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Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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original post: https://mk.moth.zone/notes/a8zer7ypj6uv02ka

@eri@mk.moth.zone seriously though unless you actually NEED the size constraint, get an e-waste their laptop and put Debian on it instead of buying a single board computer. there's a bajillion windows 8.1 lappies going into landfill every second that you could turn into funny little servers
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a Pi Hole, the Pi 5 doesn't require active cooling.

Now, I am running a separate Pi 5 with a HAILO 8 for Frigate monitoring of a bunch of video streams, and it does need a little air movement, so I built a box with a 200mm fan pulling through a filter and I just threw all my Pis in there along with the Frigate rig so they stay nice and cool... I'm thinking that I should probably switch Frigate over to a Pi 4 for the h.264 hardware decoder, but the 5 is working fine for my needs and endless tweaking gets boring...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You are probably right for something like a Pihole, which can easily run on a RPi 3 as well (I think I'm running it on a 3... maybe even a 2.) My fear is something like Jellyfin (which it is not suited for anyway, I know), combined with the fact that my stack of Pis is in my meter cabinet, so a fairly confined space with very little air movement, also passive. Running Jellyfin without transcoding has my Pi 5 running at just under 50 °C.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's impressive what a gentle breeze will do - if you can get a fan on your cabinet it will help a lot.

    I filter my air and positive pressure the cabinet so the dust doesn't build up (as fast).

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