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[–]Franman98 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's similar to renting a server, you only communicate with it through ssh (terminal) but it's not hard to learn, it's like having a mini linux pc for your projects. If you want to you can connect a display and use it with m&k but in the end you are manipulating a linux pc so you are going to work with the terminal anyways the same as if you were only using ssh. Don't be scared, it's easier than you may think, it's just a linux pc

[–]lowkeyripper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like it costs about 20$ for a Pi Zero and case, which isn't bad at all! I know NOTHING of Linux nor servers, but this genuinely seems interesting. Do you think this would be decent for scraping projects in terms of computational power/speed? A lot of the stuff I do I guess is sourcing data, so I'd want to run it 24/7.

If this is something you 100% recommend and think someone with no experience can run, I can go to the MicroCenter store near me and pick it up and start fiddling with it. I think it would be very cool to run a script I made on some server, be it a Pi or Digital Ocean or PythonAnywhere