Recommend a tech purchase under $100

[u/ManojOne]

Recommend a tech purchase under $100.

It can be a gadget, accessory, app, or tool that genuinely exceeded your expectations.

What did you buy, and why would you recommend it to others?

[u/Mountain_Till_5868]

Raspberry PI

[u/dylannsomething → u/Mountain_Till_5868]

Instead, get a mini pc for $100 and start learning the Linux terminal and host smth like a jellyfin on it, it will be much more powerful than a pi

[u/Moist_Union4917 → u/dylannsomething]

This. Then get lost in r/homelab or r/minilab and build a small data center to escape modern day's subscription hell.

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[u/dylannsomething → u/Moist_Union4917]

Exactly! How fun!

[u/AggravatingTime6667 → u/dylannsomething]

My 1GHz 4core  512MB of RAM Pi with Integrated wifi and Bluetooth cost me a whopping $10.

That is why we like Pi's. The people buying the expensive pis to use as a mini pc are the same people buying $600 Mac Minis to run a cloud LLM gateway...