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		bsder 62 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: More random home lab things I've recently learned Can someone explain to me why people keep building "home lab" things with RPi's? Both the "Hacker" and "Cheap Bastard" ethos are better served by ... just about any cheap x86 stuff--especially used. What am I missing?

killingtime74 62 days ago [–]

Indeed. Raspberry PIs are not cheap for their price/performance or power/performance.

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