And here we go.
We have to leave the Nerd on the "who hates WiFi" comment and go into the set up.
We need or want a full system capable of running all we have. That's a full Office Software Suite with heavy, connected spreadsheets creating Pivot tables to analyse data. Data we aquire. Like Tate's customer base with post codes.
We need a large storage for Warez. Just google that and you get it.
We have a lot of music creation software.
We use CAD in 3D for blueprint analytics and 3D printing.
We render underground skate videos.
We have a paranoid level of smart home gear from curton to video and face recognition.
Meaning, we do everything that will get us a few dozent years national prison time and pissed of monopoly Mega Corps.
We are fucking Commis.
That means the Ethernet port is the connection to the Cluster.
The Cluster is actually several Clusters each dedicated to one job and software or software set or storage as in NIS, Network Integrated Storage.
The great part of these tiny SBCs is that each one can have a monitor, each one several USB sticks as hard-drives and dedicated extensions from AI chips, which is a methematical CPU actually being helpful for all very mathematical tasks such as spreadsheet calculations, or hats driving servos.
This means we have to start with pen and paper, or the Dell Rack and Paint beside a normal laptop, to note down exactly which software we want and it's requirements.
Then, we use FreeBSD, "because" and it makes RAID set up easy in a system that uses USB sticks as HDs.
Planning, and that will happen with several Ethernet hubs and a lot of Pis.
Or one Dell Rack. Boring. Inefficient and IBM compatible. But easy plug and boredom.
