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Not sure my main PC can run at 2 Amps..
by _joel 4y ago
Not sure my main PC can run at 2 Amps..
- mciancia 4y agoWell, seeing that most desktop PCs are running at 110V or 230V, I think it's quite easy to find something that will run under ~220W or ~460W ;]
- tambourine_man 4y agoParent probably meant 10W (5V x 2A)
- joshspankit 4y agoYou are technically correct :b
- catern 4y agoThe marginal extra energy consumption of running more stuff on your main PC is likely less than 2 amps.
- _joel 4y agoThen I'd need to run my PC 24/7 with no sleeping, to serve something so miniscule like DNS records from PiHole, just taking one example, to provide service for all the stuff in my front room and my pocket.
- catern 4y agoI'm glad you mentioned PiHole because it's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. Dedicating a Raspberry Pi to running a DNS server is silly. You could run it on your wifi router instead, or you could run it on the individual nodes. Either of those should be extremely easy. But practical general purpose computing has decayed (or was never really there?) so instead there's this silly PiHole thing where you just buy yet another computer and convert it into yet another special-purpose appliance because general purpose computing is so hard.
- _joel 4y agoNo, you can't. You can't load a list big enough in the memory provided on a small router and even then only one flashed with OpenWRT (or similar). There are lite versions but they're incomplete and lack the UI facilities and other options PiHole does. You want me to run a full pihole on my TV, laptop, phone, tablet? I have to administer all those and deal with the headaches of installation on all of those (if even possible in jailed envs). You say it should be easy, have you ever done it? Who says I'm just running a pihole on that too, you're making a hell of a lot of assumptions here. It's a media server, ssh bouncer, tailscale node and a lot more.
- catern 4y agoWhy do you have such an underpowered wifi router running proprietary software you can't modify? Because it is a general purpose computer that has been reduced to the status of an appliance.
- _joel 4y agoAgain, more assumptions, now it's why don't I have a more powerful router when I could be running in (along with a load of other stuff) on a Pi. Firstly not all ISP provided routers are even flashable with OpenWRT, so how the hell do you install something on there to start with? I have a hAP.ac from Microtik, I flashed myself by PXE booting the OpenWRT images, not an underpowered router in the slightest, it just doesn't have enough RAM to load the lists needed, as I said. Connection state tables in SOHO routers don't need to be large, so why need all the RAM, their inteded purpose wasn't soley to run after market, home hacked, heavy memory intensive software. You know, if you'd actually attempted this and had some valid point, I could take you seriously, but you seem to ignore everything I said, like I run multiple things on the Pi, or I'd have to keep the PC on 24/7 and the idle draw would be more (electicity is expensive here), or how I can just magically install pihole on any router, then why is my router not 'powerful' enough. Yes, I want my router to be an appliance, not something I need to curate, like updating my PC or laptop with the latest and greatest packages. I want it to be a dumb box in the corner (with security patches when needed) but I don't want to be messing with it. I have a Pi to mess around with things I want to run 24/7 but not take excessive amount of energy in doing so.