My streambox/shizbox machine (a Orange pi 5 MAX w/ 16Gb of ram) has Armbian “bleeding edge”/sway (Which is basically “Rolling release Debian”, and no DE) – everything just werks. It’s as easy as “Install packages, copy .dotfiles in, run, done.”. With those things said… yes, I am using Debian. And yes, I also has the latest packages – without breaking things apart. And no, I don’t want to go back to x11.

Eh…you’ve got a point there. Then again, there is always pendrives and other extremely small devices where you can copy your (mostly important/crucial) files in and carry it along with your house/car keys or something like that.

As dumb/simple/boring as this may be…? An external hard drive.

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…what? It doesn’t require you to be online 24/7, works at any™ PC, and the speed is really great – even on a potato.

Unless you work at NASA or at IBM or similars – then feel free to call me dum.

At this rate, it’s like shouting against a wall and expect it to melt down by itself – spez gets a nice sum of money in his pockets each time someone goes to reddit to whine post about him.

Does some individuals love circlejerking so much they’d GIVE AWAY money for it? Why yes they would.

These moderators are in an abusive relationship with Reddit, Inc. I might understand the argument, “we built this community, we can’t just abandon it”. But would you give the same advice to someone else in an abusive relationship?

Of course. It’s better being a lonely loser than a loser with a cunt.

urmom = main pc

fbi = rpi 4 with docker + pihole + 2x unbound

In other words, “censorship” – “We shape this site our way and there is nothing you can do about it.”

Aaaand that is the final nail in the coffin for me. Rip in pepperonis plebbit.

As someone who has tried both and went back to pihole for no reason other than “why not?” – it works as intended, does everything accordingly and I have 0 issues running it plus 2x unbound dns servers.

An “average” cmatrix uses around 7.6 MiB of memory and 2.5% ~2.7% of cpu on the same Rpi4.

t. Got a rpi 4 right to my left. It runs 24/7, so it takes a few keystrokes to test.

the overhead would be minimal

Kind of a “self-flex”, but one of the “#1 container” I mentioned in the OP, cmatrix (should have said image, I was way too sleepy when I posted this, but eh) uses less than 1% of the CPU and exactly 486kb of RAM (and that is on a RPI 4), so yep… pretty sure any PC (and I -REALLY meant to say ANY) will have 0 issues running those tiny, “waste of resources” apps. :^)

Blocky, unbound, and btop (which is not related to self-hosting, but its low memory plus cpu usage can be really handy on low power devices.)

Armbian. Aside from some minor inconveniences, typical from a Ubloatu install (unsolicited openvpn, cron, network-manager) its a breddy gucci distro.