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

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[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This. Even a cheap alibaba n100 would be way better on Power than pretty much any laptop.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Quick computation for Seattle, powering a typical laptop consuming 20W to run say an IoT server, 24/7 at 14 cents/kwh would cost about $25/year. A Pi 4 would be about 1/10th of that.