• jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.devEnglish
    2·
    29 minutes ago

    I took an old pi and threw a flight tracker on there. Now i have premium accounts on FR24, FlightAware, and ADS-B Exchange.

    I have a few other pis which run other stuff though, my favorite thing to do is install nginx proxy manager and tailscale, then use it as an entry point to my network (this was born out of my main server being a bit unstable, which i have since fixed but kept NPM off of it because the pi is pretty much set and forget)

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    18 hours ago

    Pi-Hole always tops my list as a cool project that has definite benefits and will still be in service after the new wears off. It’s been quite a while ago, but I built an Alexa with an RPI. That was kind of cool. Home Assistant on an RPI is pretty cool. In fact, there is a whole list of cool stuff to do with an RPI: https://pimylifeup.com/category/projects/ . There’s also an Awesome list for the RPI: https://github.com/thibmaek/awesome-raspberry-pi.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      14 hours ago

      Is it easy to set up SSL on a PiHole? I wanted to get Adguard home setup (similar to Pihole) but the complexity of setting up secure connections and I’m like, “yeah, nobody in my family is going to be able to fix this if something happens when I’m not around”. 😂

      • N0x0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        5 minutes ago

        They even have a full tutorial on it here.

        However, if you’re going the self-signed certificate route, consider to make your own mini-CA with root-CA + intermediate CA added in your trust store on every device and all your services behind a reverse proxy. The only thing you need to worry about is the certificate’s validity !

    • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      24 hours ago

      For any printer. You never know what it’s doing without a firewall solution. USB is always the safest option.

      • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        17 hours ago

        It’s very well-known, Apple of all companies is the developer. It’s just used more by companies than consumers.

      • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        16 hours ago

        This is common in the IT world. Printers are such painful devices and installing drivers on every Windows desktop just adds to the pain, but by doing this you don’t need to install drivers, as Linux can serve something that doesn’t need drivers to print to.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    Tons of typical self-hosted services, like vault warden, actual budget, etc.

    But for something that old, I’m thinking more along the lines of RC cars and other projects involving the GPIO. I’ll reserve my newer ones for self-hosting stuff, older stuff for things that don’t benefit much from extra processing power.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    12·
    24 hours ago

    An IRC server would work, but I think having to deal with 32bit ARM will be too annoying.

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    23 hours ago

    Take a look at the Linuxserver Docker images. They curate a huge list of self hosted apps that is great to browse and look for ideas. You don’t need to run Docker and use their images - I’m just suggesting review their list of apps they support to get some ideas of what’s out there.

    That Pi is too old to handle any media tasks (like running a Jellyfin server), but for any low intensity duties it’s still perfectly usable.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      41 minutes ago

      I’m just suggesting review their list of apps they support to get some ideas of what’s out there.

      Ahh my people. Another list searcher. LOL

  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    23 hours ago

    I was poking around the Raspberry imager utility and they had RISC OS, which is and old operating system that was apparently fairly popular in the UK, but I’d never heard of it in the US. I loaded it up on my Pi 1 and had fun exploring it. Not exactly useful, but cool to mess with: RISC OS

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      I wonder how well that would run on a 700MHz ARM CPU with a maximum of 512 MB RAM…

      • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        22 hours ago

        The VPN speeds will be throttled pretty substantially, and low ram will result in some instability seeding, but it should run. Good thing about torrents is they’re built for unreliable.

        I’ve run a torrent box like described on pretty much every pi generation, and the pi4 was the first one where VPN speed was no longer the bottleneck.