Yeah, as a past contributor and long-running homeserver admin I feel pretty rugpulled here. This violates the expectations set in past communications. Synapse was something very different to Element.
(This would at least for me have had a very different taste and reception if the private for-profit alternative would have been done under a different branding than "Synapse Pro" and not hijacking matrix.org community channels to promote it. They don't seem to be able to keep their hats and chairs properly separated)
One piece of feedback on the benchmarks: Using the same disk (type) would make them a lot more interesting and useful.
Comparing RK3588 to N5105 IOPS for either SATA/NVMe/USB would be interesting comparison. Still, much appreciate that you took time to share what you have and understand you probably worked with what you had at the time ^^
Author here! Currently taking requests for follow-ups you'd like to see for this budding blog where we will stand up cloud together. (Including you Intel N-series diehards, if you flame hard enough I might write something for you too ;) Seriously though I think both platforms have their use-cases. Here we get more cores per buck and less power per node)
Kudos for being the author of one of the very few homelab-related posts on HN that does not boil down to just a poor use of a raspberry pi.
I would like to see projects with more, and specifically more diverse and open-source friendly SoCs, based on Allwinner for lower cost stuff (Olimex-produced SBCs), Mediatek for higher price/performance (banana pi, and especially for the WiFi chipsets, it's about time we stopped with the closed Broadcom stuff)
A travel router build is def something on my list already! So far I've come up short with stable wifi chipsets+drivers under Linux recently, though, and that's even before I start being picky about firmware licensing... Got any tips?
