• thehatfox@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      That would have been a big improvement for homelab uses, but it’s probably considered a niche feature overall, hence the PoE Hat.

      I’m wondering how it will work now they are pushing a dedicated cooler however. The PoE Hat has a little fan but doesn’t allow for heatsink. Perhaps there will be a new Pi5 PoE Hat.

      EDIT: The PoE header on the Pi 5 has been moved, so a new PoE HAT will be required, but has not been announced yet.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve just been buying old CN62 chromeboxes off of ebay, flashing them for a normal bios and putting Linux on them. I can usually pick them up for around $30 with an intel x86 processor, an M-key PCI-e slot, along with all the low power states, gigabit ethernet, and they’re like 3x faster than a Pi 4. They come with 2gb of ram, but it actually is upgradable, so some of the boxes I have laying around have got 8gb in them. No PoE though :(