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Absolutely! It's crazy that normies can't do this.
Go to your local computer store.
Buy a Raspberry Pi.
Buy an SDcard.
Download a file.
Flash it onto the SDcard.
Realize you don't have a card slot.
Back to the computer store.
Buy a USB adapter.
Flash the file.
Boot Umbrel.
Download 1TB of data.
5 days later setup Lightning.
Open your first channel.
Install Zeus on your phone.
Struggle with connecting to your node.
Compmain that TOR is slow.
Finally make your first Lightning payment.
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It is 2025 and this is hard?
Small update as my first node on RPi4 +1TB was dying. I had to sync it back from zero and now it is 2nd month with several crashes and pruned node around 90% synced. This is no time for RPi anymore. Do not go for it.
Use 10year old laptop with i5 gen 4+ 16GB RAM and 2TB SDD and sleep well.
While I 100% agree, since that's what my node runs on, and I too was an original Raspberry Pi and Umbrel user for 3.5 years before upgrading to an old laptop over 2 years ago, I still feel that the steps here are basically the same.
Or just buy a box from Umbral, plug and play.
