Raspberry pis are sadly obsolete now. Also probably need 2-4tb of storage thanks to ordinals

An old laptop works great. Just install a 2TB SSD hard disk. You then install Start9 OS or Umbrel, then make sure you install Bitcoin knots and not Bitcoin core if you don't like your node being a jpeg storage node.

Admittedly my last touch point with Start9 was on the old OS, but I have to give it to Umbrel. It’s a sexy UX.

I’d say definitely Start9. I’m personally running Umbrel OS on a Raspberry Pi for now, and it works fine for my needs, but long term Start9 seems like the way to go.

refurbished laptop.

Long term for lots of things Start9

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