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minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoBeen thinking of getting an N150 mini PC sometime. Stick proxmox on it and pihole. Probably a web server and host media on it too. Not sure how well it would run dwarf fortress in a VM, play over SSH. Otherwise there is still CDDA.
minus-squareQuazatron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoSmall computers are more powerful than you think, if used properly. I stick with a bunch of containers instead of VMs and it all just hums along nicely on a Raspberry Pi 5. Pi-Hole running all the time barely registers as a workload.
Been thinking of getting an N150 mini PC sometime. Stick proxmox on it and pihole. Probably a web server and host media on it too.
Not sure how well it would run dwarf fortress in a VM, play over SSH. Otherwise there is still CDDA.
Small computers are more powerful than you think, if used properly. I stick with a bunch of containers instead of VMs and it all just hums along nicely on a Raspberry Pi 5.
Pi-Hole running all the time barely registers as a workload.