Raspberry Pi alternatives for headless self hosted applications

SirPsychoMantis@kbin.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 48 points –

Since rpis have been almost impossible to find, I've been looking around for alternatives for some local self hosted services like home assistant. A lot of boards seem to talk about GPU, GPIO pins, etc. But I really just want a single board, fanless (low power), decent CPU and RAM, ethernet.

Any recommendations?

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This is slightly different, but in this rpi drought, I've set up proxmox on an old laptop and have several VMs/LXC/containers running on it. It fills that same role for me. I don't know exactly what the power cost comparison is, but it's gotta beat several rpis running simultaneously.

2nd this - great way to have tons of flexibility

I have a similar setup but with a lenovo tiny pc.

Another advantage is that I no longer have to worry about sd cards randomly dying