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selfhosting.couchsurfing

but thankfully there are parts of my #surfhosting tech stack which are fairly settled already:

OS: #LinuxMint; #Debian (with #LXQt if needed, or #BunsenLabs); #OpenWRT

Virtualization: #Proxmox

Hardware: refurb "1-liter" #1LPC business #miniPC from HP, Dell, Lenovo, with mid to high end CPU

Network: #GLiNet and #FriendlyElec #NanoPi routers / network-attached devices; #PiVPN

Phone: #VoipMS with dedicated SIP phone, plus softphone apps for limited use

Power: 90% of everything powered from compact #GaN USB-PD power supplies; 24/7 gear backed by ~15 year old consumer UPSes with drop-in LFP 12V batteries

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Armbian Linux

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armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-

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#Armbian#Linux#OpenSource
selfhosting.couchsurfing

btw, after my experience with the FriendlyElec #NanoPi M4, I will be attempting to get and review the NanoPi M6 in the configuration shown: 16GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, metal case without LCD. it has "platinum" Armbian support last I looked.

some of these #SBC vendors have got their shit a lot more together than what I'm used to from Cubieboard days.

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selfhosting.couchsurfing

I gotta say, apart from the broken stuff when venturing off the garden path with Armbian install/config scripts, I'm very impressed with the distro after installing it and spending a couple weeks pushing the NanoPi M4 to its limit.

it doesn't support LXQt as a desktop out of the box - meaning installing #LXQt isn't a curated option in the #Armbian install script - but just adding it as one would typically do on a bare Debian machine works fine, there are few to no obvious bugs, and the desktop is very snappy on the #Rockchip RK3399.

I will try to get a #NanoPi M6 eventually, as 4 GiB RAM is just not enough, but for now the M4 is doing very well in the role I have it in.

deutrino

anyway, now that all that's done on the (version 1) #NanoPi M4, I can stress it with Youtube and the heat sink stays much cooler to the touch. and the fan does spool up as it gets warmer.

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in_sympathy

But it's not all failures. Some other customer sent in his NanoPi NEO 512. It a was nice, fast and easy fix - MP2143DJ IC got hot up to 150+° C, so I ordered and replaced it right away ✅.

Again - life is so much easier with schematics:
wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/ima

And here's a datasheet for that part:
monolithicpower.com/en/documen

#sbc#orangepi#repair
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selfhosting.couchsurfing

I see that #FriendlyElec has come out with a successor to the NanoPi M4 called the NanoPi M6.

wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/ind

I saw the #NanoPi M6 when looking at the list of boards with platinum Armbian support.

I set up Armbian and installed #LXQt on the M4 yesterday, which is a substantially slower system than the M6, and it's pretty usable for basic low-complexity desktop stuff. Youtube in Chromium with UBlock Lite is pretty serviceable.

the fact it has Armbian platinum support is a selling point. less lock-in to FriendlyElec's custom Debian/Ubuntu releases. #miniPC

wiki.friendlyelec.comNanoPi M6 - FriendlyELEC WiKi
deutrino

wow, the #NanoPi M4 performs better and uses less CPU to display 1080p30 Youtube content in Armbian stable with kernel 6.12 than it does with the vendor OS images with their custom patched 4.x kernel. this is in Chromium, with LXQt desktop, which isn't an officially supported (as in installable via 'armbian-config') desktop environment for Armbian.

I guess all the drivers for the SoC and its Mali iGPU managed to make it in and get largely debugged since it was released in the late 2010s.

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deutrino

dug out the old dodgy NVMe stick I have, put it in the hat, now the #NanoPi boots just fine.

I swear it was booting with the hat and no NVMe stick populating it before, but I wouldn't bet my life on it because my memory, while better than a couple years ago during deepest burnout, still doesn't really record nearly as much detail as it used to.

anyway yay, all the setup I did earlier was probably not for naught, and I guess the eMMC is fine?

I'll likely move the root fs to NVMe in a while.

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deutrino

got the FriendlyElec hardware-accelerated Debian 11 desktop installed to eMMC on the #NanoPi M4. 802.11ac wifi is up. the fan on the heatsink isn't connected bc I can't find the controller, but right now it's barely warm to the touch anyway.

it runs their patched kernel 4.19 (I don't actually see a held package for this?) on a #Rockchip RK3399, dual 2GHz A72 + quad 1.5GHz A53, 4GB RAM.

no accelerated Debian 12 desktop from the manufacturer yet, but this'll display my calendar and to-do lists.

smallsolar

While I wait for a bit more sun before we can finally turn solarcene instance back on I've added a bit of info to the offline webpage.

If you go to solarcene.community and when the instance is offline you'll be able to see some of the stats.

I have a low powered which sits in front of the instance and manages traffic with so when the main instance is offline it can serve up a custom 502 page

Mastodon hosted on solarcene.communitySolarCeneA friendly #solarpunk inspired mastodon instance running fully on solar power (OrangePi 5, network switch, network router). Please note that this is a test instance so uptime cannot be guaranteed!
#solarinstance
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smallsolar

@solar_bot is now back online, it is now hosted on a little which stays online all the time so will be able to fully control the that hosts the mastodon instance. It can currently remotely log in and shutdown down the instance, next job is to get it to turn it back on again

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