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Home Assistant Says Goodbye to 32-bit and Hacky Install Methods (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] B0rax@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You bought a laptop to run home assistant?? Why? Why not just a random thinclient for ~50€?

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Different people have different use cases. A thin client doesn't work for video object recognition, nor does it come with a keyboard, display, SSD or battery backup.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They usually do come with SSD. If you need object recognition, there are ones with an PCIe slot for a gpu.

But I am honestly not sure why you need a keyboard and display on a server.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

When I bought this laptop the cheap thin clients came with eMMC storage. Keyboard and display are convenient for installations, backups and occasionally other uses. A decent size UPS is more than $100, uses power even when it's in standby and still doesn't last anywhere near the 7+ hours of the laptop battery when the power fails. I'm away for 3-4 weeks at a time and have had repeated power failures completely corrupt my server SSD during that time. Not everyone can fix a server problem within a few hours.

The laptop cost significantly less than a thin client, plus a gpu, plus a UPS and came with that nice keyboard and display, and a warranty. It only uses about 6-8 watts the majority of the time, important to me for a device that's always on.

Different people have different use cases than you do. Some of us even know what works best for us.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe they want to be able to type things into it and look at the output without having to go over the network.