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minus-squareQuazatron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days 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.
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoYeah, I suspect I have a fair few games that could run in it but ARM doesn’t help for anything closed source stuff. An N150 mini PC don’t cost that much more once you consider that it comes with storage as well, not looked since RAM went silly though.
minus-squareQuazatron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoI don’t think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades. I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.
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.
Yeah, I suspect I have a fair few games that could run in it but ARM doesn’t help for anything closed source stuff.
An N150 mini PC don’t cost that much more once you consider that it comes with storage as well, not looked since RAM went silly though.
I don’t think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades.
I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.