Building an Arm64 Home Server the Hard Way
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The post details the author's experience building an ARM64 home server using a RockPro64 board, while the discussion highlights the pros and cons of using such boards, particularly regarding storage and UEFI support.
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I love SBCs and ARM, but the Achille’s heel of the ecosystem is the lack of UEFI, making every board unique and dependent of a kernel/bootloader provided by the manufacturer (which is often severely outdated).