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If you have a Raspberry Pi lying around, there's a docker image for the excellent bitwarden_rs server available that makes it a snap to get up and running: https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs/wiki/Which-conta...

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The cost of electricity and my time is probably more than $10 a year.

I hear "the cost of electricity" thrown out a lot for self running a small service. A Pi uses ~2W. At $0.11/kWh, running that constantly is ~$1.93 a year. Of course electricity rates vary, but I usually find the cost of electricity to be overblown when it comes to compute. Power can be very cheap.

However, I imagine spending an hour of your time is more than that $10 budget.

Yes, my time is worth more than $10/hour.

Also, I've never run a Pi for more than a few years without the SD card failing. Even when logging to a ram disk, something seems to fail eventually, and it is sometimes not found until the unit is rebooted.

Have you looked into alternatives? I'm about to swap out a Pi 3 for something a bit faster and without an SD card, but I'm not sure what. I was thinking NUC but they probably aren't nearly as efficient. Efficiency at idle, more than compute efficiency, is really what I'm seeking.

Running a Pi with a SSD over USB seems to be the best option at the moment. There are other SBCs with m.2 storage options which look neat as well but are obviously not nearly as well supported as the Pi line.

You can make the Pi boot over USB, I do that with more important stuff with a SATA SSD attached over USB.

Of course, I have a backup of the important data as well.

> However, I imagine spending an hour of your time is more than that $10 budget.

I always find this a weird way to judge things. Are people actually spending the time they'd be earning money to set these kinds of things up?

Worse, it's my free time that I value far more than my work time.

Any time they spent is time they could have spent earning money instead. They may not have wanted to earn money with their free time, but did they want to set up a password manager with their free time either? It's not exactly a leisure activity for most users

Bitwarden is free anyways if you just need username and password stored

The argument for self-hosting Bitwarden is about privacy and security, not cost.

Forgive my ignorance, and possibly laziness, but if the Pi SD card dies do your passwords go with it?

If you care about Pi reliability then don't have the root partition on an sd card.

Yes but for something like this backups (NAS, google drive, even a usb) are a must

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