Anyone catch the news of the new slimmed down version of the Rpi5? I didn't see if it still requires a fan. I'm sure it does.
I'm considering it to be my pihole, quassel core, and finger test bed. I'll probably just get a rpi3 or 4 for that. We'll see.
Daniel
I have been running a 8GB pi 5 fanless in a Flirc-case since january. Used for "dayly scrolling the news" etc. it has been below 60 degrees C
Removing some of the unused functions of the CPU may save some power, but I wouldn't have thought it would make much difference.
The 3B+ or 4B has plenty of power to run Pi Hole, and you only really need the cheaper 2GB Pi 4B for that. The Pi 5 would be overkill as it's faster than most of my old laptops.
---druck
Not much cheaper, a 2Gb Pi4 is £43.20 and a 2Gb Pi5 is £46.60 (current prices at The PiHut).
Good to know. Right now I have two pi's. A pi400 and a pi3+. The pi3+ is my workhorse. Serves as a jump box, quassel core, and development environment (emacs). I ssh into it from my any of my laptops, mobile devices, and pi400 to use tmux for all the stuff i do. I don't do heavy development on it, mostly just python scripting. I bbs and use alpine. I use emacs for pretty much everything on the scripting and usenet.
I'm hoping, once i get a project done, to write a text-mode interface to quassel-core so I can run that in a tmux window. That'll be a big one.
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