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I ditched my Raspberry Pi for an old Android phone, and my self-hosted services finally stopped throttling

When I think of cheap, tiny, and portable hardware for small homelab services, the Raspberry Pi is the first thing that comes to my mind. And if I visit a homelab thread on a tech forum, Pi comes up ...
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Orange Pi ships an Android image that can't boot on its most expensive Zero 3W, and I found out why

The Orange Pi Zero 3W packs an octa-core Allwinner A733, a PowerVR GPU with Vulkan 1.3 support, a 3 TOPS NPU, and up to 16GB of LPDDR5 into a board the size of a Raspberry Pi Zero, starting at $25 and ...
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I turned an old Android phone into a home server, and it outperformed my Raspberry Pi

Anurag is an experienced journalist and author who’s been covering tech for the past 5 years, with a focus on Windows, Android, and Apple. He’s written for sites like Android Police, Neowin, Dexerto, ...
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Orange Pi ships an Android image that can't boot on its most expensive Zero 3W, and I found out why

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...