I’ve toyed around with switching full time on my desktop and ended up buying an orange pi 5 plus and a raspberry pi 3. The pi 3 runs pihole and homebridge while I just use the orange pi to play around and daily drive as much as I can. Currently run Armbian off an m.2 and have it set to boot to batocera off an sd card if I want to retro game.
Half the time I just SSH in from my iPad and the other half of the time I use the desktop environment for Armbian.
Side note: I run some local AI projects on my PC and it was really fun getting some basic models running on the NPU in the orange pi 5. That’s why I ended up going with a specific version (can’t remember which off the top of my head) of armbian so I can run small local AI models.
I’ve toyed around with switching full time on my desktop and ended up buying an orange pi 5 plus and a raspberry pi 3. The pi 3 runs pihole and homebridge while I just use the orange pi to play around and daily drive as much as I can. Currently run Armbian off an m.2 and have it set to boot to batocera off an sd card if I want to retro game.
Half the time I just SSH in from my iPad and the other half of the time I use the desktop environment for Armbian.
Side note: I run some local AI projects on my PC and it was really fun getting some basic models running on the NPU in the orange pi 5. That’s why I ended up going with a specific version (can’t remember which off the top of my head) of armbian so I can run small local AI models.