[LUG]Re: Low cost and low powered fediverse server

[Richard Brown <cregyrich@xxxxxxxxx>]

No I was thinking of the purchase of a pi and running it as a desktop. Also have you seen the rise of alternatives such as razda and also Orange Pi?

Kind regards

Rich Brown
Youth Worker
07546 804439

On Sat, 29 Aug 2026, 4:13 pm Paul Sutton via list, <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 29/08/2026 3:55 pm, Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> Because of the cost of Pi's I ended up buying two Lenovo ThinkCentres. I
> think it is a 920s with 16gb ram and a 720s with 16gb ram. Both are i7s.
> They run whisper quiet, almost no watts and run everything I need.
>
> I have both set up with containers running Jellyfin, immich, nextcloud
> and a few others which I can't remember.
>
> I process dvds and photos. I don't do a lot of text based stuff so the
> remainder is website work and emails.
>
> I would love to get a pi at some point but the servers were £80 and £140.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Richard Brown
> Youth Worker
> 07546 804439

By cost of Pi's, I a guessing that you are making reference to those
that are hosted in a Data centre,  rather than at home behind some sort
of DNS/Proxy thingy that allows the pi to be visible to the outside
internet.

Paul
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