Edit: I decided to take a secondhand ThinkCenter, but suggestions/feedbacks are welcome, especially if other people are looking for a similar replacement. Many thanks!

Hello Fedi!
My RaspberryPi4B just died (8 green blinks on boot, seems to mean "SDRAM Failure").

I'm looking for an alternative with the following requirements:

• Similar price range than the RPi4B 8GB
• Similar or better hardware specs
  • Has an ethernet port, SD/MicroSD card, at least 2 USB ports.
  • At least 8GB RAM
• Compatible with Debian and Docker (so ideally arm64).

#raspberrypi #raspberrypi4

I had these suggestions from earlier toots that people shared when RPi foundation started doing shady things, but if you have recommendations, I'd gladly take them...

https://libre.computer/
https://pine64.com/
https://www.olimex.com/
https://rockpi.org/
https://www.banana-pi.org/
https://www.friendlyelec.com/
https://www.beagleboard.org/
https://www.hardkernel.com/

Well, none of them fill all requirements

Should I really buy a MiniPC/Thinkcenter?

@Soblow become the thinkcenter <plain>w</plain>

@Soblow yesssss. asus amd mini pc my beloved. they're so cool and I use one as my nginx proxy for my self-hosted stuff :3

also very good cheap alternative for industrial computers if they're in a lab setting (and you can probably get usb serial/com adapters from aliexpress if required)

@meso From what the website says, it doesn't seem to support more than 4GB RAM
https://pine64.org/devices/rockpro64/

Featuring up-to 4GB of LDDDR4 RAM

@snacks @meso I'd really like to keep a Debian to be honest.
I'm okay with experimenting on my personal computers, but I'd really want my personal server to have an OS as stable as possible, and Debian is my go-to for this.