Up to about two years ago, I had a rack next to my desk with five-or-so
desktop machines running various servers. Over time everything was
transitioned to raspberry pi with the exception of my old firewall. A
converted old Dell workstation - a retired fleet computer - I purchased
from a mom&pop computer shop, they bought by the palet at auction. It
ran smoothwall for a decade - until now. The eighteen year old
motherboard gave up this morning. The funeral was sad but the reception tasteful.
After some maneuvering, internet was restored for the home network. Now,
for the first time, my den is completely silent sans an occasional
laserjet system check. Something magical about running fanless systems.
Only thing I'll miss about it are the free usb ports for
powering/charging various nicknacks. Nothing my underutilized usb hub
can't solve.
So glad I moved to rpi. I can get used to this.
On a different note, there was a moment where I considered
buying a 500+. Then saw the price has hiked to $260 since the last time
I checked. Yeah, nevermind.
Daniel
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