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I Told You to Buy a Raspberry Pi, Then I Bought a Used i3 Desktop

The Raspberry Pi 5 is the gateway drug of self-hosting, and a used 8th or 9th gen i3 office desktop is what I moved to. Here is the honest comparison, price, power, performance, Quick Sync transcoding and the one thing the Pi does that the i3 never will.

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What My Entire Stack Costs Per Year, Counted Honestly

I added up what my self-hosted stack replaced and what it costs to run, hardware and electricity and my time included. The number surprised me, and not only in the way you would expect.

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I Put a Server in My Closet and Ditched the Cloud

I was paying $60/month for cloud VPS. Now everything runs on an ITX PC in my closet — and Cloudflare Tunnel makes it feel like a datacenter.

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