Why not? This is such a thought terminating statement. No actual reason.

Could you point out a reason why education, which can be standardized at least to a state scale¹, cannot be standardized to the state scale utilizing oral defenses? Also, can be ≠ is. Not everything is a startup lol

¹https://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/

You said it can be fundamentally different, and of course it can. But “it doesn’t scale” isn’t an argument by itself. In many areas, scale actually creates efficiencies. You’d need to explain what specifically about the larger scale makes the Danish approach unworkable in the U.S

For parallelizable workloads it scales just fine, and giving exams is perfectly parallelizable. Any good programmer would know that.

If in person exams are seemingly impossible in US due to scale, we have to conclude that before internet US had no education?

I just set this up at home yesterday (using an Odroid C2). A very pleasant experience so far.

I'm trying to find other services that are worth running in a similar fashion. Any ideas?

Not strictly useful for yourself, but you could run a tor relay https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay.html.en

That is a decent idea.

I have never used Tor though, and I can't say I know the consequences of running a relay. So I'd probably skip that.

As long as you don't run an exit relay, it should be completely safe and legal. The EFF has a good write-up about it https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/what-is-tor.html

Actually, that is quite interesting. Thank you for the link.

You don't have to run an exit node. Just relaying to other nodes helps a ton!

any stats on the number of relays online ?

I'm running HomeAssistant from an Odroid C2 --its working perfectly.

If you haven't checked out DietPi yet, you should. It includes optimized installations for a few hundred things (including PiHole), from Mumble servers, to MAME emulators.

I hadn't seen DietPi before. Right now I'm running minimal Ubuntu - it seems reasonable enough.

HomeAssistant looks interesting too.