When I started on Podping I worried about load on Hive. Turns out Podping is only 0.3% of only Hive's custom_json traffic!
If this project is wildly successful it will take a very long time to make a dent in the kinds of traffic that Splinterlands pulls in today.
As far as the Lenovo P51: it's an amazing beast and this use is absolutely nothing compared to the games its been playing for the last few years!
There's actually a reasonable argument that I should be running the Lightning Node on my P51 and the Raspberry Pi should run the much easier Hive part.
0.3% Im ok with that, of course a lot hivers would try to push it to become podcasters if able, in fact there are a lot of live shows already on discord, to the point they could just tape those shows and make then podcast and noone would bat an eye xD
If really a beast of a machine, and the pi should run the easier part.
I fully support you now that i know this. I was worried that it would make a lot of begginer podcasters, and make the whole system go down, but 0.3% of increase is unconsecuential.