hardware budget is not that expensive, but you should definitly calculate how much electricty will weighs on your house budget

yes, but I would recommend transcoding everything for direct play before putting it on the server

Probably? I believe the pihole is pretty low resource. I have mine on a Zero.

Eating $70 in power a month.