I enjoy running a node for a lot of reasons, but I am always honest with people who want to do it that it’s not a way to generate income, and it’s not without a steep learning curve.

If you have a Raspberry Pi, you’re much better off just setting it up as an nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm Hub which doesn’t require much maintenance.

If you really want to go all in, you should plan to spend a few hundred bucks on a decent used mini PC with a faster processor and plenty of disk space.

For most people who just want to use Lightning and not run their own hardware, there are a bunch of decent options.