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Each time I visit Real Engineers™ in SV, I get an itch to do a baby version of whatever they’re doing. In this case I just spent a couple of days with engineers building multi-million dollar rack systems and I feel like making a multi-hundred-dollar rack system
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There’s nothing computationally you can do with them that isn’t cheaper to do on a regular PC. The use case is mainly to get practice with distributed computing systems like Kubernetes.
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I run several Bitcoin node projects on these. Most node runners only run 1 but feel as though things should be separated more for safety and privacy reasons. There are plenty of other use cases for running multiple pis.
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Weekend project: figure out why all of my nodes stopped syncing.
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Still don't know what to do with my single RPI. Thought of hosting an API at one point, but managing uptime, wifi, security, heating, etc. Probably much more work and less transferable skills than a free cloud account.
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