Hiya!

I have a Raspberry Pi 4B set up as a print server, so it has to run 24/7. But it irks me that it’s mostly idling.

I’d move my website to it, but I don’t want to deal with it being open to the internet. The same goes for an e-mail server.

I was also thinking of running a Minecraft server on it. (Being able to play on the same world from different devices is kinda cool.) Alas, my RPi only has 4 GiBs of RAM. I worry that such a load would interfere with the print server.

Any ideas what I could run on it?

  • troglodytis@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Get yourself and adsb antenna and feed flightaware, flightradar24, and adsbexchange. Help track the skies!

      • toman@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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        23 days ago

        I use an adblocker on both my PC and my phone. Does a Pi-hole have many advantages over that?

        • thejml@sh.itjust.works
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          23 days ago

          PiHole is DNS based ad blocking and local DNS for everything on your network. So, even things that can’t run their own adblocker.

          • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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            22 days ago

            Not just ad blocker, but tracking blockers too. Also, if you’ve got a simple little device like a WiFi controlled outlet switch, and through PiHole you notice it “phoning home” frequently even though you’re not using it… that’s a clue that you might not want to be keeping such things inside the same network where you check on your 401(k) account…

  • grantorinowhiskey@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Some great light lightweight apps for a 4GB Pi:

    • Homeassistant
    • Fresh RSS
    • Paperless NGX
    • Syncthing
    • PiHole or Adguard home
    • Syncthing
  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 days ago

    I run AdGuard Home, WireGuard and a couple of other things on my 4B, all in Docker.

    I used to run HomeAssistant on our for a while, but they stopped supporting that architecture (armhf?). Also used to run Unbound on it.