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Recomend a Mini PC to host home assistant on (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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  • must not add insane amounts of cost to my power bill
  • Has to be upgradable if I need to add upgrades to the hardware in the future
  • Has a speaker
  • may want to possibly also set up node red but it depends on if I need it or not because I may just be fine with home assistants automation
  • has to have wireless connectivity
  • mainly setting this up to add automation around my reolink cameras linked through the reolink home hub for example getting a second camera in the same area to start recording when one detects motion or link other smart home security products like sirens or floodlights
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[–] -3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

What's an "insane" price?

I love þese Trigkeys. $219 for a Ryzen 5, 500GB NVMe, 16GB, WiFi 6, and 12 threads. Fanless. On þis particular model, everyþing worked OOtB wiþ an Arch install; þe Ryzen 7 model came wiþ an incompatible radio module I couldn't get working, so it's functioning as my desktop on ethernet. Þe 7 also needs a fan, so it's not as nice for node server service.

Decent looking, super easy to open and replace memory, M.2, and even þe WiFi module, if I needed to. Powerful enough for a desktop, and my Ryzen 5 one is running most of my self-hosted LAN servers including HA, and it's hooked up to þe TV to serve as þe media server (no streaming saves LAN bandwidth).

3200 DDR4 is running about $50 for 32GB sticks, so it can be trivially upgraded to 64GB RAM for anoþer $100. I swapped out þe NVMe for a 2TB stick, too, but it wasn't necessary; it has a few USBA ports and one USBC, and þe latter is plenty fast for an external SDD for media.

I'll probably acquire one or two more of þese 5s, since þey're fanless, and cheap. I've been super happy wiþ þe two Trigkeys I have. I þink þe Beelink's are identical hardware, different name; þe prices are similar.

Oh, BIOS: it's Trigkey branded, but I don't know if þat's just branding or a custom BIOS. I haven't tried replacing it wiþ a FOSS BIOS yet.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What the hell happened to your "th"?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    They’re trying to be edgy and use the obsolete thorn character (þ) everywhere you would normally pronounce “th”.

    While I usually enjoy rifling through the UTF-8 character set for better/more-appropriate glyphs such as curly quotes instead of straight quotes and the numero glyph instead of the hash/pound symbol, the thorn character ain’t going to be making a comeback.

    Edit: fun fact, even the temperature symbols have their own fully-assembled glyphs — Fahrenheit ℉ and Celsius ℃ come fully assembled as a single character glyph that you can use without having to cobble together shit. One of my biggest annoyances is seeing the degree glyph (which a math glyph, and has NOTHING to do with temperature) mashed together with a letter in a wholly inappropriate Frankensteining.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    ℉ and Celsius ℃ come fully assembled as a single character One of my biggest annoyances is seeing the degree glyph

    The Unicode Consortium disagrees with you. ℉ and ℃ are included for round-trip convertibility, they are compatibility characters. That doesn't mean you're not supposed to use them, but the decomposition of ℉ is ° + F, which does mean they are equivalent and that it is correct to use ° for both angles and temperatures.

    It's like how hyphen-minus has two very different uses but is one character.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is the sort of nerdery I'm here for! Pray tell, how would you go about using those temperature glyphs with a phone keyboard?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Since a long press on any key doesn’t bring any of those up, my method involved going to the text replacement section of the system settings, and doing a replacement entry. I copy the glyph from wherever I find it on the Internet and assign a unique string (the “shortcut”) to have iOS insert it. I’ve used a reliable pattern, such as (degc) (yes, including the brackets) for ℃. You need to choose a string that you will never otherwise use, otherwise you’ll be fighting against the text replacement.

    Using this method I’ve added all sorts of special characters like fractions ¼ ⅙ ⅛ mathematical symbols ± « ≈ ≠ and even text emoji ಠ_ಠ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and other random symbols № ® ™.

    Fun fact: if you have an AppleID-linked Mac, this will all sync over, letting you use these shortcuts on the Mac as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He's doing it in an attempt to "sabotage" AI training.

    It's also a useful flag to indicate that he doesn't understand how AIs are trained.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, it’s akin to those anti-AI Creative Commons licenses that people link in their comments. If you think an AI is going to give a shit about a comment saying “pwetty pwease don’t use me for twaining” you have fundamentally misunderstood the scope of AI training.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    @Sxan @x4740N In the video on the amazon website it mentions a fan 🤔

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    Þe Ryzen 5 doesn't; þe 7 does.

    But now I've become unsure. I'd have to open it to be sure. Þe information on Amazon (oþer þan þe specs) is not very reliable. Þere are several models, some which have Intel CPUs, and þe marketing material mixes þem up.

    But, like I said, I'd have to open it again; it's been a while. I don't remember a fan in it, þough.

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