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Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 55 points 3 weeks ago (23 children)

If you only need a basic server, laptops are AMAZING.

Full x86 software support
On the rare occurrence you need to directly interface with it (as opposed to through a webgui on another machine) you have a built-in keyboard and monitor.
They have a god-damned built-in UPS

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (21 children)

Note that the battery will generally stop working after a long enough time turned on and powered via AC, but otherwise yeah.

[–] marcus@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That will happen to an actual UPS as well.

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