this thing would make a great octoprint box tbh

8 cores so clicing will be fairly fast

What could you use one of those for?

i'd run octoprint on it

and drive my 3d printer with it instead of doing the sd shuffle

That sounds nice

if it had two ethernet ports i'd make it my ~~bitch~~ router

i mean, granted, my 1700 will slice _way_ faster

but then i have to take the sd card out of the reader, walk to 3d printer, put sd card in, menus of 3d printer, THEN print

octoprint i just upload a file and it slices and pritns right there, with web interface

and streaming video

so i can print and monitor pritns from phone and everything

I've been thinking of getting like, a thing to just run servers and services on

No idea what to get though

tbh an sbc isn't great for that unless you're wanting little dedicated boxes/clusters

i have a fistful of em running a few web servers, reverse proxy, and dns

and an irc bouncer

That's exactly the stuff I want

but if you wanna do anything serious just get a used r710 or dl380 off ebay tbh

like $300 and way way more capable, esp. if you just virtualise everything

they are actively bad for web servers if you have any significant amount of traffic

Whoa, I don't need like an actual whole server

mine are running a blog and a shitposty ytmnd-type site

I'll just let the corporations own my data

it's worth it if only for learning imo

also having an actual vm host is nice

you have to buy a lot less hardware if you can just virtualise most of your homelab, and honestly that's how a lot of shit in the real world is done anyway

Yeah

downside: power, if you're only doing a few very lightweight things like dns and irc bouncing arm sbcs will shit on any x86 server out there for power consumption

That's a pretty big thing for me too

The power bills here are insane

All I have in mind is a DNS and IRC bouncer

landlord subsidizes my power bill then it's split four ways

so i'm fine there

I'm using cheapo ($10) hp thin client box at home

has proper sata, gbit ethernet, x86 via nano with very low power draw

granted that ARM SBCs will shit on it when it comes to cpu performance, but still

it could suit your use case

That sounds nice

Though, what would I use the CPU performance an ARM SoC has for?

if it's a thin client, it doesn't matter much