[10:47] <teddy-dbear> Morning peoples, critters and everything else
[16:00] <ChinnoDog> hi msalvatore
[16:02] <ChinnoDog> 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] <ChinnoDog> Just found this: http://linuxgizmos.com/ringing-in-the-new-year-with-136-open-spec-linux-sbcs-under-200/
[16:10] <ChinnoDog> SBC with 8gb is expensive. 4gb looks like the sweet spot where you get a lot of memory for fairly low cost.
[16:20] <ChinnoDog> Pi4 and Rock64 seem to be where it is at. Maybe big enough with memory compression for my use case.
[16:35] <msalvatore> hi ChinnoDog
[16:37] <msalvatore> I could be wrong, but I think they may have a hard time physically fitting 8gb of ram on the smaller boards.
[16:37] <msalvatore> what's your use case?
[16:46] <msalvatore> 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] <ChinnoDog> 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] <ChinnoDog> 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] <msalvatore> ChinnoDog: if you use docker and somehow work in a blockchain, you can probably get a VC to fund it.
[18:50] <ChinnoDog> It will need docker but I doubt there is a use for blockchain.
[19:36] <pleia2> msalvatore: haha
[20:51] <waltman> Drop-in bitcoin mining containers!
[21:10] <ChinnoDog> Not even worth it without hardware acceleration and your own power plant.
[21:14] <waltman> Nonsense! Build an array of cheap lower power miners out of raspberry pis!
[21:18] <ChinnoDog> Pretty sure the ₿/$ will be low if not negative because of the mining farms in China.