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84dcaaf5 | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 As a fan of arm SBC, my main worries are energy consumption and proprietary BIOS. Even though coreboot has its blobs, it makes power efficiency better around 20-30%. Pine64 sells a risc-v SBC. Still early but my bet for the "perfect" server is a risc-v SBC with two nvme s2 native support.
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Average Geo | 6 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Ultimately, it looks like a stripped down Debian build. BIOS is for their proprietary systems; my laptop still has its BIOS after the install. There appears to be limited hardware recognition (including wifi adapters). I haven’t dug into it much to this point, and trust the Start9 team based on my limited trust circle. But I could dive into it if I had time.
I like SBCs too. Although I don’t have any RISC-V ones at this point, but I could check it out on an ARM SBC at some point.
I use the laptop because it was unused, has sufficient tech, has a decent battery, and other laptop benefits.