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  • My pi 5 hosts jellyfin + qbit + the *arr stack + jellyseerr so people I share it with have an easy UI to get and watch movies/shows without me having to be involved.

    I’ve also played with selfhosting small LLMs and image generators on it, but that was more for fun than for any useful result (even an 8gb pi 5 is very slow and can only run tiny models).

    The next project is probably getting more external storage for it and hosting my own photo storage, but honestly I’m pretty happy already with what I have






  • Your build looks pretty good overall, so the only suggestions I have are pretty minor ones. I’m only familiar with the Canadian market, so some of this may not apply to you, but:

    The sn7100 is a much faster drive that sometimes goes on sale for not much more than what pcpartpicker shows for your wd blue - especially for gaming and ai stuff I’d check out that or the Kingston nv3 for faster load times in case the prices are close.

    For memory, if you can find a CL30 kit in the same price range as your CL36 I’d make the upgrade - teamgroup has one that looks pretty similar to Corsair’s and is usually a decent amount cheaper (just make sure you get the CL30 variant and not the CL38). RAM prices have been fucked recently tho thanks to AI, so ymmv here.

    For motherboards, gigabyte’s B850 elite board might come close in price to what you’re looking at depending on sales and it has wifi 7, which isn’t super relevant if you plan to hardwire but could make a big difference if not (at least once you have a wifi7 router, which most people do not lol).

    These are all just small improvements that wouldn’t increase the cost much where I shop, so if any of them are gonna cost way more definitely ignore that suggestion cuz your build is totally fine as is.






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    10 days ago

    ElementaryOS was my gateway drug cuz it was so pretty, I switched to have an OS that made me happy instead of miserable. Dual booted for a while for gaming until I got an hdr monitor and ended up stuck on my (modded for privacy and performance) windows partition more and more, but followed Wayland’s development religiously until plasma finally launched HDR in beta.

    I chose arch (btw) cuz I was tired of running Debian-based distros with custom kernels and I generally just don’t like apt, and I don’t see myself ever really wanting to switch again.
    (Other than compulsively reinstalling arch to try whatever new shit catches my eye, that doesn’t count)