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Only use jellyfin. Have a list of things want to update... but it works for now.

Yes that is a laptop usb cooler used as supplemental placebo cooling. Also a pc fan I have propped up against the hard drive feeding into the pi.

Can't recall last time used the ps4 or switch. But they're there

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[–] Takahe@lemmy.nz 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What do you do on that many pi's that could not be done easier on 1 x86 box?

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're fanless and low-power, which was the primary draw to going this route. I run a Kubernetes cluster on them, including a few personal websites (Nginx+Python+Django), PostgreSQL, Sonarr, Calibre, SSH (occasionally) and every once in a while, an OpenArena server :-)

[–] Getting6409@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I did a 4 node Pi4 kubernetes cluster for about 5 years. The learning experience was priceless. I think most notable was learning to do proper multiarch container builds to support arm and x86_64. That being said, about half a year ago I decided to try condensing it all into two n100 nuc-like clones and keep one pi as the controller. For me and my apps and use cases there was no going back. Performance gains were substantial and in this regard I think I was hobbling myself after the educational aspect plateaued.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually, as a web guy, I find the ARM architecture to be more than sufficient. Most of the stuff I build is memory heavy and CPU light, so the Pi is great for this stuff.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except the Pi doesn’t have much memory.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Each Pi 4 has 8GB of RAM. With six devices, that's 48GB to play with. More than enough for my needs.