evan on Nostr: I have a full node on my desktop, a full node that I sync as needed on a laptop, and ...

I have a full node on my desktop, a full node that I sync as needed on a laptop, and then an RPi node that is currently off.

Warren Togami (@wtogami on the bird app), has written a lot about the benefits of using used Thinkpads for nodes. Cheap, readily available, Bitcoin and lightning are super stable on Linux, built in UPS (battery), etc.

If I was starting from scratch, I’d definitely consider an old Thinkpad from eBay