[10:47] Morning peoples, critters and everything else [16:00] hi msalvatore [16:02] Anyone know of a cheap Linux SBC with a lot of memory? Probably needs at least 8gb ram and a 64-bit arm or x86 cpu. [16:05] Just found this: http://linuxgizmos.com/ringing-in-the-new-year-with-136-open-spec-linux-sbcs-under-200/ [16:10] SBC with 8gb is expensive. 4gb looks like the sweet spot where you get a lot of memory for fairly low cost. [16:20] Pi4 and Rock64 seem to be where it is at. Maybe big enough with memory compression for my use case. [16:35] hi ChinnoDog [16:37] I could be wrong, but I think they may have a hard time physically fitting 8gb of ram on the smaller boards. [16:37] what's your use case? [16:46] i guess there are 16gb boards, so I'm probably wrong about the physical limitation. It may depend what else is on the board. IDK [18:24] msalvatore: I don't think it is a physical limitation. Probably just not a common use case. I am considering building a network appliance as a proof of concept but the software it requires is memory heavy. [18:26] I can probably break it into smaller pieces that will fit into 4gb and/or dedupe and compress memory and/or scale it down to use less resources. [18:27] ChinnoDog: if you use docker and somehow work in a blockchain, you can probably get a VC to fund it. [18:50] It will need docker but I doubt there is a use for blockchain. [19:36] msalvatore: haha [20:51] Drop-in bitcoin mining containers! [21:10] Not even worth it without hardware acceleration and your own power plant. [21:14] Nonsense! Build an array of cheap lower power miners out of raspberry pis! [21:18] Pretty sure the ₿/$ will be low if not negative because of the mining farms in China.