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Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi (infosec.pub)

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

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I once did some research & measurements about power consumption; my takeaway was that as soon as the screen is off any ol' laptop (with the charger constantly attached) consumes pretty much the same amount of energy as a RasPi with identical storage attached.

I used a 2008 hp consumer laptop as a server between 2015 and 2021.

[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Used an old eee701 as a server for a fair while, pretty sure that was equal or less power usage than the Pis at the time.

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