RPi 3 with an overclock isn't as weak as the previous ones… and you can boot it over network or USB. Still, the lack of SATA and Gigabit Ethernet is disappointi

RPi 3 with an overclock isn't as weak as the previous ones… and you can boot it over network or USB. Still, the lack of SATA and Gigabit Ethernet is disappointing. So I currently use a Mac mini '06 as my home server. Used to be my main desktop back in the day… I upgraded the CPU (Core Duo → Core 2 Duo), flashed the firmware from the '07 model (allows running OS X Lion, but idk if that did anything else), installed an SSD (yeah, SATA 1 limits the bandwidth, but latency is sooo much better & I was slightly concerned about the old drive failing) and installed HardenedBSD (because this machine has 32-bit firmware, that was more complicated than usual — I compiled GRUB 2 for 32-bit EFI! And that happily boots the 64-bit FreeBSD kernel. From ZFS, even.) One downside of that machine is called "Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet". It just… stops working after a while: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206567 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206567 So my home server is currently on Wi-Fi :D Another thing is that you have to shove a resistor into the DVI connector to let the machine boot w/o a display https://soledadpenades.com/2009/02/10/mac-mini-as-a-headless-server/ https://soledadpenades.com/2009/02/10/mac-mini-as-a-headless...