I’m not sure what to tell ya. A cheap ARM device is the CanaKit 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 starter kit costs $110, but the JetKVM I recommended above including the ATX adapter is also $110

https://www.amazon.com/CanaKit-Raspberry-4GB-Starter-Kit/dp/B07V2B4W63/

https://www.wisdpi.com/products/jetkvm

https://www.wisdpi.com/products/atx-extension-board

The only setup I can imagine that’s technically cheaper is an esp32 flashed with firmware, as discussed by another user (you already replied to it): https://lemmy.world/comment/20842145

But the esp32 (regardless of if you use a wire to simulate a button press, or have the device generate the WoL packet) is gonna be a pain to setup and flash by comparison to the other options.

If you already have a pi, it just needs to be flashed with Raspbian and install the app etherwake ‘sudo apt-get install etherwake’ and run it with ‘sudo etherwake [target MAC]’.

For a reliable and useful remote control solution, you’re looking for an IPKVM with ATX power control. To setup the power control, you effectively set up a parallel circuit where your power switch connects to the motherboard, letting the KVM effectively press the power button ‘normally’. As a bonus, you can connect to the video and data of the KVM for even more remote control options, like be able to troubleshoot boot issues or load a virtual CD/DVD to upgrade the OS.

For tinkerers, I recommend the PiKVM, either DIY or Preassembled. It’s important to know that a RaspberryPi is energy efficient compared to an x86. This guy crunched the numbers

If you’re looking for a product instead of a project, I’d recommend JetKVM.

Maybe the real fan was the ARMs we grew along the way 😻😸

Have you considered adding a heatsink? Maybe a fan??

The same roadblock has existed for ARM PCs as Linux PC - the mountain of legacy stuff that only runs on x86 Windows. Which is something Steam’s Proton has directly addressed.

Now that they’ve wrapped legacy software in an OS compatibility layer (Wine/Proton) and that is being wrapped in an instruction set compatibility layer (FEX) that mountain of software is ready to roll!

Best part is, valve’s contributions are virtually all being pushed upstream, meaning unrelated projects will all benefit from the work.

2026 - Year of the Linux ReactOS desktop!

I’m making popcorn for the first time CoPilot is credibly accused of spending a user’s money (large new purchase or subscription) (and the first case of “nobody agreed to the terms and conditions, the AI did it”)

I’m in the middle. At work, I play it fairly conservative, applying well established solutions to well-known problems.

I have friends whom I advise and assist with their networks that absolutely fall into the first category.

MY network is is like the lab of a mad scientist, everything tinkered with right up to the edge of breaking. My home router collapses multiple times a year due to the wonky chaos I ask it to do. Home automaton sequences that are more complex than most rube goldberg machines. Metaphorical sharp edges and loose clutter everywhere, but an unholy abomination that works better than it has any right to - until I scrap it all to rebuild it from scratch next week.

For security, Copolilot will extract your credit card details from your browser history to enroll you into this feature. It will even click next on the I agree to the terms and conditions with those arbitration clauses for ya!

Now don’t you feel safe!

You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

Usually. When Plex leaked that they were selling user data, I was running Plex server on an Nvidia Shield, a unique build of Plex that ran as a core service of the Android device. There ain’t no Jellyfin analogue of that monstrosity.

They’ll just have AI read it for them…

I think you’re part right. I think they’ll attempt a bailout, but I don’t believe Trump’s appointments and the administration they’re creating have the skill to plan or execute a bailout (or admit to failure enough to identify that they need one in a timely manner)

They’re more likely to ram the economy full speed into rock bottom, then blame an outgroup (“the Democrats did this”) and pretend nothing could have been done.

I appreciate that arch’s package manager is a bit of a monster - but that’s also what made it the prefect choice for me.

In the immediate aftermath of the release of the Steam Deck, there was many hot weeks where arch’s ability to turn on a dime was exactly the tool needed to run all the new things valve released (fast development to deploy is aur’s specialty). This advantage was destined to not last more than 6 months, as that’s the release cycle for other distros.

Nothing prevents ya from using Arch to install Flatpack, tho. It’s also really well documented at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Flatpak 😅

To be fair - this mindset is hardly exclusive to self-hosters. The dotcom era itself kicked off because it was easier to get advertisers to pay for server costs than users.

Garuda was a great distro for a hot minute. It was right where it needed to be to access Steam on Linux right as the Steam Deck came to market. It got all the performance benefits of Proton immediately as other distros had to play catch-up.

It still is a great distro, but it’s lost some is that exclusivity.

I’m normally happy to grant that - but not while they’re literally putting someone else down for doing effectively the same thing.

I’ve been randomly substituting the thorn ᚦ, the diphthong æ, the interobang ‽, and other such irregular typographical arcana into my casual writing for decades. Just took you-all an LLM to be mad at to pay attention.

Let’s not crucify people for being weird please. Nobody is average. We all have quirks.

Let’s stop ᚦis before the train gets going:

• The original post content’s auᚦor replaced the letters ‘th’ with ᚦe more archaic ᚦ
• the original author said ᚦat all 't’s were replaced in an oversimplification
• ᚦe parent author noted that oᚦer 't’s were used which were not replaced.
• I’ve replaced about half my ‘th’ with 'ᚦ’s

AI: taking another hit of acid in preparation to research the reason why the last thing it did after taking acid didn’t work out.

Yeah, I read this title, I thought this means $100,000 households are no longer above the liviable wage line. Less catchy headline, but more believable.

I mean, then you’re describing bog-standard capitalistic exploitation, and it’s not exclusive to designers.