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Cloud services and hardware alternative
(lemmy.world)
I was under the assumption that Raspberry Pi was a US based company, but I just found out they are European and almost all made in Wales.
It’s probably the most European computer you can buy, with a massive following of enthusiastic developers creating alternatives for all the cloud services we are trying to stop using.
This has confirmed my choice to try and replace the US based cloud services my family and I are currently using.
I really have no excuse, I don’t live far from Cambridge and I guess I’ve just only ever seen Raspberry Pi content from American YouTubers like Jeff Geerling.
Since Maplin died I’m not aware of any tech stores I would go to when in search of something like a Pi or Arduino.
I’ve got an old Atom mini PC which I’m planning to install HomeAssistant on, but once that’s operational I’ll get some Pi bits and look into web hosting, email, NAS and voice assistant options.
@manualoverride @grue the raspberry pi flagship store is in the Grand Arcade
Now you’ve done it! Just got clearance from the finance director to plan a day in Cambridge for some punting and Pi.
wahey! Don't fall in!
If you're going to have a PC running Home Assistant full-time it might be worth looking into something like ProxMox which let's you run multiple virtual machines on commodity devices, even something as simple as an Atom USFF PC. That way you can do all your self-hosting on a single, dinky box