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[–] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Might be a controversial take, but Raspberry Pi's are pure ass as media servers. They're profoundly i/o limited, which extends to access to external USB devices as well as ethernet, and lack the oomph required to decode hi-res video streams locally. 1080p can be choppy, forget about 4K.

Pi5 occupies the unhappy spot where it's too expensive for enthusiast and hobby applications, but inadequate as a desktop PC which benefit from a bit more power.

A mini-PC is a much better fit. An N100 might even be overkill - mine has a Skylake from a decade ago in it, and it crushes 'media' activities while gently sipping at electricity.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    For a long time I was using a tegra dev kit as an HTPC. Definitely not the cheapest option but I got it for free so it worked out great. I bet you can get the old TX1 boards pretty cheap these days, and they just run Ubuntu with some Tegra mods, but apparently can also run NIXOS as well.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Well, I went for an N100 myself (and recommended it) because of its low power consumption (it has a 15W TDR), which makes it a good choice for an always on device which is how I operate my Mini-PC because it's also my home NAS.

    That range of CPUs was design to consumer less power and most x86 CPUs consumer significantly more power than this.

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