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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 06/11/2023 (lemmy.nz)
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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

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[–] TotallyNotAMurderer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you do use the Pi for Home Assistant, save a lot of future headaches and use a proper SSD and not a SD card - there are always soooo many people having issues with SD cards after a while.

If you are thinking you're going to be investing a good bit of time in the future with Home Assistant (you will as it's a hell of a rabbit hole) apparently Pi's are quite slow to work with.

A used PC (small form factor for about $200 with a 5 or 6 gen i5 CPU that ends with T and 4 gig of ram) is a suuuper snappy, future proof and reliable system to run HA on. Mine only uses ~10watt and is automating my whole house.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

I've used the Pi for running many services and already had an SSD for it, I don't trust SD cards at all.

I've just moved all my services to an old laptop, my Home Assistant only has a small number of integrations at the moment but if it grows I'll be sure to get a more appropriatly powered PC, thanks for the tip 🙂