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drgo | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Would recommend something more powerful than an rpi5. An old PC from the last decade would work well, even better if it can take an SSD or NVME drive. Newer hardware will be pricey. https://store.start9.com
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dimi | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Used pc + proxmox + start9 vm has been my goto default for plebs 🫡
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dreamHODL | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 MyNode looks cool, but a little spendy. Anyone have experience with Umbrel?
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drgo | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 You can easily install umbrel on Linux (Ubuntu and Debian I think). It’s literally one command on the command line that you copy off their website.

Umbrel supposedly had a big upgrade in April, but last I checked in April the Linux version wasn’t available 

I’ve been running start9
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dimi | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I’ve never seen someone run both & choose umbrel.
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drgo | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I wouldn’t call either easy, at least on Linux.  I couldn’t understand umbrel lightning backup and couldn’t grasp (despite a short tutorial) how to make backup work on start9 (which requires SMB). 

Start9 allows(or maybe will allow) you to make your own packages (might require upgrade to as of yet not ready software)
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drgo | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Start9 behind the scenes is properly abstracted to basically run anything in a controlled fashion with whatever parameters and monitoring features one could desire.
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drgo | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I need to learn proxmox.
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dimi | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I could bring equipment to Nashville to host an impromptu workshop. I have everything but the slides finished (I said I would post them & haven’t, whoops 😅).
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Rand | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 cool, been so busy but circling in Dimi
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drgo | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I won’t be in Nashville